The Bridge
- February 22, 2013
- Ty Taylor and Mario Castañeda
- 8h median play time
Escher meets Braid in a puzzle game that's weird but not weird enough. Its imaginative environments and beautiful soundtrack do mean it's worth taking a trip to this beguiling dreamworld.
Get on Steam"The Bridge is a single-player fantasy platformer game, known for its great plot, amazing mechanics, and hand-drawn, black-and-white graphics. Players manipulate gravity and explore increasingly complex puzzles in M.C. Escher-inspired worlds, with 48 unique levels and an alternate version of the game available after completion."
Mac OS
Nintendo Switch
PC
Playstation 4
Windows
Xbox One
Linux
PlayStation
Playstation 3
Playstation Vita
Wii
Wii U
Xbox
Xbox 360
Reviews
- graphics564 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 49 % neutral mentions
- 1 % negative mentions
- gameplay519 mentions
- 30 % positive mentions
- 68 % neutral mentions
- 3 % negative mentions
- story262 mentions
- 19 % positive mentions
- 72 % neutral mentions
- 9 % negative mentions
- music247 mentions
- 39 % positive mentions
- 54 % neutral mentions
- 6 % negative mentions
- atmosphere89 mentions
- 60 % positive mentions
- 36 % neutral mentions
- 4 % negative mentions
- grinding38 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
- replayability28 mentions
- 21 % positive mentions
- 64 % neutral mentions
- 14 % negative mentions
- funny10 mentions
- 80 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 20 % negative mentions
- emotional10 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- ads4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
- optimization4 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 100 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
- character development2 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
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- stability2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
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- 100 % negative mentions
Critic Reviews
The Bridge review: Escher pressure
Escher meets Braid in a puzzle game that's weird but not weird enough. Its imaginative environments and beautiful soundtrack do mean it's worth taking a trip to this beguiling dreamworld.
70%The Bridge Review
The Bridge does a lot of things right. The aesthetics are charming, for starters. The concept is a good one, too. The problem is simply that once you realise that you can pretty much fluke your way through the tough levels, there’s not a great deal of it to be had. You’ll have seen all that The Bridge has to offer in a couple of hours and there are a fair few titles available for the same price on XBLA that will either hold your attention for a heck of a lot longer than that, or provide more entertainment in the same timespan.
60%The Bridge will make your head spin
With a novel, gravity-based hook, The Bridge offers some quality entertainment to fans of brain-teasers. But its copycat aesthetic makes it feel more like a “me too” indie puzzler. At only $10, it’s worth a plunge for genre fans, but only expect about three hours of gameplay with a startling difficulty spike.
65%
