Manifold Garden

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.

Awesome! Puzzles are pretty straightforward thanks to great level/game design. Feels great once you let go and fall everywhere you want to go instead of trying to walk

Like NaissancE meets Antichamber.
Not overly taxing, but a lot of fun working through the physics.

Always worth remembering that you can't get stuck.

This game does something to you. Feels like good anxiety? I don't know how else to describe it.

Great game. I love the idea, music, and level design. Sometime I just wondered around , enjoying recursive architecture. Pure meditation with not too hard puzzles.

Manifold Garden is a 3D puzzle game set in infinite looping 3D environments. There is no story to speak of; you are simply in a strange space full of puzzles you have to solve, with no instruction on how to do so. It is very much one of those games where you have to figure out what it is you’re even supposed to do being part of the puzzle.

The core of the gameplay is pretty standard box-and-switch-and-laser gameplay, but with with the twist of the looping 3D spaces and the ability to shift gravity so that “down” is any of the six X, Y, Z directions of a cube (though you must be adjacent to a wall to do so). Many of the boxes spawn on trees instead of on the ground, allowing you to pick them up again if you lose them – a somewhat necessary concession in the often-large levels – and the gravity change restrictions means you often have to navigate to spaces the hard way in more closed rooms, whereas in more open ones you can exploit the looping nature of the world to fall down from “above” to get to where you need to go.

This game is one of those games that is full of non-continuous geometry, with levels that loop back on themselves impossibly, doors that lead to places in other rooms that are impossible to line up in 3D space, and various other nonsense. It has a rather nice style to it and the gigantic looping rooms can be quite cool.

However, there’s a problem – many of the rooms are FAR too large for the puzzles they contain, making them way more tedious than they need to be. Many times I was confronted with a puzzle, only to find out there was a simple solution in the huge level and I just couldn’t find the right place to go or to find some item. As such, the game’s style actually sometimes undermines its own puzzles, and this happens more and more as you get deeper into the game. There’s also some places where, if you go through a door, it will seal up behind you, meaning that if you needed something from that room, you now have to backtrack all the way through multiple puzzle rooms to get there – which can be very annoying, and did happen to me once during my playthrough.

All in all, the game is a reasonably decent puzzle game with some fun ideas, but the huge puzzle rooms ended up wearing on me by the end of the game, as while they looked impressive, smaller, more condensed puzzle rooms are easier to navigate and easier to parse.

This game is special, not in the same way that other games are. Some games make you feel a certain way, think a certain way, act a certain way, or even play a certain way but this game forces you to do it all, it puts you in a truly unique position. Not only that but this game is breathtaking as you step out onto the first platform this incredible combination of music and scale and majesty combine to make a truly one of a kind feeling. If you've ever wanted to play a game that makes you think beyond just the game itself, I really couldn't think of a better selection (Bonus Points if you read House of Leaves (an inspiration to this game)) it is a work of art and I could think of very few better ways to spend $20. What an experience this game was and honestly I can't believe how good it is, it is one of a kind and is magical, you won't find anything like it and you won't feel the same after you play it, so enjoy.

This is the first game that I'd point to show that Video Games can indeed be art. This is Kaleidoscope, the Game. Some of the puzzles could've been trickier, you could feel that even the developers were struggling with the geometry. But I don't think that this is really the point, the point is to marvel at the environment.

Reminds me of 'Antichamber' a game made in 2013 which explored non-euclidian geometry as well. Similar artstyle and same calm ambience. Though, it doesn't have the gravity manipulation mechanics of this game.

8.5/10 would recommend!

Super unique puzzle game with a great art style. 10/10 would play again

Simply beautiful.

Puzzles were challenging enough.

Tbh visuals made me feel sick (vertigo-wise) several times but I would say that adds charm to the game really. I hope the ending is satisfying.

Whole game took less than 5 hours, really recommend it for puzzle lovers, great visuals and audio, 5/5

This game, was an experience.

I absolutely love the atmosphere of liminal spaces, I love infinite spaces as well, they give me a sense of peace that I cannot explain.

The creativity in the puzzles of this game is next level good, so satisfying once you figure out each trick, that then plays in to the next level as well, which might bring back some elements from a former level too.

Beating this game, after being stuck on what turned out to be the final puzzle for a very long time, was so cathartic.

The ending is sublime and leaves you with a sense of awe.

For a game with no dialogue it has a lot to say.

Highly recommend purchasing this game.

I really enjoy this fun puzzle game and I love showing it to people and having their minds explode.

good puzzle game. if you played antichamber, you'll be pleasantly reminded of it while playing this game, although Manifold Garden is different enough to stand on its own. i found it to be both easy and relatively short, but it seems to take most people more time/effort to beat so maybe you'll get more out of it than i did. the music is also quite nice, and the environments are large (through use of recursion, mostly), impressive, and pretty

Awe inspiring, mind bending, beautiful, and simple in its offering, just right. Will take you 5 hours or something.

You can flip gravity in any of the 6 directions and the levels are all designed around this, forever repeating on itself when you try to escape one. It's a little disorienting and really makes you feel like there's some other worldly 4th dimensional god who designed this place that you wander through, but the puzzles are surprisingly approachable even till the end so don't be afraid.

No loading times, everything is one single sequence that you can explore freely as everything is connected by seamless portals bringing you from one level to the next with some hub locations as well. No doubt there are secrets to be found amidst the chaos.

Crazy how good and impressive the environments look when it's just cubes with good lighting. The sound design and music are also very good and perfectly accompany your journey. Someone had fun with shaders in this one...

The end is really beautiful and up to your interpretation.

Fairly short for a single play through. Well worth the purchase if on sale just for the visuals alone.

Great gameplay and puzzle mechanics in non-Euclidean space.

Beautiful design, great soundscape.

This game allowed me to transcend reality.

As you are probably aware, this game uses impossible geometry and dabbles with the use of higher dimensions. Through the desolate halls of this game I wandered in search of answers.
How does this world work?
Why does it work?
What's the point?

Let me to tell you, this game does not disappoint. As I write this, processing what I have just witnessed, I am unsure whether to even call this a game. Its an experience that allows you to truly understand a higher plane of being. The simple graphics hide a truly profound idea that has afforded me new knowledge of how our universe works.
Obviously, the first course of action now is to exploit this new knowledge. And let's just say, I did.
To make a long story short, I am now in jail. Do you know any good lawyers?

Great game with a great soundtrack, would be cool to see a challenge mode/dlc that puts the puzzle pedal to the puzzle metal.

10/10

Manifold Garden captivates with its unique manipulation of gravity and interconnected, repeating environments, creating a visually stunning world.
However, the game feels too expansive, with many areas going unused, which diminishes its impact.
The puzzles often solved themselves or relied too heavily on exploration, lacking the challenge I hoped for.
It’s an atmospheric experience, but its vastness and simplicity holds it back.

I love the sense of scale, and the puzzles are pretty interesting too! (they are somewhat easy although I don't really think that's really an issue)

Overview - "Great base game / 100% game"

There was such a large difference in the experience between the two halves of the game I have to split the review into the Base and 100% (No God Cube Run)
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Base Game - "Unique, and fun" [9/10]

The base game is such a fun experience, I strongly recommend people to play.

Pros

• Great puzzles
  
• Unique systems
  
• Fun with gravity
  
• Amazing looking
  
• Some lite Existentialism for flavor.
  
• Intuitive designs.
  

Cons

• The Tetris blocks that showed up later were too big to really see the puzzle, It wasn't hard just hard to see. Felt better to just fiddle with gravity till things worked, than to try and see where they needed to go.
  
• It was difficult to get a sense of progression through the maze of the game. Have puzzle between different god cube rooms wasn't bad and added to a sense of being lost in the fractals, but it would of been nice to see a big colored door showing the player that they have reached the next god puzzle. I regularly wasn't sure how close I was just to realizes I was part of the way through a god puzzle.
  
• The world regularly looks same same, which can add to a sense of being lost. Not bad if it was only for a time but the whole game feels like this so eventually you just cant remember where you've been.
  

Worth

• The base game only takes about 4hours, but with how unique and fun the puzzles and world are I could easily see it being worth $10 maybe $15. The $20 asking price seems a bit much so I would Wishlist and wait for a sale.
  

-----"Buy, play the base game, uninstall, leave a positive review"-----
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100% Game - "Madness, Buggy, Nightmare" [0/10]

This part of the game/review primarily centers around the achievement "The Game Is Not Enough" or the "No God Cube Run." Achievements are a way for the developer to reward/encourage players to interact with all the features of a game. I debated talking about this but considering this is an achievement I feel the developers consider it a part of the complete experience which makes it a part of the complete review.

No God Cube Run

On the surface I expected gameplay that would be inline with the types of puzzle the game had introduced me to with a few extra challenges to get around each god cube. Or something where you get around the god cubes using back rooms and solving new puzzles. Sounded cool either way. This was not the case. This was a horrible experience. A torturous one. All the cons from the base game got so amplified during this run. It had bugs that reset large parts of my progress and the quality of the puzzles dropped so drastically during this run. Every part was not about finding clever solutions it was about how much mental you have to deal with highly obscure and tedious tasks. This was not a puzzle anymore. This really should of just been an Easter egg not an achievement.


-----"Behind these invisible doors there are bags of keys...if you try all the correct keys the doors will lead you to another room with doors. That's the puzzle."-----

Pros

• Its a cool idea to find backrooms in the fractal world to skip around the god puzzles.
  
• Its a cool idea to steal boxes from other puzzles.
  

-----"Cool ideas mean nothing if poorly executed"-----

Cons

• Obscure places and hidden doors make everything feel disconnected you cant tell what goes where or where you need to go.
  
• No clear progression or checkpoints.
  
• Constantly having to retrace tracks you see so many of the same places over and over you start feeling genuine madness.
  
• Every task was massively tedious. I'm not talking move one block to get through door. I mean go find 5 cubes you don't even know you need and inch them through hell.
  
• Bugs regularly de-spawned the cubes I needed to make progress. Spent 30 mins carefully finding and removing the right cube that was buried deep in a multi layered puzzle for it to just disappear. So you have to do it again.... this happened at least 3-4 times.
  
• Game stopped let me save at a curtain point. So I had to lock in and rush through 2+ hours of work to finish so I wouldn't loose hours of tedious work I'd already done. Was genuinely worried the game might crash.
  
• I had to do so much double backing across areas it felt so horrible.
  
• You never really know where you are in anything. Its just an abyss of fractals at some point.
  
• So many hidden door.
  
• After finishing the achievement the legitimate way I found out you could glitch through doors...Which means the rare achievement is owned by more people who glitched it than people who had to do what I did. SO LAME.
  
• No one would leave a positive review if any of the tedious puzzles form this achievement made it into the base game.
  
[*]This last achievement takes longer than the entire base game.

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Conclusion - "I spent more time hating the game than loving it"

Honestly, buy the game on sale and have some really great fun for the first playthrough. Than uninstall because there is nothing more worth seeing. Leave a positive review.
-----"4 hours of great fun - 6 hours of nightmare....."-----

Though bordering on too hard for me personally, I love this game so far. I'm a massive fan of puzzle type mindbender games and am usually dissapointed when a lot of them don't pose as much of a challenge as I'd like. This one however leaves me stumped on a seemingly simple puzzle for hours. Not a complaint at all, just expressing that this game is a humbling experience for those who pride themselves on problem solving abilities and critical outside of the box thinking

One of the greatest puzzle games to ever exist. Entertaining levels with the right amount of difficulty to let you use your brain and think, and not too difficult to frustrate you.
It is short and that's a good thing, otherwise it would have had repetitive levels.
Art style is astonishing and the music is ethereal.
10/10

AMAZING puzzle game. Puzzles are challenging but not complicated. And beautiful. Where The Witness' beauty was in brightly colored scenery, Manifold's is in pastel colored complex architecture. And like Witness the first playthrough is the magic.
At first it can seem confusing but again like Witness you can't die or mess things up beyond repair. The intelligence in this game is off the charts. Unlike Witness however, there's no wandering looking for what to do. Wandering yes, but with a purpose. It replicates open-world by using infinite space. It's a must-see experience.

This game is a unique experience. If you like puzzle games you'll probably at least like it. But if you're a fan of the art of Escher or the writing of Borges, or if you're a math nerd and like topology (I'm all three of these), you'll absolutely adore it.

This game is truly something unique out there. I got it on sale, but I would definitely not regret paying full price for it. Each location stretches out infinitely. Every time I discover a new location, the vastness and the music gives me goosebumps, even existential dread at times. Makes me think about the universe. Surprisingly, the gravity change mechanic does not put me off at all; everything is done perfectly to not make it feel disorienting. It does not matter which genres you're into, with this game, you just need to try it.
Only complaint I have is it not being available on MacOS.

Very interesting and fun puzzle game, the mechanics used in this infinite space for each level, hopping down to get to the top; and even changing your axis to change your gravity and pick up certain colour coded cubes create a wonderful mind exercise. There are more mechanics in the game which you will find soon in order to liberate this world, from some dark corruption. Not sure what else to say, It's amazing and offers nice visuals btw

Short game without any narrative.

But I like it.

5/5

Overcomplicated puzzles kills the experience of this game. Its core design makes even searching for specific puzzles a bore and a hassle.
Games aren't supposed to become annoyances, boring things in which you have to scour the internet in search of very specific things.

best puzzle game that i have play so far! finally beaten the game. I really like the concept of this game that you have to combine together with rotation to solve some of the puzzle. 10/10 in my opinion! Definitely recommend to buy during the offer. Trust me it will be the most worth money you ever spend. Just that sometimes the soundtrack audio of the game is quite annoying but hey who cares 10/10 anyways! Thanks for develop such a cool game

It was incredible! Once you fully understand what you can do, there is nothing that can stop you from getting anything anywhere. Puzzles and movement become mere toys, all thanks to the power of switching gravity to any direction whenever and wherever you like.

I highly recommend playing this game. The lack of story is actually beneficial as it allows you to go at your own pace, and I know that there will be people who will struggle to grasp the skills needed to complete this game. To those, I encourage you to keep trying. It will be well worth it.

A little chaotic at times, but overall a fun and challenging puzzle game.

If you like puzzle games a lot, it's a good game. If you are not especially looking for a puzzle game, it's not the most atmospherical and adventurous game. But I like the game not being complex and not being full of mind games. Simple and makes you look at things differently.

incredibly beautiful game with thought provoking puzzles. v clearly inspired by portal in the best ways. 11/10