Be the rewind master with the puzzles you’ll find in The Entropy Center
Welcome to the Center of Entropy, a special center where the study of time, the art of rewinding and manipulating quantum physics is our passion. Make yourself comfortable and don’t hesitate to try to solve our challenges for a common good. The Earth needs you, and only you are the one in power to save humanity. Only you are in the space base. Only you are alive. Only you.
Embrace order instead of chaos
From the hand of Stubby Games game stack comes The Entropy Center, a puzzle game with a taste of Gate where we will have to control the weather in a very particular way. Although at first we will not know very well who we are or our role in the scientific station, little by little we will unravel a story that is gaining over time.
Fundamentally we will be the only human survivor left on the station. A station that cares about saving the Earth from extinction, and for that it has a rewind system that gives humans a second chance
Befriend an AI
Although we are the only living person in the Center of Entropy, we will not be entirely alone. Like in the Valve game, we will have an artificial intelligence that will be our guide and our companion throughout the adventure. Her name will be “E” and while she’s not as sarcastic as GLaDOS, she turns out to be good company for their jokes and conversations. In addition, it will help us control our time gun, the main basis on which the game’s puzzles are built.
In time
To go back in time. This will be the main proposition of all the puzzles that we will experience in The Entropy Center. At first we’ll use the gun to rebuild fallen walls, collapsed stairs and broken valves so you can move on to the next area. But little by little, this little tutorial will give way to much more complex situations. And let’s see how I describe it now…
Basically the whole adventure will be based on move from one room to another by solving puzzles, and for this we will have to press on panels on the ground that open the doors to the next area. We will start by using cubes, which will have to be positioned on panels, but not at all. Thanks to our gun, we can make these cubes move back so that they are positioned where they were a few seconds before. This way, playing with space and backtracking, we can reactivate the switches with the same piece when we need it.
The complexity of temporary spaces
But of course, this is only the beginning. As we progress, everything will get more complicated, with trampolines, walkways and other types of cubes it will make us reflect on their position before and after our steps. I understand that it’s hard to explain (and don’t believe it, hard to understand at the beginning of the adventure), but Thanks to the well-measured difficulty curve, we will quickly master each area until we become experts in reversing things. In addition, all this is seasoned with the story that we discussed at the beginning of the analysis, resulting in a very interesting and immersive proposal.
Take care of the aesthetics of the puzzles
And for immersive, we have to talk about its visual section. There aren’t a few puzzle games I’ve enjoyed over the years (Superliminal, Manifold Garden, or The Turing Test, all great games), but none reach the level of detail we see in The Entropy Center. This title is the perfect example that because it is a puzzle proposal, its technical section should not be left out.
To start, the game runs very well. The camera responds perfectly, accuracy with the weapon feels very natural, and object physics behave as they should. But if we add to that detailed settings,
Conclusion of the center of entropy
Puzzle enthusiasts will appreciate the new features from Stubby Games and Playstack. His proposal is very original thanks to this gun which allows you to rewind objects. This action will allow you to experience many situations, more and more complex but all well implemented thanks to a good difficulty curve. In addition, everything has an essence that reminds us of Portal, an aspect that we consider very positive. We will live all this with a sublime graphic section. One of the best we’ve seen in puzzle-based titles. That said, we can only recommend that you visit The Entropy Center and try to save the Earth with the help of your ingenuity.
The center of entropy
24,99$
Advantages
- Very good decor and history.
- Original puzzles based on the recoil of objects
- Technically it works very well.
The inconvenients
- At first it is difficult to understand the puzzles
- Not all objects can interact with
- AI isn’t as sarcastic as GLaDOS, although it does its job
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