Разработчик: Italic Pig Limited
Описание
Schrödinger’s Cat – это веселый, эксцентричный, неистовый и яркий платформер с кучей головоломок, действия которого разворачиваются в уникальном мире квантовой физики.
Бывшее некогда похожим на парк развлечений место теперь наводнено лептонами, вороватыми глюонами и огромными неподвижными бозонами. Зоопарк заблокирован, и для решения проблемы вызваны экстренные службы. Экстренные службы? Кот Шрёдингера, конечно же!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, italian, german, spanish - spain, russian
Системные требования
Windows
- 64-разрядные процессор и операционная система
- ОС *: Windows XP
- Процессор: Intel Core 2 Duo
- Оперативная память: 2 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Nvidia GeForce 8600GT - ATI Radeon HD4650 - Intel HD3000
- Место на диске: 2 GB
- 64-разрядные процессор и операционная система
Mac
- ОС: 10.8 Mountain Lion
- Процессор: 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
- Оперативная память: 2 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Nvidia GeForce 9400M 256MB
- Место на диске: 2 GB
Linux
- ОС: Major Linux Distributions from 2010
- Процессор: Dual Core CPU
- Оперативная память: 2 GB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Nvidia GeForce 8600GT - ATI Radeon HD4650 - Intel HD3000
- Место на диске: 2 GB
Отзывы пользователей
The game is not correctly compatible with Windows 10. I got it working by rolling back to 2022 version of the game, but there is no telling if some unfixed bugs can block my game. So be careful if you are thinking about buying this game. I would probably not recommend it for modern machines, especially Windows 11.
I'm writing this review because I just saw this forgotten gem somehow only has a mixed rating.
Platforming is alright. The combo mechanic is interesting enough to make a playthrough worthwhile alone, but the where this game really shines is the humour.
There are many games out there which try to be humourous, but I'd be hard pressed to name more than perhaps two other games that had me laughing as hard as this one. My stoic german facade hardly ever drops, but this game required me to pause for a minute or two until i could stop the guffaw.
Whether that means the game has insanely good writing or I'm just a weirdo is up to you. My work to the algorithm here is done.
Short version: this game is a sweet dessert covered in sharp glass shards.
After hearing so much "there's always a first time", this is the only game that I didn't like and yet got all the achievements - without even finishing the history.
What makes the experience bad (awful for me) are the little things that pile atop each other, that end up resulting in a game that I would never recommend.
Starting from the smaller problem, even with solid and fluid gameplay, there's no way to change keybinds, a problem given that the controls for gamepads are honestly bad. Things get quickly annoying when you start over from the beginning and notice that most dialogues cannot be skipped - and there's a ton of them.
Personally, the pesky protagonist that never shuts up and the items (quarks) that make high pitched noises when collected and used are very irritating, to the point that made me play most of the game without sound - because hearing that was just unbearable, and the configuration to remove voices doesn't remove the high pitched quark sound, because it's treated as sound effect.
To make this even worse, you cannot access the configurations (sound, graphics, etc) at any time. For some imbecile reason, the developers make you get back to the main menu (losing progress on the current area), seeing the developers logo again for 1-4 seconds (depending on whether you skip it) to there go for the options. Such a hateful design can only be intentional.
To top all those flaws the game is very unpolished, full of bugs and glitches that will create problems to the player. Most were smaller nuisances, bug the biggest (and honestly unforgivable) was the game crashing on the final area, stopping me from finishing the campaign - half an hour after when I already got every single achievement! It's like getting a beautiful sweet desert you wanted for months, only to noticed the "sugar" that cover it was glass dust and micro-shards when you finally bite it.
Most of those flaws wouldn't be that hard to solve, given that the core gameplay and graphics are done surprisingly well. At this crappy current state, giving this game to someone would be almost an insult to the person.
Bad mechanics. Frustrating gameplay. Confusing platforms and enemies hit boxes.
Not worth the price.
I went into this game LOVING IT. Today, I'm so incredibly frustrated I hardly want to play ever again, but begrudgingly will to finish achievements at a later point. I will begin with positives.
I really like the art style, I like the cool environments, and the physics-related humor is (mostly) top-notch. I enjoy the collecting without really having to collect mechanics, and I (typically) like the puzzles. The voice acting is also very good.
Now, the negatives.
This game is extremely buggy. I didn't have the same issues on my first playthrough of the game, but on the second, it was practically unplayable. I would fall through the floor of levels, I would glitch through walls, I would break the game so unbelieveably frequently that it really soured the gameplay. Also, with the puzzles being the way they are, there is so little room for error. If you make a mistake, even a small one, you have to re-do previous puzzling sections multiple times.
These two factors, in my second playthrough, worked together terribly. I would glitch to parts of a puzzle that I wasn't supposed to be in, and despite having the pieces would have to restart. This kind of tediousness was horrible for me.
My other main gripe is the use of a point of no return. I tried avoiding the point of no return at the end on my first playthrough, but somehow got stuck and ended up not being able to 100% the game, despite me being so close. This discouraged me so much, I didn't even finish.
Now, on my second playthrough, I am rage quitting because at the second "boss" segment, the game refuses to give me the proper speed, so I am stuck in a loop of constantly dying. I have a hard time believing this is my PC's fault, because I didn't have this trouble the first time. So now, I can't even go back and complete the game like I wanted to.
Gosh I wanted to love this game, and the first time I played it I did! But after this, I don't think I have the heart to even finish it. If you want to spare yourself the heartache of wanting to love a game but ending up hating it, avoid this game. If you want a decent puzzle-platformer that you don't expect much out of, buy this on sale.
If you want a game with cats, platforming, puzzles and a day out at the Particle Zoo, you can't go far wrong with Schrodinger's Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark.
To start with the good things - the tutorial introduces you to Schrodinger's Cat and the issues the Particle Zoo is having and gets you familiar with the different Quarks you'll collect and their quirks (I had to, I'm sorry). The different quarks can be used to help you navigate the challenges you'll come across – 3 Up/Movement quarks will combine to make a helicopter that will lift you, 3 Bottom/Construction Quarks will make a platform to stand on, 3 Down/Destruction Quarks will make a drill that removed ground from beneath you and 3 Top/Protection Quarks will make a protective bubble around you. Why 3? You can combine the quarks together in ways that are fairly intuitive – Combining 3 quarks of Up/Movement and Down/Destruction will create a missile you can fire. Or Up/Movment, Down/Destruction, and Top/Protection will make a bomb you can throw. There's 14 combinations in all and they use the appearance of the different quarks to help make them more memorable. They can be seen at any time in game at any time with the start button once you've done them so if you forget one you can easily check.
The game gives you free platforming areas between the different 'enclosure' areas (which are much more puzzle based). It's relatively easy to build up a small army of quarks to navigate the areas and take on the (optional) task of capturing all of the rogue particles and although they work well for a chance to practice different quark combinations it felt like a lot of backtracking between the enclosures. That might have been that it seemed to give me very similar areas but that might be bad luck on my part with the game's random generation of the zones or might be because of the similar appearance of the terrain.
The puzzle sections are a welcome change from them and my favourite part of the game. More limited in quarks but interesting problems to overcome and thinking time isn't an issue. The later enclosures need a little more thinking but it's still satisfying to overcome.
The last main section type is chase style encounters that will challenge you to find the right combinations quickly to avoid being eaten by the creatures that are chasing you. Depending on how good you are at these, they'll either be very fun or highly frustrating as you find yourself back at the beginning of the section, going through the same motions to get back to the part you messed up.
There's a lot of humour in the game and unique designs for each of the quarks and characters in the game that make it easy to tell things apart and help keep things fresh as the plot progresses.
The game is voiced by A.J. LoCascio and although he has the task of voicing all the characters he does an excellent job giving everyone their own character and style. I honestly didn't realise it was just one voice actor until seeing it in the credits.
I only encountered two bugs during my playthrough, one was just visual at the end of a chase section where it the game didn't appear to load the rest of the chasing creature. The other was an instance of the game not making enough quarks in a puzzle section but it was easily remedied with reloading the checkpoint. Certainly nothing serious in my experience.
I completed the game in under 8 hours but I enjoyed it, it's probably closer to 5/6 hours if you're good at platforming games. I'd certainly recommend it on sale but it's not a bad deal even at its full price.
Being a Physics nerd I was really looking forward to having some fun with this game. Unfortuntely, I couldn't even make it an hour. The voice acting and sounds are soooo cheesy and annoying it was just unbearable. I think if it wasn't for that the game would have been a lot of fun. Unfortunately, unless you are five, I cannot recommend this game.
Irconically this game has pretty bad gameplay physics and very unstable physics overall.
The worst is that you may ghost through wall very often when your frame rate is low (happened to me three times in 10 minutes). The game is just buggy as hell and when you get stuck and want to reset your player, you either are lucky and fall out of the level and die, or you cannot move out of the wall anymore and have to start over the whole level.
If you consider buying, be aware that it might not run on your system despite being able to meet the requirements. Apparently there's a bug in the game that seems to affect random machines - happened to me and I couldn't figure out how to solve my problem.
I would recommend this game as a cautious recommendation at best. The combo mechanic with okay-if-floaty platforming controls makes for a fun, original experience.
The real question you should ask before purchasing is how much can you stand ear-grating one-liners or annoying personalities? Also, do you like physics?
Schrodinger's Cat: The Procrastinator of Videogame Character Abilities
Like most cats, they don't do the work but get other people to do the work for them. This is how Schrodinger works with the combo ability system.
Here you combine three quarks (out of four) in order to result in some combination. There are fourteen total and nearly all of them are well-used throughout the game.
You can make a parachute, a bubble-shield, a missile, a decoy disco machine and even a helicopter. The four quarks are given to you from the start, and they serve as Schrodinger's abilities (besides his attack) and as his groupies.
On a controller, the shoulder buttons and triggers use one type of quark. On keyboard they have their respected keys.
Although cumbersome at first, you'll be able to make these combinations fast like in a fighting game. You'll learn the most useful combos not too long in the HUB world, and the puzzles allow for some failure. If you ever forget them, you have all combos listed in the pause menu.
In-between the smaller, focused areas, the game has this "HUB-world" (which I use in quotations as there's nothing to do other than collect particles). Besides the optional fetch-quest, the area serves as a means for the player to learn on his/her own pace with the superflous amounts of quarks.
All of these gameplay ideas sound wonderful on paper, and the tutorial isn't unclear for people not familiar with quantum mechanics nor too long for seasoned platformers. Unfortunately, the HUB areas are my main gripe with this game.
Mechanics Are Best When Quantized
Ironic enough, a game about quantum mechanics is the most fun when you set enough limitations on all the probabilities you can have. Only then do you see the game's potential.
The procedurely generated layouts are a nice touch for replay value, but the HUB environments aren't interesting to explore as the only objective is to collect X amount of each particle.
Thankfully, you do not have to collect everything. The only time you need to collect everything in the area is when the game has some arbitrary reason to get progress. The only other thing you need to keep an eye out for are the Charm Particles to finish the game.
When you are in those "dungeon" areas with a limited amount of quarks (which is limited by the checkpoints) is where I think the game works best.
The abundance of quarks offers no challenge to get around the generated HUB. At worst, it means you may have to backtrack if you cannot progress without one type of quark. At best, it makes for a tutorial at your own pace in disguise. This is almost a different game to when you're in the dungeon areas.
When limited, you have to think how to make the best with what you got. You learn about some combos' synergy and how to better reserve each type of quark. The checkpoints enforced a difficulty scale rather than some arbirtrary impasse, and because I had so many spare quarks that means there are multiple solutions too.
If the game was only of these dungeon areas and running-sections, then I think you'd have a well-loved classic. It would be a shorter game, admittedl, if there wasn't more content added in to compensate, but it more polished experience... Until the end boss.
Nothing about that fight had anything to do with Schrodinger's Cat's mechanics. Why couldn't the game ended with something that fits the game's focus and its mechanics?
Aside from a weak, annoying boss-fight and a game that took the focus away from what works, the biggest problem about Schrodginer's cat is its dumb smart humor.
Want a formula for this game? Η(umor) (WH)Ψ? = i h(ate) to derive Ψ(our) time
I mean no disrespect to Team 17, but I cannot tell whether you hate your jokes or if you like how bad they are. I love bad humor, if done right, which this game does not. (And I know this is a subjective section. but it's the main thing that turns people away. Not the science.)
For starters, most of these puns are not puns. At worst, they're nonsensical combinations of words. "Scienterrific", "Phystasticular", "Coola-boola", and "Fists of Feyman" (actually, I like that last one; keep it). Most of them are not funny. Combining physics/science-stuff words with other words is a really, really lame gag. And I think you know this.
Second, references are not funny without giving some context/set-up first. Why should I laugh about the Schrodinger Equation or Einstein's energy equation of light/photons generated on the map? (Also, where are those photons anyway? And the neutrinos? And the gamma-rays? And all the other subatomic particles that could add in more puzzles and cool combinations?)
I did at least enjoy one clever joke, the answer to "Why do problems always come in threes?", because the game set it up and the answer came at the right time for a good delivery. Not an explanation in the tutorial for how many combos there are represented by a series equation.
The one thing this game taught me is that there is such a thing as dumb smart-humor. As another user stated,"The game is good and is not good. Only by playing will you find out." Similarly, I cannot decide whether most of the game's "jokes" are self-aware of how bad they are or if they think all these one-liners are "smart" jokes.
If Poe's Law could ever be applied to science, this game would walk that line and keep you guessing at every turn.
Please Don't Skin this Cat
As much as I'm giving this game a lot of flak on its type of humor, I think people are pushed away by it, not the gameplay itself. If the game's humor is grating to you, I would recommend trying this game on a discount. The gameplay doesn't take long to get into with the first two hours.
I think the one-liner superhero Schrodinger's Cat doesn't have to change. He is amusing as a trope-heavy cliche when he is poking fun at himself and others. His design is a nice color-compliment scheme. I also like how detailed he is when you change his forward direction from left-to-right. (His color-scheme flips.)
The Particle Zoo is a wonderful setting that captures the subatomic chaos of the microscopic world, if a little bland because of the reused textures and layout of the HUB world. I also felt some of the wierdness, though wonderfully expressed in the setting and characters, could've touched on things outside of the nucleus.
For example, I would've liked to explore the electron-orbital paths in a spacey-manner with a quantum of energy, perhaps with emitting and absorbing photons. (And because you need specific energy values, you would have to solve some puzzle to get that solution.) That would be a cool QM puzzle idea and educational without being a boring lesson.
With the quirkiness and seemingly endless potential for a subatomic world setting, I think the core mechanics could still be built upon what we have now for another game. Hopefully then, with a more focused game, we can have a great newcomer for platformers.
If he says "Coola boola" one more time I'm gonna cry
It's definatly a fun, easy feeling game. Voice acting is funny, and the controls are very smooth. Sound effects and music aren't anything special but they're good nontheless!
My only big gripe is the graphics are so...plain. And level designs don't make a lot of sense and feel really REALLY lazy. I dunno if it's jumbled like that on purpose, or their just simple tile sets but it really takes away from wanting to play for more than 10 - 30 minutes at a time because I'm visually bored.
I love the concept of combos to do your platforming, but feels oddly excecuted. Proabably due to the poor level design.
In short, it's worth it if you can find it on sale! Otherwise, you're not missing too much.
Changed it to reccomended, as I find myself actually going back and playing it a bit more! My complaint with the environment still stands, but I like the puzzle solving!
At the title screen I saw: TEAM17 and I thought: "Oh, this will be good." Team 17 also was involved with games from the Worms series (which I love). They did not disappoint:
It's a great platformer with an interesting "combo" system that uses quarks you find along the way. It has a simple start tutorial. I haven't beaten the game yet but I am having a lot of fun solving the puzzles it is presenting me. I have noticed it has a "restart area" option (pressing ENTER) and I did not notice a life counter (so I assume infinite lives). So there's really not a reason to stop playing if you can't beat a puzzle.
It's probably one of the best purchases I have ever done in this account, nice change from games like CS:GO.
This astrophysics major definitely recommends this game. The humor is AMAZING, and I definitely love the theme--there aren't many games with living subatomic particles out there.
The game provides a good platforming challenge, especially the "RUN!" levels, where you're forced to come up with combos on the fly.
There are a few design elements that are a bit strange, though. I can understand why the neutrinos are invisible, but where are the photons? You got gluons and W & Z bosons, but no photons?! Also I have NO idea why a tauon would eat you when it has zero size to begin with....and the strange matter apocalypse is ruled out by cosmic ray collisions. Just saying.
But video game wise, this thing is really really good.
Now I just have to pitch that idea for an RPG where you combine atoms into molecules and make them fight each other...
This is one of my first reviews and it may be positively up quarkian in nature. I caught a fleeting glimpse of the title of this game and I knew that it must be mine; it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. The humor and style of the game feels like a nostalgic take on platformers from the 80's - 90's, such as Earthworm Jim / Gex / Star Fox, while the modern upkeep on the gameplay and art style is sophisticated and smooth. As big a draw as the wise cracking protagonist, the spiffy art, or the silky gameplay may be the best part of this game by far is the SCIENCE NERD HUMOR OMG!
If you are a nerd, a geek, a science dork, if you ever knocked someone out with a science textbook before.... this is the game for you! It's challenging, engaging, and dear fluffy Cthulhu funny.
Super cute game :D kinda slow at first but once you really start getting into the gameplay mechanics its really fun. Lots of funny little characters. A good casual platformer for someone who wants to enjoy the game and solve some puzzles rather than be frustrated. I got this game on sale but its totally worth the price.
Phenomenal game. Has the humour and the writing of a Sam and Max game with the visual animation quality of a Rayman game, all within an outstanding puzzle platformer.
One of the best games of the summer, if not of 2014.
Download it now and brace yourself for the awesome!
Great puzzle platformer with a silly sense of humour. This game does not hold your hand - in a great way. The puzzles are at times fiendishly difficult, but all solvable within the design of the game, often in a variety of different ways. The humour and voice acting are pretty fantastic as well, thanks to awesome voice work by the guy who played Marty McFLy in the Back to the Future video games. Very fun game, especially if you're up for a challenge.
Its fun, the science jokes and voice acting are both awesome, and the game runs smoothly and beautifuly. If only the game wasn't so buggy that it was unplayble. Quarks that were nessasary to complete the level would not spawn, enemies could jump out of the world to avoid me, and at high speeds I could clip through walls. A few patches are needed badly, but if the bugs are fixed this game would be worth the money!
EDIT: no.
As I breezed my way through the game, I realized that this game is not worth it. Having just finished the game, most of it was moderatly easy (with execption to the runner levels). However, the final boss and the ending cutscence were terrible. More glitches, more going through walls and overall more cheap deaths from the running sections really soured this game for me. Also the final boss was defeated using none of the mechanics I learned in-game, which is not how any game should end. I should also add that the recent patch didn't even fix a single bug (that I noticed).
While the game has some redeming factors and a high framerate throughout (even when I cranked up the options) it was utterly a waste of my time.
After downloading on a chance I might like this game I thought I had made a big mistake after my first couple of games and I nearly put it down as another wish I hadn't of bothered games. But the more I played the more I liked it and couldn't leave it alone.
If you like puzzle platformers give this one a go it does grow on you.
It's a downright shame this doesn't have more publicity then it does, because this game is downright fantastic. Wonderful design decisions all around, from the very clever use of the open world puzzle platforming combined with a resource management mechanic (if you want to look at it like that) to make the player think on their feet when facing their challenges. Combine that with a nerdy sense of humor combined with well done voice acting, and you have a game that you should pick up.
I have more thoughts on the game here: http://youtu.be/Es-Kfibrc8A
Update after completing the game. Although this list is a lot of negatives, I think the game was definitely worth its asking price. It really needed some ironing out, but the execution is otherwise amazing.
+ Voiceacting is good. Cartoony as hell, but good.
+ Art style is cool. Also cartoony.
+ Animations are fairly smooth.
+ The setting and story are both unique and GREAT, and I wouldn't hesitate to describe the whole game as "cute."
+ The puzzle solving mechanics are very interesting. There's a lot of unique abilties you have, and they each have a different cost. There are usually several different ways to approach every situation, and you have to think ahead to avoid wasting certain resources.
+ Failure doesn't usually mean a lot of restarting - it usually means you'll have to try again a different way, since you've wasted resources.
+ The difficulty ramp has a good, satisfying feel to it.
+ I love and look forward to the dialogue. It can be cheesy, but it knows that.
+ The characters aren't incredibly remarkable, but they certainly aren't boring templates.
- VERY buggy. Enemies can get stuck in unreachable places, entire areas can become uncompleteable(although you can reset an area if that does happen), green goo is sometimes instadeath, sometimes not(something that I speculate has to do with getting stuck between non-square hitboxes), there are several buggy animations and behaviors in some enemies, and yet other enemies' movement is too wonky for a perfect clear to be worthwhile.
- Damage is not always properly communicated. If you're not paying attention, you won't notice that leptons and bombs actually do hurt SC. Sometimes, green goo makes it look like it didn't damage you because nothing really happens - but it did.
- The procedural generation of the main areas is unfortuantely not quite as interesting as it sounds, because you get so many resources that there is little to no challenge in any of the puzzle portions - it's all platforming, navigating and not being chewed up by electrons.
- SFX are just a tad annoying.
- Camera movement is awful in some zones.
- Jumping control takes a while to get used to. You can usually stop on a dime, but you gain momentum in a very unstable manner.
- It feels like there's a lot of unused potential in the way antiquarks act.
- Short play length - about nine hours if you're not unrealistically going for a perfect clear. Fifteen to twenty hours in that case.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Italic Pig Limited |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 15.01.2025 |
| Metacritic | 59 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 68% положительных (44) |