Doors

You can see what elements of Limbo, The Stanley Parable, and Portal were adopted into Doors. I enjoyed the simplicity of it. It's not a long game. It's a bit of gambling to figure it out in the end.

Has an interesting setup but forgets to keep expanding on the story after the middle. The logic puzzles are decent enough but nothing worth playing in a video game format for money.

interesting game, fun and with great puzzles but i'm a little disappointed on the impossible achievement, pretty sure that isn't allowed for ANY game with trophies/achievements

Nah...

It is nice that it takes inspiration from The Stanley Parable and Portal, but I found it boring and I din't like/understand the puzzles.
It's very short, which in this case, I'm glad.

At 5€ it's not worth imo.

For the 100% hunters: very easy and unsatysfying, SAM required.

Years passed since I've got Doors and played it, only thing that I can say for sure is that this game is indeed forgettable except part where it has achievement that you can't get.
It's short game with some logic puzzles that weren't hard and whole game was made to look like The Stanley Parable (which is admitted in description on Store page as well), but even years after being introduced to Stanley I still remember that THEB ROOM CLOSET ENDING WAS MY FAVRITE!1 XD
To make matters worse, this game isn't free.

This game is very, very short. And after you play once, there's no reason to replay, since you know all the puzzles.
(Unless you go for the achievements. But there is a troll achievement that is not possible to be obtained).

This game would normally be one I would recommend. It's an amusing logic puzzle game with some interesting secondary challenges. Simple interface, consistent aesthetic, a rewarding core gameplay loop.

But this game features a development concept that should be discouraged on Steam by the community, if not outright banned by Valve.

"Underachiever" is an achievement that is generally unachievable. A random number generator buried in the game's code fires off to determine whether or not you get the achievement and without the use of exploitative software such as Steam Achievements Manager it is not normally achievable as the odds are astronomical and the exact trigger to fire the RNG is not clear. The developer has not directly commented that the achievement is unachievable other than in the achievement description, but neither have they ever on record said that it was achievable.

This tactic is a deliberate troll to achievement hunters, and makes this game effectively impossible to completely clear.

Not worth $5. Took 24 minutes to complete, some of the puzzles were really easy. If you don't feel like doing some of the puzzles, you can just walk into any door and if you're wrong, you just have to walk for a few seconds.
Also, why does it have an unachievable achievement?

Warning: This review contains spoilers.

This game, which started out as a fairly basic (if awkawrdly-worded) series of logic puzzles, seemd to hit its "something more beneath the surface" stride when you suddenly find yourself in a labyrinthine office building reminiscent of the setting of The Stanley Parable, full of tantalizing hitns about "reeducation" and a mysterious "director." But no sooner had I thought this than I was sucked back into the increasingly time-consuming simulated world of the riddle doors, which took the game through to its bizarrely nonsensical and rushed conclusion.

It really feels as if two or three interesting game premises got into a head-on collision here, and lost their better aspects in the resulting mess. The final product is a game that goes nowhere, is bizarrely paced, and whose humor seems to consist of the concept of bacon, as though this were 2010 and we were all adolescents with ~lol so random~ senses of humor. I think replaying The Stanley Parable would have been a better use of my time.

Doors is a first person puzzle game. But the first person aspect is limited to you walking over to the next puzzle each time. You walk through bland, uninspired, low resolution black and white landscapes (look at the screenshots). This adds nothing to the game. Halfway through the game, there is a bunker to 'explore' but except for getting some Steam Achievements done there, it's just a colored version of the walking simulator to get you to walk over to the next puzzle.

The puzzles are... weird. They're not easy and they're not hard, but they require you to adapt to the word choice of the creator. An example. The phrase "correct door" doesn't mean the door that you need to walk through to solve the puzzle, but a door with a correct statement written on it. This will get you confused at almost every puzzle. Some people talk about it in the discussion forum but I think it's intended, because once you 'translate' the puzzles on paper and replace it with the real-life words (i.e. "door that leads to bacon" really means "the correct door", "correct door" really means "door with a true statement written above it" and "incorrect door" means "door with a false statement written above it"), you'll solve every puzzle with ease. But what's the point of playing a computer game if the actual puzzling is done on a piece of paper, right? I know. So one struggles through it while trying to 'translate' in your head. But when you get to puzzles with, say, six doors and more, it gets hard. Not hard to solve, but hard to resist the urge to take a piece of paper and a biro, and immediately solve the puzzle as if it were a child's riddle.

I see people praise this game because one person made it. Ok. But what does that tell others about the game? We need to judge the game for what it is and especially, if we would recommend the game to other people who have never played it. Well, I can only recommend against spending money and time on this game. The fact that one person made the game doesn't change that recommendation one bit.

One last note about the Steam Achievements, especially for completionists. All achievements are easy to get except for one, which is unattainable. It's not bugged or anything. The person who made the game just thought it would be funny to make an achievement, describe it as "unachievable" (a reference to The Stanley Parable and one of its achievements) and actually make it unachievable. Really, there is no legitimate way to get this achievement. Read the discussions forum if you want confirmation.

This is a short, easy game but it is atmospheric. The inspiration of the Stanley Parable is obvious. Buy it on sale and don't plan to spend long on it.

Doors is certainly a slightly off-beat game, and one which put paid to my long-held suspicion that I'm just sheer and utter crap-house at puzzles requiring "logic". A word of warning: If you're no good at even the simplest of "riddles", be fully prepared for this game to make you feel like the dumbest ass who ever walked the Earth.

Essentially it's just a series of "choose the correct door or die" conundrums, in which you select the correct portal by way of a process of elimination...a process which I still managed to get wrong at least half of the time (so yes...dumb + ass = me)! But it's a smidgen more than that...it also sets itself up as a bit of an atmospheric mind-fuck, emulating not just a logic-based video game, but indeed a kind of corporate or governmental logic-testing simulator, complete with minor electronic "glitches" and so forth. At first the slightly spooky landscapes you briefly traverse to get to the next puzzle seem like little more than an opportunity for some nice sound design and some snazzy screenshots, but as the game progresses, it does succeed in making you feel like you've just been a part of a short-but-sinister psychological experiment, the end result of which may very well be your own extermination (for the aforementioned crime of being such a chronic and incurable dumb-fuck). It's a minor touch, but a welcome one, just the same.

Oh, and on the subject of "shortness"...yeah, it's short, but don't let my brief playing time or all the boastful reviews fool you. Sure, all bar one of the puzzles involves so few doors that you could just zip through them methodically 'til you find the right one, but anyone seeking to solve all the riddles fair-and-square is bound to take a little longer, unless they have an extraordinary natural talent for this kind of thinking. Oh, and good fucking luck to anyone believing that they can solve the second-last puzzle in under two minutes without cheating (which I most assuredly did, by looking up a walkthrough...'cause in less than two minutes I knew it had me beat, plain-and-simple)! There's also quite a few wacky little Achievements to pursue, for those so inclined, so earnest players could easily get more than a couple of hours out of this game if they don't give in to the ever-present and most assuredly evil allure of the walkthrough.

If all this talk of logic and puzzles has done your head in already, you may want to skip this one. For anyone else, the price being asked is more than fair for the product being offered, though the sitting-square-on-the-fence people might at least want to wait on a sale. Recommended, but only heartily to those mental masochists out there who enjoy a good head-pummelling. Me, I could probably go a few rounds of Killing Floor or Borderlands right now. And I by-and-largely DETEST Killing Floor and Borderlands for being so fucking mindless. But right now...a bit of mindlessness is sounding mighty fucking tempting...

Verdict: 7.5/10.

Short logic puzzle game. (The tags lie.)

The challenge in this game is to pass through 23 doors that lead to bacon - and to not pass through the approximately 100 doors that lead to death (which means retry, because there's autosave if you haven't turned it off). To help you with that, you need to determine which of the logic statements above the door is correct. (The statement on the floor is always correct.) It took me somewhat longer than an hour to do the first time. I've never seen a game like this, and I hope there'll be a sequel with more levels.

The rules:

• In every puzzle is a door that leads to bacon. All other doors lead to death.
  
• On every door is a statement. It may be true, and it may be false.
  
• If one statement on a door is true, then all statements on that door are true. If one statement on a door is false, then all statements on that door are false.

• "Indie" - yes, it is that
  
• "strategy" - no, it's not a strategy game, it's strictly a game of logic
  
• "adventure" - no, there's no narrative focus; although there is a bit of plot you can discover, it is entirely optional
  
[*]"walking simulator" - no, because you need to solve a logic puzzle at every door and there's no exploration you have to do, these doors are a short walk from each spawn point and not hard to find.

There's not much here to not like. The puzzles made me engage my noodle; the first achievement I got made me laugh out loud; the description is honest about it being short. I loved Portal and Portal 2, and enjoyed Antichamber, so I took a risk. I'm glad I did.

It's a little pricey for what amounts to a very brief book of logic puzzles, but it is attractive if not actually pretty, and has a bit of mystery to it. If I have one complaint it's that we're supposed to buy that anyone could be expected to believe the game is anything but a simulation, when everything around them is that Limbo-esque, foggy black that Unity game designers use to look arty and so they don't have to design textures.

...That's for giving me that first achievement, Mr. Weibel. You know the one I mean.

I'm also not wild about the sound design -- the sudden bangs are a little incontinence-inducing. But that is a fine nit to pick.

If you like logic puzzles, and Doors is on sale, go on and pick it up. I think $5 is a bit much to ask, but only because of its length.

This is a neat little game. And by little I mean both minimalistic and short.
The logic puzzles that make up the core of the game are based around deductive reasoning. They range from very easy (introductory) to somewhat frustrating difficulties, but they're never too difficult to get through. And if you get stuck on one there's always the trial and error options of walking through doors, losing and retrying until you find the right one.

The underlying story is thin and not very well presented, but I think the lack of background is intended.
Anyway, the game should be played for the logic puzzles, not if you want story.

EDIT: you CANNOT 100% the achievements in this game without cheating. Completionists, take note!
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-Very short
-No replayability
-Background story goes nowhere
-Bacon joke isn't funny

The game begins really simply, and you start to think that all it is is a mindless puzzle game (which actually would have been fine). About halfway through (maybe about 20 minutes?) a plot element develops, which I found really interesting! But it is shortly abandoned for the same puzzles I solved earlier, and none of them really left me scratching my head. Not only that, but choosing an incorrect door has no real negative outcome. The fact that I can try over and over on the same puzzle, being helpfully loaded right back in front of it, leaves me with no motivation to truly solve it.
The influence of The Stanley Parable is evident here, but it feels cheap. The office section of the game just screams it, but almost nothing is interactable, and the signs don't make any real sense to the "narrative" we find ourselves in. If it's satire, it's not working. I also would have liked to see more varied humor on the doors. The main joke with the bacon falls very flat. We get it, bacon is so great. It would have been a little funny if it was mentioned just once at the beginning and then you get it at the end. Instead the word is shoved down your throat so much that when the actual bacon does show up you don't want it at all.

Short logic puzzle game of the variety where you establish which statements are true and which are false in order to chose the correct door. Unfortunately there's probably only about an hour's worth of puzzles - could have done with more.

Instead it's padded out by an attempted Portal/Stanley Parable-esk inspired middle section that in my opinion doesn't really fit or pay-off.

There some re-playability given that you won't remember the solution to every puzzle, along with the challenge of going through the game with no mistakes.

For the price of a coffee I'm not too disappointed, but don't buy it expecting anything other than a quick puzzle diversion.

I was excited for this game when reading that it was inspired by stanley parable which i enjoyed. however while i can see the inspirations i was under the impression i would be going into a situation where there was no wrong answer and i could go where i wanted and live with new interesting consequences. unfortunatley if you choose the wrong door it spawns you in an unfloored room where you fall down and then have the option to retry. If you are expecting dialogue and interestingly twisting and turning plot, based on your descions, you will be dissapointed. if you however are looking for brain bending paradoxical puzzles then this is for you. not for me and not what i expected unfortunatley.

In Doors, you solve brain-teaser-like puzzles in a simulation. That's pretty much it.

Is Doors groundbreaking? Heck no, it's essentially a book of "The blue man lives in the green house, and the green man is next to the red man's house, so who lives in the purple house?" style puzzles put into a game. Despite that, I enjoyed myself thoroughly. Doors' is a match made in heaven between Limbo's sharp visual splendor and The Stanley Parable's wit and charm. The gameplay is really well done, and it keeps introducing new concepts. Storywise, Doors falls a little flat. I won't spoil anything, but the ending could've been handled better, and it just felt lackluster.

Doors is not a game for everyone. It's very short (we're talking 30 minutes to an hour) and is definitely more logical than Limbo or The Stanley Parable. Doors has little replayability due to the nature of its' design. There are a few easter eggs here and there, but Doors is ultimately a really great concept with great design, subverted by the lack of content. I recommend it, but only if there's a sale going on, or if you like logic games.

Another gem in the form of a 'walking simulator'. Doors does a good job of progressively stepping the difficulty up, ending up with some pretty mind bending decisions.

This game deffinately requires a lot of patience and logical thinking. If you are in to things like that, this game is as good as any, deffinately worth every bit of the full price.

Quite a few funny jokes and 'easter eggs' are to be found by looking around the fairly pleasent environment, which reward exploration fairly well!

Only con ive found is that the ambient sounds in the background are a bit repetitive and can become fairly annoying. Overall solid experience!