Manifold Garden

Very nice little puzzler that showcases many different kinds of spatial-style art.

I am not sure how to respond to the acid trip ending, but this game is a very fun puzzle game with weird mechanics and beautiful visuals.

Wonderful and inspiring. The puzzles aren't "hard" but they make up for that in uniqueness and beauty.

7/10

If you love puzzle solving then this game will definitely give you one. The puzzles are not that hard and are pretty straight forward, but the combination of changing gravity and the non-euclidean environment just adds a whole new experience. Besides the puzzle solving, the music and the atmosphere just makes the game so beautiful to look at, but beware this game will have flashing lights.

This one is really, really good. In a lot of ways it reminded me of another exceptional, surreal puzzler called Antichamber, and because we are all the universe experiencing parts of itself subjectively if you're reading this then take it as a sign from the cosmos to play both.
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Manifold Garden has a neat way of stretching your spacial reasoning and perception. The game really encourages you to think without directionality, a lot like a 6dof space sim. This isn't that though, I'm just sayin. Also, it looks 100% pretty.

I fell in love with it fairly early on when I was traversing a flight of stairs and I lost my sense of direction to the point where I could no longer determine if I was going down or up. Huh? How does that even happen? Wat.
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The difficulty is dialed in pretty well, in that there's defo some headscratchers that feel satisfying to crack, but at no point did I feel overly frustrated. There's also no dexterity based challenges, which I often find annoying when they insist on shoehorning them into puzzle games for whatever reason.

The singular blemish upon Manifold Garden's expansive and frightening perfection is a particular puzzle when you first encounter the monolith tetris pieces. There's a leftover yellow cube with seemingly no purpose or function.
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I mean it's prolly nothing, but god damn I cannot get the fuckin thing out of my head. Why was it there??? Just a red herring? Was it purposefully planted to confuse players? Or does it hold some deeper secret? It can power a massive barrier that seems comically oversized so there might be something more to it. The extent to which that thing occupied my mind was really kinda funny. Maybe that was the point. idk.

Spiral out.

Fantastic soundscape, engaging puzzle and gorgeous visuals.

Looks hard, but actually easy to solve. You just need to find it.

Solid puzzle game. nothing will stump you too hard for too long, but the solutions are still satisfying enough to work out.

Wish I'd taken some drugs before the ending lol.

100% guaranteed to give you a headache (complimentary).

Reminded me of 2001: A Space Odyssey at the end . More impactful since it's an interactive medium. I don't know; whole game's a lot of imagery to process! So yeah, will 100% give you a headache (complimentary).

This game is rad. The actual puzzles are pretty straight forward with navigation through the non-euclidean environments (which seem mostly like interlocking and nested 3-Torus for my math friends), being the real meat of the game. And what environments they are! The visual design is incredible. And while one might think they'd get lost wandering around a four dimensional donut, the pathing is good and I always seemed to find my way to the right spot without too much trouble.
Overall, just a really good super chill time.

When I'm enjoying a game, I'll feel the desire to set aside time in my schedule to continue it. I didn't feel that with Manifold Garden, and when I forced myself to return to it for merely my second play session, I couldn't be bothered to complete the next puzzle, which led to the realization that I had no desire to keep going. I don't know why, because normally this game seems like something I'd enjoy. But then again, I didn't love Antichamber so maybe this subgenre of puzzles just doesn't do it for me.

Great game. There was literally only 2 tiny things I didn't like about this game which were that it calls the creation cubes god cubes in the achievements and that the credits are unskippable. Other than that the game is great. 100% not for everyone but if you like puzzles and visually pleasing games, this game is a great pick

art is fun. but everyone gets stuck in the middle by poor design. not even a puzzle. just the direction is poorly designed. all real puzzles are way too easy. did not have the fun I hoped for.

This game is so cool. Like honestly one of coolest experiences I've had. the infinite rooms are crazy and the puzzles are fun but challenging. I've only finished the first two levels but, crap man, this is crazy. please, please buy this game, if you like puzzles or physics or pretty games or if you just want to have a new experience. this game rewired my brain somehow, for hours afterward i was just thinking about the gravity reversal thing. this game is amazing. please buy it.

This is something else.

13 hours of pure 3D puzzling bliss in a peaceful sci-fi mentalosphere.

As a kid, when you first looked through a caleidoscope and you wondered how it would feel to actually walk there - this is it.

Bonus points for quality and reliability: not a single bug/glitch/framedrop or any other annoyance whatsoever.

Can't recommend this one enough.

10/10 absolutely phenomenal artistic, reality-bending puzzle game! Highly recommended!

Finished this game in on 6h sitting (casually taking breaks for food etc).
The colors are amazingly vibrant and lush, the difference between yellow and orange in puzzles could be better. The visuals of the game are jaw dropping in a miniumalistic way, purely based on how infinitely vast the spaces each level exists within are. The MC Escher-like quality of this game is truly next level.

The puzzles were VERY clever, though throughout the game, the difficulty sometimes goes from a 3-5 to a 9-10 and then back again...I couldn't tell what the progression was going to be from moment to moment, room to room. The yellow level was by far the most difficult to figure out how to complete (at the end). The devs definitely like to mislead you with colors in the more advanced puzzles, so take a breath and think simple about what ones there are!

The sound design and music are great, very fitting for the game, though nothing that really wowed me (sorry fellow musicians! ive been spoiled by Risk of Rain 2 and Windblown's epic OSTs lately). They are very fitting and keep you in the ambiance of the game which is the entire point, so between these two opinions I would give it a solid 8/10.

There's no story, no explanations, no characters minus some birds (at one point you can literally see the cube youre holding repeating off in the distance just floating in mid-air), and the ending was mind-bending, too. It was worth the fun puzzles to see for sure - and I really enjoyed the thrill of solving a difficult puzzle! I think the overall progression of the puzzles could be cleaned up in any kind of sequel or DLC, but considering I just realized at the end credits that this is from 2019, i doubt that is happening.

Well worth the $10 on sale!

What a trip!
The mechanics are pretty simple and puzzles are a decent challenge but not terribly hard.
If you liked playing it those spacious concrete art galleries as a kid you will love the minimalist designs this game takes.

Puzzle game where the only hard part is finding the correct place where to put your cube to. That's not a puzzle: that's sh!t level design.

a simple, beautiful puzzle game that sacrificed replayability and difficulty for aesthetics. worth a playthrough if you can get it on sale

Highly recommended if you're someone that loves puzzle games. Additionally, the graphics and mechanics of this game are super smooth and gives the game an abstract vibe. The music is also really good and the game is very fun to speedrun too (if you're into that).

Amazing game! Relatively easy puzzles in the main route, but unique.

The best way to describe it:
You move by solving mostly gravity puzzles through a geometrical landscape in a 3d world in which every dimension consists of 2 opposite planes. (6 total: left-right, up-down, forward-back).
You can shift through planes by 90 degrees when touching a wall, and then gravity shifts with you (the wall becomes your new floor), and objects on different planes become frozen in time. (except multidimentional objects)

The most amazing part is the world exists in a pocket dimension, wrapped around itself, in a sense that if you fall down, you will end up from above, and if you run to the left (or forward), you will arrive from the right (or back).

This game is beautiful. It's constantly mesmerizing, and honestly there were various moments where I felt in awe at the sheer beauty of the game. The colors, the sound design, the fact that everything is just... infinite, all of this caused my jaw to drop throughout the game. It may sound like I'm going a bit over the top, but this game is genuinely art. Especially the ending sequence. The vibe this game emanates is such a weird feeling. I think the best word for it is just awe. Awe at the insane vastness of the game. I'll say it again, this game is art.

I haven't even gotten to the gameplay, but that gameplay is a great compliment to how trippy and beautiful the game already is. There were various moments where I was left utterly confused, as if I had genuinely just witnessed a glitch in the game or something. But no, those stairs leading up? They were going down too. Oh, and also nowhere. You're in the same spot you started. The puzzles are mind-bending, yet simple enough to solve once you change the way you think about the game and 3D space as a whole. The puzzles also incorporate the infinite-ness of the game very well, with many puzzles' solutions having something to do with falling through the infinite copies of the level to reach an area otherwise unreachable. There was also a nice variety of puzzles, with ideas slowly building on each other until they culminated in the final level.

Manifold Garden is art. And if you're planning on playing it, approach it from that lens. Take things slow, appreciate the beauty of the game, and maybe take a few screenshots. I know I certainly did. The gameplay is fun, but more than anything the game's beauty is what will blow you away.

It's very interesting conceptually but it feels like it needs to bake a bit longer until it's a fully realized game. Most of the puzzles consist of just finding the key and bringing it to the door. A few of them are actual puzzles. Some of the levels are just a lot of wandering around looking for the next thing to do.

Marvelous Atmosphere!
Have you ever wondered what consiousness could be in a unmaterial world?
This is probably one of the closest experience of "infinite spaces and "fractals" a human brain can imagine. Some puzzle are challenging (no grind yet) while other are easy going. Headphones adds depth and I feel like this game paired with VR could send you higher than a microdose.

Intricate Escher-inspired puzzler set in infinitely recursive (i.e. looping) worlds where you control gravity. Occasionally brain melting, frequently psychedelic, and doesn't outstay its welcome. Very trippy and very enjoyable. Difficulty is also not too punishing either.

Euclid, such a loser ;).

Manifold Garden is a great game.

Very close to Antechamber which is a little bit more a mindfuck, at leastr as far as I remember.

You are going to have to turn your brain on for this game. But if you're willing to do that, this is one of, if not THE greatest puzzle games I have ever played. A trip and a treat the whole way through, I'd hardly even call this a game. This is an experience, and I recommend it all the way

Very calming game. The puzzles are not to complicated and easy to understand.
I strongly recommend it.

This is an incredibly mind bending game. The sense of repeating infinities is used to tremendous effect. Its like youre in an mc escher painting after you found some fun guys on a foraging trip. perfect for when your climbing peaks and valleys.

Very chill game that's also fun!

This game is special. It's moving art, both visually and audibly. The puzzle solving is very good. Sometimes frustrating because you've not quite stepped far enough into the void to get it right, then you do, and you feel amazing. The game is about 6 ish hours long which is about exactly right. No timers, no failure states, save game is exactly where you left it. Recommended.

Novel puzzle game with interesting visuals.

cool game, 100%ing was tedious tho, the game is at is best when it allows you to mess around

Manifold Garden is a good game

The puzzles are simple, which works perfectly because the real ingredient here is the stunning visual design.
You just run through astonishing views.
Audio design is spot on.

Thank you for such a good game!

Simple and relaxing

This game is honestly one of the greatest experiences I've had playing games, I've laughed, cried, gotten mad and been confused all in the span of a few hours. Seriously, get this game, from the mind blowing visuals to the creative puzzles, it's only £16.75, join me and others who have experienced this masterpiece

The person who made this game is a genius. I enjoy the amazing infinite space in this game and I think this is one of the best puzzle games even compared to Portal.

A masterpiece. If you're a fan of first-person puzzle games, this is a must play.

Portal opened the door to the genre, Talos Principle enriched it, but Manifold Garden distills the formula to its beautiful, raw fundamentals. There is no story here per se, nor flashy graphics, just a pure atmospheric experience that drenches you in wide-open geometry and ambient music.

The puzzles are many and wonderful, having you play with colors, blocks, streams, gravity redirection, and mind-bending non-Euclidean spaces, which present themselves to you gradually and thoughtfully. There's no handholding. Instead exploration and experimentation will yield the many a-ha moments. I managed to complete the game without any guide, and though I often felt challenged I never felt the solutions were unfair or obscure. Think, try, and think again. And be rewarded.

I was fully engrossed and smiling from beginning to end. What a marvelous achievement.

It's mind blowing how this game handles rendering with solid FPS, also the menu design is very satisfying.

Easy recommend at full price. If you ever wanted to explore the inside of an MC Escher painting. Tried playing while I was high and nearly barfed. Will Try again with VR mod using Rai Pal. Barf Pro Max Ultra is not a thing.

great game. well designed..

Love this game.

Trippy visuals, interesting gravity based puzzles. What a beautiful game

Amazing space bending puzzle

ya like non-euclidean geometry and puzzle games? play it right now

Game is rather tedious than interesting. Too much walking.

Beautiful game with a great implementation of solving puzzles by changing gravity.
The game can be played more than once as the different areas are connected in a way that allows you to take things from one area to the other !
You can also take beautiful screenshots with the in-game photo mode.

Truly the most aesthetically pleasing tree-growing simulator of all time

Single sitting completion!
Good puzzle game, great visuals!

Some puzzles were more fun than others. The 3 block up/down small room puzzle was weird, thats the one that I spent so much time in. Every other puzzle did not take me that much. Had the awareness to get them all in good pacing.

Regardless, good. Liked it!