- April 10, 2023
- Deer Vision
Photon Engineer
73%Game Brain Score
optimization, music
gameplay, graphics
100% User Score 24 reviews
Platforms
PC
Windows
Linux
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About
Master laser manipulation and environmental control in this sci-fi puzzle game. Unleash your creativity and uncover the secrets of mysterious platforms that have suddenly appeared near Jupiter.
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Audience ScoreBased on 24 reviews
optimization4 positive mentions
graphics2 negative mentions
- Photon Engineer offers a variety of challenging puzzles that require strategic thinking and careful planning, making it a satisfying mental workout.
- The game features a well-designed progression system, gradually introducing new mechanics and keeping the gameplay fresh and engaging.
- The open-source engine is well-written and optimized, ensuring smooth performance on a range of systems, including Linux.
- Some puzzle mechanics and solutions can feel inconsistent or wonky, leading to frustration for players at times.
- The aesthetics are basic, which may not appeal to everyone, and the overarching plot is weak, serving mainly as a backdrop for the puzzles.
- The 2D puzzles can be tedious and may require trial and error, which some players find less enjoyable compared to the 3D puzzles.
- gameplay16 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
The gameplay of Photon Engineer is praised for its first-person perspective, evolving mechanics, and engaging logic puzzles that often utilize the environment creatively. While the level design effectively introduces new challenges and maintains a fresh experience, some mechanics can feel inconsistent, and certain puzzle solutions may be unclear. Overall, the game successfully caters to puzzle enthusiasts despite its basic aesthetics and occasional difficulty spikes.
“Photon Engineer checks all the boxes regarding what I am looking for in a puzzle game: first-person perspective, evolving yet consistent mechanics, and logic puzzles that occasionally require you to make use of the environment without having to break said mechanics. The reward of additional puzzles for solving the main puzzles is a great touch.”
“One of the strengths of Photon Engineer is its level design, which gradually introduces new mechanics and challenges to keep the gameplay fresh and engaging.”
“The pacing and teaching (environmentally, mostly) in the game is quite good, with only a couple of instances leaving me scratching my head about a game mechanic, an issue that the developer is actively improving.”
“Some mechanics or puzzle solutions are wonky and difficulty is not consistent.”
“The aesthetics are pretty basic, but to a true lover of puzzle games, that should not be of any importance as long as the gameplay holds up, which it does.”
“The pacing and teaching (environmentally, mostly) in the game is quite good, with only a couple of instances leaving me scratching my head about a game mechanic (an issue that the dev is actively improving).”
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