Разработчик: PlayZilla.tk
Описание
Проявите смекалку и проведите свет к Приемникам с помощью профессора Оптикуса и его ассистентом, Софией.
Раскладывайте и направляйте свет с помощью линз, зеркал и призм. Проведите фотоны до финального сенсора!
- 160 уровней;
- 14 оптических устройств;
- Линзы, зеркала, призмы и многое другое;
Откройте мир физики света: играйте с лазерами, призмами, зеркалами, магнитами и десятком других оптических устройств.
Изучите мир Оптики с профессором Оптикусом и Софией! Исследуйте и пройдите более ста непростых паззлов!
Уровни и механики, которые вы увидите, вдохновлены физикой реального света!
Поддерживаемые языки: english, french, german, simplified chinese, russian, dutch, polish
Системные требования
Windows
- ОС *: Windows 7, Windows 8.1, Windows 10, Windows XP or Windows Server 2008
- Процессор: 2.33GHz or faster x86-compatible processor or Intel® Atom™ 1.6GHz or faster processor for notebook class devices
- Оперативная память: 512 MB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Any GPU
- Место на диске: 100 MB
Mac
- ОС: Mac OS X v10.7, and above
- Процессор: Intel® Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor
- Оперативная память: 512 MB ОЗУ
- Видеокарта: Any GPU
- Место на диске: 200 MB
Отзывы пользователей
Make sure to download and execute old updates (2018) or you will not receive any achievements.
If you like cool light effects and EBM this puzzle is for you!
PROS:
+Good visuals.
+Innovative!
+Satisfyingly relaxing.
+Well thought tutorial.
+160 levels.
+Gratifying sounds.
CONS:
-Broken Steam achievements.
-Ultimately a matter of trial and error.
SCORE: 6.8 / 10
Notice
The game is a flash game and there is no cloud saving, but if you want to access to your save use this path %AppData%\Roaming\Optika
Last developer update was back early 2021 and there is a problem with the live version of the game where it doesn’t track your achievements, I will leave a comment with some help at end for those who want to complete the game.
Review
There are 2 main reasons why you may have this game already or you may feel incline into buying it however I will separate this review into gameplay and art style.
Gameplay
Optika is a simple puzzle game with objective of igniting receivers with beam lights, I order to manipulate light beams you are given different tools according to the level you will be able to change trajectory, speed, form of the beam and even its colours.
With only 150 level the game itself doesn’t take to much to clear, if there was a single complain it would be the difficulty of the game is not linear even on last chapter the overall challenge of puzzles was just not there.
Art Style
Now by Art Style I don’t mean in game I'm referring to steam background this game had by many years some of the best backgrounds available in steam it was always a shame that they couldn’t transit that talent people into the game itself.
A lot of people bought this game because of the backgrounds however with Steam Point Shop, you have alternative ways to get backgrounds and customize your profile.
the puzzle design is really bad.
One moment way too simple and other even with an example you can't beat it
i only bought this for the profile backgrounds on the points shop, but after doing so i found out they were on the community market because im a moron lmao
A super fun light optics puzzle game with plenty of pieces. It's not just about bending the lights correctly. There are different color lights that need to go to the correct sensor. Some sensors require a specific light speed. Some pieces split light into colors.
The tutorial is simple yet effective. I played the tutorial and five levels. I love these kinds of puzzles, and you might as well.
This game is disaster.. I didn't even finish the tutorial. And not because it is so difficult, but because it is total bulls**t.
Mainly, it's not about the optics in the meaning of physics. Even if I accept the non-intuitive marking of the used "optical" elements and their chaotic appearance, or the misuse of the terms emitter and collector, I'm not able to accept the bending of a light beam by a magnet or even the function of slowing down light speed by adjusting the emitter.
I originally wanted to show the game to my children to learn something about physics, but this is just a bunch of wrong principles that absolutely ignore the physical nature of light.
As an addition, the game was lagging on my i7-9750H / RTX2060.
Had a great time solving the problems with my friends. Indie games like this deserves a lot of appreciation.
Bought it while on sale and got a space background for 500 points in the points shop. Nebula Y background is beautiful, but the bottom part doesn't really blend with Steam (check my profile and try scrolling down). There's another background which is pretty similar and apparently blends well with the rest of your profile, it's name is Rare Nebula something.
If you're planning to buy it just for the background, wait for it to be on sale or buy the background in the community market
It's a good game
For some apparent, when you have spare time you decided that you'll just play with lights today.
Really it can be quite the challenge and that's when it's fun.
Mostly it's pretty easy
*mind blown
Science [spoiler]not really, just physics and some lights[spoiler]
I actually couldn't decide for quite some time if I would recommend this game or not. On a scale from 1 to 10 I would probably give it a 5/10. It's quite close to "okay". The idea is good, the look is also fine and it's over 100 levels. The biggest problem is just that also over 100 level are so easy, that it just takes 10-20 seconds to solve them. And even the rest of them is mostly just taking longer, because you try to find the "sweet spot" while bending the particels. Actually quite sad, because a basically good idea was wasted. If you need a game to play on the side while watching a show, get it at a sale.
Arrange elements such as mirrors, splitters, etc, to hit targets with a stream of particles.
This is no Auditorium, and its very rough around the edges.
Youll get levels that are incredibly trivial, others that I appeared to light everything up but didnt let me finish until I took a different route to lighting them up, the relatively few particles seem to get slow down at times, and there are very few levels that really give you an aha! moment of satisfaction even when they do get a little taxing.
That all said: When it works, and for the most part it does, its a fairly relaxing few hours of some decent looking, decent sounding particle fiddling. There are a lot of levels to get through, and while the mechanics are quite simple and limited I cant say I was particularly bored for the few hours of active play I put in.
Dont expect something amazingly clever, tricky, or polished, and youll almost certainly get your monies worth, especially if you get it on sale.
I started playing this with my 6 year old daughter to teach her about light. This a great puzzle game with simple, yet very pleasant visuals. The controls are well designed and well explained in a series of tutorials. I still have to complete the game but I can already see how complexity and difficulty will increase!
Highly recommended!
Game: 5/10
Profile backgrounds: 10/10
"Would farm space background again" IGN
Story
None. The both steampunk characters only appear in the tutorial.
It's a bit sad, because they looked interesting.
Gameplay
Solid mechanics like white light will be splitted into red, green and blue in different angles BUT (big but) its a bit fiddly to hit every thing correct so you have to adjust it pixel perfect to finish the level.
Only skipped 2 levels because I lost patience with them. I hit every thing but not with the correct amount of particles for the threshold to end the level. There is a little waiting time to finish it so the randomnes of the particle stream don't allow me the correct amount of perticle for the whole time. Still good game.
Conclusion first:
Gorgeous looking game with interesting game mechanics but really lacking in good puzzle designs. Still fun to pick up for a couple of bucks.
The details:
I'll start off with the bad part of the game: level/puzzle designs. There are maybe a dozen of puzzles that will really make you think. But the rest are either just try/tweak some stuff until you manage to hit the target(s), or just plain so simple you only need to change a few things around to beat it. In one instance (about 3/4 of the game) there's actually a level where you needn't do anything, and it just solves itself (and I don't believe that to be by design!). The levels are grouped together in several packs, but there isn't any theme going on and the difficulty is all over the place.
The controls are also a bit wonky, but not so bad that it is ever really frustrating, although your mileage may vary. The sound effects can be a bit annoying, but there is an option in the menu to change the volume.
As for the good stuff, I'm a sucker for the bright neon lighting effects which makes the game in my opinion absolutely gorgeous. The music is really good too, although it can get a bit repetitive in the long run. There are some very fun puzzles to solve. My favorites were the ones with attractors and/or repulsors where you can create intricate patters. The lenses are fun too to fill your screen with bright colors!
I still recommend it because it's quite fun and relaxing. Especially if you have kids this may be a great game for them to play with since most puzzles are quite easy. I got it for a couple of bucks and even tho I finished it in about 3 hours, I feel it was worth my money.
A fun problem-solving game, a great way to burn time and relax. Some beautiful visuals to be had, and the musical background is quite nice as well.
Gameplay:
Not really fun to play and hardly a puzzle game at all. Since the photons are already flowing while you're playing and you get the exact assortment of necessary items (lenses, mirrors etc.) beforehand, all you do is move/align the given items and fine-tune until the beam hits the targets. Planning ahead and logic falls flat, you don't build your own solution, you just tune a given setup. It's too easy, too limited, totally one-dimensional and boring.
Could be good for kids, but isn't because of inaccurate, laughable physics ("photon accelerator") and spelling errors.
Design, Controls:
Beam movement, colors etc. look unphysical and unrealistic. The item design is ugly and bland (just abstract, white symbols) and lacks clarity, so that the real "difficulty" is not finding the solution, but rather trying to recognize the items and what their function is. Because of poor mouse control (which cannot be adjusted), getting the desired angles is another frustrating "difficulty" that shouldn't exist.
The whole design looks cheap and loveless with a minimal interface and menu options, as if the game was put together on a single weekend.
Conclusion:
Amateurish, a total failure. It's an insult to charge money for this, since there are much better flash physics games for your browser out there which are actually FUN to play and FREE of charge.
Optika is a casual physics-based puzzle game that's fun and colorful throughout. The gameplay mechanics are interesting, albeit not well explained by the tutorial. There's a lot of levels here, but the game is unfortunately easy and the game doesn't demand that you understand its mechanics completely in order to complete the puzzles. In this way, the game encourages experimentation that makes it easy to see everything Optika has to offer; on the other hand, it makes solving the puzzles less satisfying in places.
Still, for $5, Optika is worth your time and money. The soundtrack is fantastic and the vibe of the game is both soothing and cheerful. Would recommend.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaN-hDW5Lzg
I like it, but I have a number of complaints:
- The hit boxes don't register well enough
- The mouse sensitivity is too high and the angles change on their own when you've only clicked and not moved the mouse
- The light particles move too slow, it makes it feel like a laggy fps
- The levels aren't that creative, just asinine in difficulty from crap controls
The level design in this game is extremely poor. Several of the levels seem completely out of order in terms of difficulty. I've come across levels into the third chapter where only one parameter on an object had to be changed to solve it. I've also come across a level that was in a solved state to begin with.
After adjusting mirrors and lenses the whole day to hit the desired spots with a laser, I go home, start my PC and adjust mirrors and lenses the whole evening to hit the desired spots with a laser.
In Optika, you solve geometric optic puzzles by adjusting optical elements such as mirrors, lenses, frequency conversion crystals and a few others. While there are many games out there, especially mobile games, that do exactly the same, Optika seems to be the only one (correct me if I'm wrong) approaching it with single photons forming a beam of light, which gets closer to the particle-wave characteristic of light than just a solid beam. Then again, it lets you change the speed of light, so the real physics stop as fast as they started.
Pros:
- Lasers
- epic colors (you can take some really nice screenshots)
- frequency conversion (it's even cooler in reality)
- Lasers
Cons:
- the magnetic fields make you go crazy and their amount of influence on the photons is unrealistic
- changing the speed of light gives away the realism
(changing the speed of the photons is only required because of the magnetic fields, removing the first would solve the latter)
TL:DR
As an engineer developing lasers, I rate this 8/10 (not 10 yet because of unrealistic mechanics)
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | PlayZilla.tk |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 31.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 76% положительных (62) |