Разработчик: Warlock Arts
Описание
WISHLIST
About the Game
Have you ever heard about Chinese wood knots? If you’re not familiar with them, I’m sure you know the Magic Cube. We all went crazy handling the Magic Cube, and it was our source of inspiration for making Knot.Knot is a 3D mechanical puzzle game with realistic graphics that will fully immerse you into its world. Each puzzle is composed of blocks that are mechanically interlocked. Your mission is to find a way to solve it by moving and rotating the correct block in order to disassemble the puzzle.
Some puzzles are easy while others are quite challenging. But don’t worry, we created the perfect atmosphere that will allow you to relax and complete your mission. You will need to be focused, because the more puzzles you solve, the harder it becomes to move a block.
These interlocking puzzles are composed of multiple materials including wood, copper, stone, etc.
We hope that you will enjoy the brain teasers as much as we did designing them. Don’t hesitate to leave us a comment or question. We will be happy to answer as much as we can.
-- 40 unique brain teasers
-- 20 unique materials
-- Many achievements to unlock
-- Gorgeous graphics
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows® XP
- Processor: 2.0+ GHz Dual-Core Processor
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 1 GB available space
- OS: Windows® 10 (or higher)
- Processor: 3.0+ GHz Multi-Core Processor
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 560 (or better)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Good games ruined by the horrible mouse movement
A nice puzzle game, but the controls severely mar the experience.
Parts only move on x- and y-axis in relation to the screen. So you turn around the whole piece over and over, slowly. Accidentally selecting some other piece while doing it and losing track of what you were going to do. Tiles slide without you wanting them to, you cannot stop them precisely when required and you often find them stuck without knowing where. There is no look-through or zoom option.
Every part having the same look makes for a nice coherent puzzle look, but it also makes it incredible hard to distinguish between the individual parts and understand how they are interlocked, making it hard to come up with a "plan of attack".
In the later stages I often found myself just wiggling everything and often times quite stumped at how I managed to omit a tile from the picture.
Great concept (yet no novelty here), beautiful, but the controls are terrible and make this a pain to play. you have to click and drag across the whole screen to rotate about 5 degrees (maybe less, it's ridiculous)
Also, puzzles are unispired. Since moving the camera is a pain to try to figure out the puzzle, you just click and drag around until you solve it.
Last but not least, pieces keepmoving after you release the key to move them, making this a complete pain.
I do love Burr and Block puzzles, and, if this game existed in a vacuum, I'd be able to recommend it. Unfortunately, there is a similar mobile game called Interlocked, so I have a good idea of how much better this game could be.
Knot has an awful UI. It supports keyboard-mouse, which rotates the objects extremely slowly and makes it tedious to complete the puzzles. It also supports controller, which utilizes a cursor that zips around the screen at blinding speed and can't select pieces with any precision. Neither of these would be problems if the speed could be edited in the options menu, but it cannot.
The experience of playing Knot gets underscored by all sorts of minor annoyances. A piece is removed from play once it exits a bounding box, but the bounding box is small enough that some pieces can be removed while they're still entangled in others. One of the few choices offered by the options menu is muting the music, which unmutes every time the game is re-opened. There is no control for zooming out, no control for stopping a moving piece, no control for re-centering the puzzle. There's a key/button that's supposed to slow down rotation speed, but it never works in my experience.
The puzzles themselves are really good, but I keep being taken out of the experience by the little irritations. I'm playing this game 5 years after its release, so I doubt these annoyances will ever be fixed. This review is just my attempt at screaming into the void.
Soothing music, challenging puzzles. The ability to pause puzzles is useful.
The puzzle difficulty didn't increase linearly; some later puzzles were easier than earlier puzzles. Manipulating the puzzle pieces was a little annoying because the keyboard controls motion in only two dimensions; figures have to be rotated with the mouse, and LOTS of scrolling rotates the figures only a little, so turning a puzzle 180 degrees requires you to scroll again and again and again.
All the pieces of a given puzzle are covered in the same pattern (various kinds of wood grain or marble), so actually seeing where one piece ends and another begins becomes difficult as the puzzles become more complex (more pieces and more interlocking). So the game would be easier on the eyes if the devs used different patterns for different pieces.
I really wanted to like this game - I really like the concept and think it could be a lot of fun - but the controls are so painful it's not really playable to me. Firstly, forget KBM, it's not going to happen. But with the controller, I couldn't seem to select anything. The right stick had some kind of cursor going on but it wouldn't stop moving when you let off of the stick, and I still couldn't get it to select anything. So I had one hand on the mouse to select objects and one on the gamepad to rotate and move parts. But then, say you need to move a part to a precise location and then you have to rotate the object in order to move it (because it can only move on two axes at once): the objects keep moving once you set them in motion, so many times it was already past the spot where you needed to move it and you had to rotate back around and try again. Eventually I just gave up, as it wasn't fun to keep doing that. This would be a great game on VR, though, and if the developer decided to port it, I'd buy it again, maybe even for more.
a realy nice puzzle game
you have to untangle several pieces to clear a level
by using wsad keys
and the mouse to rotate the puzzle itself
This game is far from perfect and yet I do recommend it. Even better with a discount.
The game has 40 puzzles where several 3D shapes are intertwined and your object is to move them along the 3 axis in order to "release" them. The shapes have all the same texture but each time you pick one it changes colour so you can identify its relation to other shape.
The puzzles are not too hard not too easy and they should keep you busy for a little while. I have played one game with the same concept but the puzzles were designed quite differently so I enjoyed this one.
Problems:
1. The controls are not intuitive at first. There's a screen marked as a tutorial but it disappears too quick and, at least for me, some of the controls did not work as referenced in the screen.
In short, you can change point of view with the mouse. You pick a shape clicking on it and move it with the ASWD keys. The keys act according to point of view you have. If the direction you want to move the object is not well aligned horizontally or vertically, the shape will move slowly or not at all.
For me this was not a huge deal because I got used to it.
2. No puzzle browser. No way to skip puzzles or go back to a previous one.
3. Short. It took me 2 hours to solve all the 40 puzzles.
Much hard! Can't move the blocks very well with the keyboard!
It's not bad, could do with more puzzles though, but a decent puzzle game
Good concept that needs some work in its execution. It's certainly playable but finicky at times, no matter how many times you mute that damn annoying music it'll play again as soon as you start it back up, and often you either can't get a piece to budge when it's got plenty of room OR it'll go shooting off at lightspeed (especially when you need it carefully placed to remove another piece). These are all relatively minor flaws in a game that stands up pretty well for $5.99, but until these issues are addressed I would recommend buying it on sale. It also won't last you too long, at just over 90 minutes I'm nearly 40 puzzles in and rapidly approaching the last puzzle. With a little bit more polish, though, this puzzle game could share honors with titles like Zen Bound.
Lindo juego de puzzles con elementos y rotacion 3d, no son complicados pero sirve para distraerse o quemar el tiempo.
Los graficos son buenos y la musica es relajante (quizas demasiado?).
Me hubiera gustado que tuviera la opcion de zoom in/ zoom out, ya que en algunos niveles el color de las piezas seleccionadas no se distingue claramente de las otras y puede ser un poquito frustrante.
In Knot, you have to disassemble tangled three-dimensional solids into their separate parts. As you progress, the constructions become more complex and require more planning and time to disassemble. There is no time limit, so you can take as long as you need.
These are very good puzzles, they still look fine at high resolution, and the physics of the interlocking parts behave just as they would with actual solids. Still, the game itself has some rough edges - the rotation mechanics are cumbersome, and sometimes you have to restart a puzzle when you have maneuvered yourself into a situation you cannot undo; a rotation reset button would be welcome here.
There is only one option, and that is to mute all sound. Though the menu has an 'Extras' entry, clicking on it shows there are actually no extras. The 'Tutorial' is just a list of keyboard and controller behaviors.
Though the puzzle manipulation is a bit rough around the edges, I still recommend this to those who enjoy finding the right way to disassemble things. Thankfully, you do not have to put them back together.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Warlock Arts |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 02.02.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 54% положительных (13) |