Разработчик: Doppler Interactive
Описание
Cube & Star: Warped Perspectives
"This is like the ultimate mind-f**k experience" - Robin E: The Gaming Ground.
Taking our cue from Robin E's vivid description, Cube & Star: An Arbitrary Love is now warped (hyperbolically) beyond reason and logic.
Select the lens through which you view this bizarre, colorful little world: Opt for the world-stretching Spindle view, the comforting and classic Perspective view, or the sociopath's delight: Data view.
Because truth isn't tied to reality, it is tied to the perspective through which we view it.
About the Game
"Spread color. Spread joy. Thrill to the emergence of strange new creatures. And burn them all to ashes."Cube & Star: An Arbitrary Love is a surreal open-world exploration game about the creation of life, joy and the pointlessness of existence.
Eat fruit, nudge trees, stain the ground and thrill to the emergence of strange and vapid creatures in your fool's errand to reunite the Ancient Cube and Star.
Day breaks, grass grows, night falls, stars fall from the sky, trees shed their fruit...
And across the world other cubes like yourself are bounding around, each with their own tiny opinions to impart to you... if you have the patience to listen.
As the grey world comes to life - secrets emerge from the ground: discover ancient relics, bizarre monetary tokens and personal journal entries left by cubes long gone.
Fill your void with knowledge, flood the world with color, burn the world to ashes - and watch as an ancient entity is reborn.
And relax....
- DRM-free!
- Explore an ever-changing, ever-bizarre world.
- Night falls, day rises, grass grows, and the world becomes slick with rain.
- Seek out the lost voices of the Tiny Things, unearth relics, pointlessly accumulate currency.
- Decrypt the bizarre language of the Tiny Things.
- Resurrect long-dead creatures.
- Flood the world with color.... and drown the world in fire.
- Raise strange new structures and bear witness as their occupants continue their grim calling
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7
- Processor: 1GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- DirectX: Version 7.0
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Mac
- OS: OSX 10.5
- Processor: 1GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 400 MB available space
Linux
- OS: Linux Mint. Or equivalent. You know how it is with Linux.
- Processor: 1GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 400 MB available space
- Additional Notes: Oh man. I don't know. Linux covers a broad area.
Отзывы пользователей
Honestly I can't pinpoint what it is about this strange little game that I love so much. Its not the colors or specific creatures or the sounds in the game. But something makes it so relaxing and a great title to unwind to.
my favorite characters are those tiny dancing mice that can jump up to the stars, they have their homes in the east, and whenever I visit them they give me blue cake and make those incredibly sweet sounds I love it
The "game" has no point your a cube and you have to color the entire world you do this by holding down one of the directional buttons until you make it around the world, while occasionaly hitting a tree to refill the color you have. The massive amounts of achievements that this game has are pointless and range from literally pressing a button to actually impossible. No joke it is impossible to color the entire world because of how fucked the map and npc's are, first of all the map is huge and its going to take at least an hour to get a chunk of it done, secondly some npcs also spread around there own colors so you have to cover there colors up with you own, and finally the map doesn't tell you the difference between the colors your spreading and the colors the npc are spreading so its impossible to even finsih the main goal of the game. Overall its a piece of shit that even if i was payed to beat this game i would not.
Great fun and intriguing. I want to watch a documentary about this world, or see it turned into other genres.
so, as steamdb graph says, I am the only player for this game today :/ That sick, because this game is nice though
Before you buy this game, go to it's website and read the creator's description about it's mechanics. Now ratchet back your expectations a few knotches. The things bouncing around your mind don't happen. If you are a person to whom media which are condemed as "art-y" appeal, and are willing to make the experence fun largely by the locomotion of your own inner monolog, then this game may be for you.
If you are a person like me who's world view is unlikely to be shaken to the very core by a cube talking to you in annoyingly short lived text boxes, then perhaps skip out. I went in looking for a whimsical sand box adventure driven by the complicated relationship between a cube and a star. The game is nothing like that. If something like that sounds good, go play Grow Home.
All in all the meaning of this piece is intended to be created by the viewer, as a colaboration of maker and player. This has only neice appeal and should have been wrapped up in a game that is actually fun, or engaging as to make the person interested before you ask then to come up with their own story.
The experence could be replicated and probably improved by walking around a meadow talking to your grandad about the meaning of life, and that doesn't cost $5 usd, assuming you bring a packed lunch.
Cube and Star is essentially a Zen sand garden. If you go looking for meaning, then the game will oblige with some light brainteasers, but if you want to ignore all that and just bounce around daubing the world in pale citrine and nightmare red, you go bounce. It's a pleasantly relaxing experience. The Unnecessary Collectible is Unnecessary joke gets tedious after five seconds and you'll probably wish there was more than one music track, but otherwise this is a little gem.
Pretty unique and strange little game but somehow I liked to roll about and color stuff. If you are looking for action you're going to be disappointed but if you just want to relax and just DO something, it might be for you. There is no real point in playing but to spread color and and life and just to be. I guess with this game there is no grey but black and white, meaning you'll probably like it or not at all. Well, that's life.
Generally way too abstract for me. I would enjoy it a lot more if I could figure out what anything actually did other than color things. You'd probably like this if Vangers is your favorite game.
A fun casual game. A reasonablly vast world to explore and meet various, umm "things".
Cube & Star: A Love of Life and of the Arbitrary. This is a very simple yet complex game. The controls are few and guidance is absent which leaves most players lost looking for the point. I was drawn to Cube & Star by the beautiful design and the colors; I played because I enjoyed spreading the color. The question this game brings up is "What is the point?" Cube & Star is similar to life, the search for meaning. As I spread color, I discovered the purpose of the tiles that I collected- they create life. Originally, I only payed attention to my effect on the landscape but soon found out that the game is more widespread than that. Now I watch as each action my cube takes affects the entire realm of the game from changing simple colors to creating life that changes the face of the map in their own way. This is a game for people who enjoy the search for purpose.
Mesmerizing and confusing. I am not exactly certain what I"m doing here, but it keeps pulling me back to uncover more and more.
The worst part about this game is that it has a lot of potential but doesn't live up to it. You start out knowing nothing. It tells you to move with the arrow keys and that's it. Awesome! So I go exploring and see little foreign cubes and pyramids and wormy things. Awesome! I approach one and see four little stats or something appear above it, with little symbols by each stats. I don't know what those mean, but great! More mystery! Some of the little cubes speak a different language. I find out I can collect little foreign sentences, which will help me decode the language. Great concept! I wanted to find all the sentences!
But then I found a coin. Great! What's this do? I see a menu appear on the right of the screen. 1/100 next to a coin picture... Oh. Well. That's a lot of coins. What do they do? Then I find a relic. 1/250 or some high number like that. What?? A gem: 1/75. What is this? I don't care about any of that. But that's the majority of the game. Explore new areas (they all look the same: grey until you get there and add color) and collect useless stuff. I never could understand the foreign cubes (the translation tool was crap; a programmer needs to sit down for a week and make the interface more usable). I never figured out what the stats were all about. And how could I with all the fluff in between me and the riddles' answers?
This game is absolutly wonderful. Initially I wanted to find the goal of the game but soon I found myself so wrapped up in enjoying the experiance as a whole to care if there was an end or how I should go about reaching it. This game is VERY artistic, and peppered with cleaver meta-level metaphores about life and existance, though thinking about the dialog is purely optional. Its a sandbox where your free to color the world however you see fit! At its core the mechanics involve collecting which are your way of interacting with a living, breathing, highly abstract world. As you explore you'll gain a few abilities, tons of collectables and build/burn the world as you please. Strangly enough, its by far the most relaxing game I've ever met and as I colored the world I found myself rather happy, as my progress was simply making the world a more colorful place rather then the collectables. It's been a long time since I've met a game that doesn't feel compelled to string me along with a stick and carrot, but freedom from those chains to play in a quirky, colorful sandbox with no real threats has changed my ideas of what a game can, and possiably should be. Sadly, I can't really tell you why its so relaxing or happy, you'll just have to find out for youself.
I want to emphasize that the game says "arbitrary" in its title. Is it a little slow? Yes. Does it baby the players with a tutorial at the beginning and leaves figuring out the nuances of the game almost exclusively to the player's curiosity? For sure. But that's part of the joy--a randomness that's difficult to pin down to a pattern.
Cube&Star is colorful, minimalistic, smart, darkly and subtly funny (the Nietzchean quips from the various geometric creatures make me alternate between wanting to laugh or cry), and aesthetically exquisite. It wasn't hard to fall for the simplicity of this game, and I more than appreciate how relaxed I can feel playing it without it being totally mind-numbing.
It's casual but quietly rewarding, and well worth it. I recommend it wholeheartedly to both the whimsical and patient player looking for something a little different, if not Euclidean.
This game is an awsome world/ peaceful game, it has great graphics and good music, too bad there wasn't any action or stuff but other than that it's a great game, another thing is there should be some auto translaters like you put the line in the notebook into the translater and it says what it means, like you have to press all the symbols until you get to the right one, but other than that, it was pretty much worth it
I completely adore this game! It is a very simplistic exploration game where you bring color to the world. I haven't decrypted any of the journals yet and that will be a challenge on it's own. It's one of those games where I can just relax and let the color flow. I don't usuall play games with the sound on but the music is very charming and I find myself tuning on the volume for this game. I highly recommend this game if you are looking for soething to unwind with after a long day.
I, like many others here, can't help but be strangely compelled to play. Instead of just leaving it at that though, I'll try to put what I feel in words. This game seems like it was developed to be the ulitmate abstract expression of both the 90's "collect-a-thon" platformers and the modern open-world "sandbox" games. It's minimalistic aesthetic serves well the feeling of exploration and the occasional bits of story you recieve from journal pieces and conversations are tantalizing enough to entice you to find them all and piece together the entirety of the narrative.
While the gameplay so far has never diversed from "roll around, color, collect, talk" I don't think it needs to, it's a testament to the philosophy that simplicity is key and sometimes overthought in the game design process isn't required. In addition to the of the world beng a clever mechanic, it also lends a hand to the relaxing nature of the game and imparts a sense of ownership as no two worlds will be the same and you can feel proud of your coloring as you traverse your world.
There really isn't much negative to say about the game, but one should be informed the game has no save mechanic. This is by design and I really don't think it needs to have saving, but definitely make sure to make time for this game because all of your work will be lost upon closing. (edit: ive been informed this is no longer the case and the game saves on exit. YAY!)
That's really all I have to say about Cube & Star: An Arbitrary Love. I don't think this will win over some gamers but I would encourage everyone to at least try it. What's here is something that to the best of my knowledge hasn't been done before, and the results come together in a delightful and fascinating way.
a charming game, just spent ma fiver and i feel good about it the game is quirky and enjoyable i still havent quite discovered what i am actualy ment to be doing? and am just walking around bumping into shit. but its good and hard to explain once i figure out how to play it will be increasingly good
I adore this game and I can hardly explain why; the color, music, and totally minimalist gameplay create an experience can perhaps only be described as 'fun', pure, simple 'fun' untethered by our expectations of a plot or any discernable end goal.
At its current (sale) price you'll more than get your money's worth from simply trying to decode messages.
Confused you? I'm confused myself. All I know is I'm having fun.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Doppler Interactive |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 17.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 81% положительных (27) |