Submachine is a point and click adventure game. You will explore a network of interconnected rooms and solve puzzles with items you find along the way. This is a complete remaster of the entire Submachine series.
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I played the original versions of Submachine 1-9 on the Flashpoint Archive, which lead to me finding out there was a remastered version of all of them! I'm so glad I found this game, it was nice to see all the updated visuals and improvements made to all the puzzles, and I enjoyed the story a lot. Definitely keeping my eye on whatever Mateusz Skutnik creates next!
extremely well done remaster of a large collection of point and click flash puzzle games. I never played the originals but i have a feeling that the amazing sense of atmosphere from the cryptic and ominous areas were kept up remarkably well, it kept me clamoring for more every time i stopped a session
The incredibly solid and consistent sense of art direction is what i appreciate most in this game. The story can be needlessly cryptic and unfocused at times but i really dont feel like thats the main draw with this one. An amazing and subtle score mixed with wonderful hand illustrated art makes for an absolutely unforgettable experience through a world i desperately wish to see more from in the future.
The incredibly solid and consistent sense of art direction is what i appreciate most in this game. The story can be needlessly cryptic and unfocused at times but i really dont feel like thats the main draw with this one. An amazing and subtle score mixed with wonderful hand illustrated art makes for an absolutely unforgettable experience through a world i desperately wish to see more from in the future.
If you're a fan of classic flash-style puzzle rooms this is the giga version of that concept. It offers a collection of 13 interwoven levels each of which challenge you to find all the items, identify where they are used, solve any puzzles, and reach the other end of the maze. Along the way it drip feeds you the story of how this abstract and surreal world ended up the way it is through the writings of its inhabitants.
The majority of gameplay involves scouring each scene for the items you can interact with, collecting things, and finding where to put them. While it can be fun at first there is a mindlessness to the process. Find what can be clicked, click it, try things on the interactive object until you find what works - this is usually obvious but not always.
The scenes themselves are beautifully drawn, and where there is animation it is simple and suits the art style. The sheer amount of scenes and their detail is staggering, along with all the architectural drawings strewn about the world. The score on the other hand feels a bit more simplistic, but adds to the atmosphere and rarely distracts from the prop hunt.
The majority of levels can be completed without really needing to turn your brain on but a few made me get out my pad and pen which is always a good sign, plus the final few levels and the shattered quadrant were uniquely challenging - not only because everything is so spread out and has a few red herrings thrown in. Finding the stabilizers can be tedious but youtube is always there to help pin point the more obscure ones.
Overall, if you're in the mood for that classic flash-style point and click puzzling with minimal narrative this is very much the pick for you. There are challenges to be found within, though few and far between, and the story is opt-in but has some interesting writing if you choose to partake. High marks for the visuals and breadth, but gameplay does get repetitive.
The majority of gameplay involves scouring each scene for the items you can interact with, collecting things, and finding where to put them. While it can be fun at first there is a mindlessness to the process. Find what can be clicked, click it, try things on the interactive object until you find what works - this is usually obvious but not always.
The scenes themselves are beautifully drawn, and where there is animation it is simple and suits the art style. The sheer amount of scenes and their detail is staggering, along with all the architectural drawings strewn about the world. The score on the other hand feels a bit more simplistic, but adds to the atmosphere and rarely distracts from the prop hunt.
The majority of levels can be completed without really needing to turn your brain on but a few made me get out my pad and pen which is always a good sign, plus the final few levels and the shattered quadrant were uniquely challenging - not only because everything is so spread out and has a few red herrings thrown in. Finding the stabilizers can be tedious but youtube is always there to help pin point the more obscure ones.
Overall, if you're in the mood for that classic flash-style point and click puzzling with minimal narrative this is very much the pick for you. There are challenges to be found within, though few and far between, and the story is opt-in but has some interesting writing if you choose to partake. High marks for the visuals and breadth, but gameplay does get repetitive.
If you don't know Submachine, this is a point and click puzzle journey into a surreal, slightly philosophical world of layered reality and fragmented locations across time and space. It's easily one of the best works to come out of the flash games era, all redone with beautiful hand-made illustrations and designs, and the 14 chapters all flow beautifully into each other. There's no moon logic puzzles, there's no obtuse riddles, just reasoning and an insane amount of locations to explore. TAKE NOTES, you'll be thankful.
If you know Submachine, this is the entire saga, including Network Exploration, all redone, cleaned up, improved and integrated into a very big, very choesive narrative and gameplay experience. All of Submachine, completely improved. There's a fair amount of new content too, particularly in the Network Exploration, there's SO MANY new rooms and puzzles, it's been turned into a more classic puzzle game, just on a massive scale. There's so many room.
This was a wonderful experience, very rewarding to the end.
If you know Submachine, this is the entire saga, including Network Exploration, all redone, cleaned up, improved and integrated into a very big, very choesive narrative and gameplay experience. All of Submachine, completely improved. There's a fair amount of new content too, particularly in the Network Exploration, there's SO MANY new rooms and puzzles, it's been turned into a more classic puzzle game, just on a massive scale. There's so many room.
This was a wonderful experience, very rewarding to the end.
Criminal lo poco reconocido que está este juego
DISCLAIMER:
This review is entirely for my own sake. You are welcome to read it but it may or may not contain spoilers for the whole game.
I expected just a port of the Flash classics, but the game puts a lot of effort into adding content to connect all the entries toghether into a beautiful package with tons of secrets.
It was one of those impulsive insta-buys, but I'm happy to report I do not regret it at all.
Overall, super fun game for returning players and newcomers alike.
This review is entirely for my own sake. You are welcome to read it but it may or may not contain spoilers for the whole game.
I expected just a port of the Flash classics, but the game puts a lot of effort into adding content to connect all the entries toghether into a beautiful package with tons of secrets.
It was one of those impulsive insta-buys, but I'm happy to report I do not regret it at all.
Overall, super fun game for returning players and newcomers alike.