Manifold Garden

great puzzles, beautiful repeating patterns and breathtaking environments! sometimes the lack of directions can get you lost, as i did once or twice, but take your time with a puzzle if you don't get it right away-- you can always try seeing it from another angle! 9/10 would recommend!

This game wasn't for me. On one hand, the aesthetic was interesting and the ambient music and sound played very well with it. Walking out of a hallway into a huge repeating open space was pretty cool.

But the actual gameplay was more "chore" than "game". The puzzles were never challenging; the only challenge was figuring out where the next puzzle was. If you walked off the beaten path then you'd be flying around aimlessly hoping you could find your way back to something that looks like an unsolved puzzle. God help you if you changed perspectives while falling and don't remember which way you were facing when you started. It felt like being punished for exploring. That, along with the very long walks to get anywhere, just really turned me off from wanting to explore the world. After that, I just wasn't compelled enough to go find all the cubes. It just felt too much like work.

If you really like the idea of falling through a trippy non-euclidean world, with ambient chill beats as your only comrade, and minor puzzles to keep things slightly interested then this game is for you. It wasn't for me.

A rather psychedelic walk through space and color. Some literal out-of-the-box thinking is required. Googling answers is not so easy, so I recommend putting the game down and coming back later if you get stuck, because it is worth completing. 10/10 great puzzle game.

One of the best game I've ever played, the visuals and the musics are stunning. There's attention to details, and the feeling it's giving is unique

The puzzles were good, lots of similarities to Portal puzzles, but the art style and cool imagery is what makes this game stand out to me. Especially the ending which blew me away with how incredible it looked at 2k 144hz. Any time I ever choose to upgrade my monitor in the future, I'll be reinstalling this game and loading that ending save to see the beautiful ending visuals again.

Game took me 5 hours to finish and I didn't need any guides so this is a good chill puzzle game in my book.

Here is my review for Manifold Garden:

Manifold Garden is a puzzle game all about the visual presentation. The colors are predominately white and beige with dashes of vibrant hues. Each level is also repeated infinitely in both the vertical and horizontal planes. This means when you jump off a cliff, you will vertically loop ad infinitum until you land on something. The great thing is, you can actually see these repeated environments (and yourself) stretching off into the horizon. This creates absolutely gorgeous set pieces for you to play within.

Gameplay, there are three main mechanics. Moving cubes, routing water, and rotating gravity by 90° increments. This means you will constantly flip from wall to wall while solving puzzles. The cubes only work in one orientation, meaning you will have to rotate back and forth constantly to move them into the proper places to open doors and supply power. Repeat this until you get to the end of the stage and get the magical cube and complete the stage.

There's no real story here, not that the game really needs anything deep. From what I can tell, you are an unnamed, unseen protagonist. You travel onward because you are determined to. You reside in a forever looping world which has been infected by some black matter. So you purify the corruption by placing black cubes on trees. This then purges the darkness. Once all the darkness is gone, you throw yourself off a cliff and descend into the color explosion ala 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Overall, it's a stunningly beautiful game with great art direction. I would suggest it if you wanted a pretty relaxing puzzle game. Though stay away if you get seizures.

Weird as hell game, 10/10
If you like games that break your brain, this is one for you!
The non-euclidian geometry really messed me up, it was awesome

A thoroughly enjoyable experience! No story, no voice acting, just music and abstract reasoning and non-Euclidean geometry puzzles!

yes, fun, if you ever got that mind-screwy itch or got some resentment towards Euclid then you can let it out here.

I don’t think I’ll ever need LSD.
The game gave me all the spatial detachment and infinity I could ask for—and more. There is no up or down, the space has been unhooked from meaning. Gravity isn’t a force, it’s a choice. And all this thinking in all directions is done while taking a stroll through the temples to the geometry itself.

If this is what the afterlife is like - free, clean, recursive, infinite, quiet - I’m not afraid.

From the moment I was able to get outside the first puzzle area, I was overwhelmed with curiosity. I wanted to explore everything, look at the visually breathtaking areas from a million different angles, and just fly (fall?) around forever.

The main game's puzzles are actually not that hard, it's a lot of just knowing all the elements you have access to. I feel like the puzzles could have been harder and more complex, but I didn't mind too much. I really did spend more time exploring than actually solving, since it's just so much fun to do so.

The secret route is quite difficult, and got me to think in some interesting ways.
But it's not really puzzles, moreso trying to think of ways to break the game and unlock shortcuts. Still, it's nice that there's something more challenging to do.

It's okay. A nice little puzzle game, but also pretty empty. Sure, the infinite spaces look intruguing, but it doesn't have all that much to offer: nice soundtrack and visuals, yet limited game mechanics and absense of any kind of story. If you want to play a similarly mind-boggling abstract puzzle game, I'd recommend Antichamber. Buy this game only if there is a sale, otherwise it's not worth 20$.

This game will completely transform your understanding of 3d cameras, vertex shaders, and the nature of rasterization. The multitude of ways across these compact levels provide views without bounds.

Визуально совершенно уникальная и очень захватывающая пространственная головоломка с прекрасной музыкой и довольно неплохими загадками. Ну вы скриншоты посмотрите, это же офигеть просто, как оно выглядит и звучит

"Infinity itself looks flat and uninteresting. Looking up into the night sky is looking into infinity—distance is incomprehensible and therefore meaningless. The chamber [...] was anything but infinite, it was just very very very big, so big that it gave the impression of infinity far better than infinity itself." - The hitchikers guide to the galaxy, Douglas Adams.
This game gave me a far better impression of infinity than infinity itself.

I was following this game in development for years and the creator made a really unique puzzle game with a grand atmosphere and cool liminal areas and hyperbolic spaces.
It is a nice spiritual successor to Antichamber.
The puzzles itself are around a medium difficulty and the game is rather calm than complex but can be confusing if you are not used to the concept it plays with.

Now to speedrun the game and find all secret connections. :)

Short puzzle game that made me think of Anitchamber which is a compliment. Some pretty cool design, visually and with the puzzles. A few didn't land for me but overall it was an enjoyable experinece.

I used around 4 hours to finish the game. The puzzle is not super difficult, but quite challenging. Some level need to familiar the surrounding to clear the level. However, the looping and mirror make the level complicated. The visual effect from this game is astonishing, especially when you complete all the level, the end game cut scene is a big surprise, recommended use the oled monitor to play it.

It's OK, just some puzzles and not too difficult. However besides the repeating nature of the graphics, the game play and puzzles are also some how repeated, so not very interesting, but OK for a short game that I finished in 5 hours. If it's longer it will be very boring since everything just repeats to look amazing, not actually amazing by itself. The graphic are actually very simple if they're not repeated. And now I'm also repeating what I said......

Very fun game that bends your mind. It's incredibly relaxing and scenic with the way the levels are built, and the puzzles are actually a lot of fun. They make your brain do a think, but they're not impossibly puzzling. It's like JUST the right amount of neural stimulation before you go back to admiring the scenery.

Pretty good puzzle game, the visuals are amazing!

A relaxing, mind bending puzzle game. The art, sound, music, graphics, and level design are excellent. This is definitely one of my favorite puzzle games of all time!

Stunningly beautiful execution. Wrap your brain around the multi-dimensional puzzles and enjoy the clean geometric aesthetic. Engaging and captivating to the end.

A nice puzzle game with great visuals. Scratch that, amazing visuals!

It introduces you to mechanics well, has a nice gradual progression, and never becomes too difficult, though I will say there were times I over-complicated figuring the puzzle out :P

Also there is more than one path, if you look for it, giving this a little bit a replyability. I did not decide to go after that content; just keep it in mind for extra coolness!

If the visuals look appealing to you, you should absolute play this game. The trailers and screenshots don't do it justice, Manifold Garden is a work of art and a technical marvel.

If you're indifferent on the visuals and just want a puzzle game, maybe pick it up if it's on sale. It's pretty short and the puzzles aren't very difficult once you wrap your head around the layout of each room (which is enjoyable in and of itself, but that's more-so just wandering around rather than thinking through a solution).

beautiful masterpiece. everything was wonderful: the puzzles, the graphics (rip my gpu), the music, how smooth the gameplay was, everything. i would replay just to enjoy the ending all over again

This is a perfect game in every metric: design, mechanics, sound, art.

Manifold Garden breathtakingly beautiful and serene environment full of moderately difficult puzzles with a strong focus on the main mechanic of gravity manipulation and a healthy dose of non-Euclidean space.

Worth full price. I would love to see a sequel or DLC levels.

Short but enjoyable puzzle game. Forces you to rethink how you perceive gravity in MC Escher-esque environments.

If the screenshots look interesting to you, don't even watch the trailer, just buy it. The less you know the better.

I had no idea what to expect really, just absolutely liked the art style, saw the positive reviews and decided to jump in. Fantastic decision and one of the few games that still managed to surprise me. I think it's my favorite puzzle game together with Portal and Viewfinder.

This (whatever it is) is as much art as it is puzzle game. The non-Euclidean, kaleidoscopic, Escher-esq geometry kinda broke my brain a bit. There doesn't appear to be any narrative of end-purpose to the game, or if there is it went completely over my head. Still, it was fun to play and to work out how to navigate the weird world and solve the puzzles. There's no tutorial; you'll just need to puzzle it out for yourself, but it's worth the effort. I'd give this a 7/10.

A puzzle game that is rather hard to explain. Without giving too much away, the mechanics revolve around rotating the world, infinitely recurring environments and the use of gravity. As with most puzzle games, new mechanics and more complex interactions appear as you go along (like water and moving blocks being added later for example). There is also a large exploration portion and you just needing to figure out what you can and should do next. The game also has a very unique art style, having a washed-out palette but with splashes of colors and interesting architecture. There is no narrative at all, no text, no voice, or anything other than what is implied by your progression. Even the tutorial portions tell you the absolute minimum to get you started. A very large portion of this game is just figuring out how things work on your own.

The best thing about this game is the originality. There is just nothing like it I have ever seen. Even though some other games mess with perspectives and rotating the world, this is just done differently and it interacts with other mechanics making it unique (at least from what I have seen). The puzzles themselves are all fair and mostly intuitive… if you get a grasp of the mechanics and get used to manipulating the world at least. There are some challenging ones, but I never truly felt stuck. There is a learning curve though and I did feel hopelessly lost in the early portions of the game. It is surprising what the brain is capable of though and it all eventually became “normal”. For me at least, the biggest challenge in the game was not the puzzles, but the exploration and traversal of the world. It can be challenging figuring out where you are supposed to go, or even if you truly finished an area and should try and move on or stay where you are.

And that is the games biggest negative for me. I didn’t enjoy the lost feeling I often felt. I finish a series of puzzles, which gives me some new block, but I have no idea what to do with it. Even after I figure that out, I don’t know where to go next. And this isn’t some normal world where it is easy to explore. The world is huge, there are doors (locked or open), all over that travel to whole different worlds. You can rotate the world and walk on the ceilings and the architecture is weird. And there is often a case where you can place things in different places, but you aren’t sure which one you need to do next. And sometimes weird stuff happens and you have no idea what it signifies. This is all a design choice, of course, and I’m sure some people will enjoy this aspect, but it wasn’t for me. Still the progression is largely linear, so it will eventually work itself out if you are patient. Another minor annoyance was that the world was a bit too big sometimes and traversing it could be a bit time consuming (though you usually have options to just rotate the world and quickly fall).

So, in the end, this is a recommendation for sure, but this definitely isn’t a game for everyone. Even people who love puzzle games could bounce off this one. If the mechanics sound interesting and you think you would like some truly mind-bending experiences, then you will probably love this game. If you just want some normal, logical, straightforward, real-world puzzles and exploration though, you should pass on this game.

I am at a loss for words at how incredibly beautiful and at times terrifying this game is. I'll say some things anyway.
The frankly brutal amounts of joy as I grew the first garden, of course the first step out into the impossible at the beginning and the sheer dread and transcendental levels of satisfaction and.. mind-blowingness (?) of the end - this single 5 or 6 hour experience has been one of the most fantastic experiences I *ever* had in media, and probably beyond even that.
And god damn, this MUSIC! One of the best soundtracks to anything I have ever heard, and almost perfectly implemented and utilised too. Every element of this game, be it puzzles, visuals or audio - all of them come together into an unforgettable masterpiece. Maybe I'm gushing too hard, but I don't give a f*** - this work of art deserves all the recognition or praise it already got - and loads more.

I've replayed this game 4 times and loved it every single time. It's entertaining and challenging and everything about it, the visuals, game mechanics, the music and the sounds, even down to the sound of falling on glass, is beautiful. Hands down one of the best games I've ever played. My only complaints is that there's only one game.

Real mind bender, closest in feel to portal of any puzzle game I've played.

And evidently there's an intended way to beat it that involves not doing any of the main mechanic, so if you really want to kick it up to 11, there's that.

I beat it in 4.6 hours, I enjoyed using my brain that seems pretty good with 4th dimensional thinking, if my playthrough is anything to go by, and really enjoyed the colorful fractals.

What an incredible and beautiful game! Serene and mind opening.

10/10, no notes.

Not only am I left entirely speechless upon completion of the game, but I also feel that each word I say would be a stain upon this work of art.

Manifold Garden is a fantastic mind bending puzzle solving experience and i loved every bit of it. this game felt vary zen through out the whole play through, and if i got stumped i left the game for a day and came back with my mind refreshed and find that sometimes the most complicated feeling puzzle had the simplest solution.

i recomend anyone who likes a good puzzle to play this

Mindbendy of my liking. Only recommendation, when you pause playing, save in a in a place that makes sense, or when you'll get back to the game you will feel very lost. Super good game

It's basically exactly what you'd expect, and it's amazing. If you want a chill puzzle game where every shot is beautiful, this is the game for you. The game is short, but there are some additional secrets for those who are looking for something more after finishing the first time.

top tier puzzle game with waves and waves of ah-ha and wondering moments, difficulty is medium comparing to other top tier puzzle games

Imagine a puzzle game set within a series of nested, infinitely repeating, MC Escher paintings. That is essentially what this game is. It bends your mind in the best of ways while also being of manageable length and full of secrets on top of that.

One of the best, most creative beautiful games I've ever played. I only have a question for the developers, which did you do and how many?

Best puzzle game I've ever played. The visual seems simplistic, but the vistas and views are just breathtaking. The gameplay is awesome and the puzzle isn't that hard to figure out but requires a lot of contemplating and a need to take a step back to fully see it. Highly recommend.

Like Antichamber, this game deserves a special spot for creativity. This one is slightly shorter, and/or perhaps easier. Kudos to the creator for turning my head and visuals inside out. 10/10.

If you like puzzles and something simultaneously very chill, this is for you.

I'd recommend it mainly for the simple but breathtaking scenery. As a puzzler, it seems pretty daunting at first when it presents you with its infinite nature. Once you get a handle of that, the puzzles become disappointingly simple and it doesn't really keep pace with the promise it shows in the first couple levels when it gradually adds mechanics. Not saying the puzzles are bad, but it can't stand on the puzzles alone.
Lucky then that it is an absolute technical marvel how it'll render your world repeating infinitely in all directions. It makes for some jaw dropping visuals. I took more screenshots in this than I have in any of the thousands of games in my library.

今年玩过最受震撼的游戏之一。游戏中有两个很重要的机制，一个是分形四维空间，但是在空间陈列上不单调，有着是斜向分布的，在空间上可以从左上走到右下，第二个是重力场，玩家可以从六个面中选一面激活重力场，从而影响自身和物体，使其下坠。总之这两个结合起来几乎创造了无限可能，只有玩了才知道有多奇妙。
去GDC听了听创作思路，主创居然是自己一个人完成了原型，讲得举重若轻，可见主创想象力和执行力之强令人汗颜。

3d puzzle game testing your spatial awareness in looping environments you'll hopefully never meet in real life; despite the geometrically complex settings though are clear and accessible puzzles, so you're pretty much never thrown into unfair situations. Definitely recommended for puzzle enthusiasts.

beautiful game, puzzles are challenging but not impossible, love the music - highly recommend.