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It will lock you down in a room and won't let you escape. Will you survive, or ever get out? Your only choice is to find your way to the next room – but watch out, as many traps lie ahead. Wander around for hours solving over 60 beautifully crafted levels. Neverout is a mysterious puzzle game. It puts you in a small, claustrophobic room that has only one way out and its unique mechanics allow every wall to become the floor. Watch out for something heavy, giant spikes, or getting electrocuted!
Steam User 1
Clever games curator review: 5/10. An ultra-casual 3D puzzle game with movement restricted to a 6x6 grid inside a cube. When you reach the walls of the cube you can keep on moving, which rotates gravity, making the wall the new floor. Your goal is to reach the exit for each cube, with the cube in the proper orientation so that gravity allows you to fall through the exit.
I have very mixed feelings about this game. Perhaps the biggest fault is that at least half of the puzzles are just incredibly trivial. Almost always you can solve them by looking for the only thing that you can do, and doing it. For instance many of the puzzles involve rotating gravity so that a single loose cube slides into a location that is fortuitous for jumping into the exit. The only way you can put a cube anywhere other than a corner is by catching it on a ledge, and these puzzles always have one or two of those ledges, all of which must be visited by the cube. Thus, the number of plausible moves is very tiny and those moves are trivial to execute. It pretty much feels like the game is playing itself; you don’t even have to figure out why the moves will be useful, you just do it.
The rest of the puzzles do require at least some thought, though usually every puzzle takes at most a minute of gentle thought to figure out. However, sometimes it’s nice to have an easy puzzle game that never makes your brain hurt. This is absolutely that sort of game, and maybe that’s what you’re looking for.
Unfortunately, there are two other quality-of-life issues that further reduce the enjoyment of the game. Clearly this was some kind of mobile + VR game in its first life. This leads to a strange control scheme where you can only move on a grid, and rather awkwardly whenever you change direction your view is snapped to that direction of movement. You get used to it, but it doesn’t feel intuitive or natural at all. They also seem to have a very limited texture budget, leading to a significant difficulty in determining if a cube is standing freely or resting on a ledge that will prevent its movement when you rotate gravity. Or maybe I’m wrong about the technical limitations here, as otherwise the game looks pretty good, if extremely repetitive.
In the end I can weakly recommend this to people who are looking for something that is super easy, with zero brain hurt. I enjoyed the gravity rotation mechanic, and the other problems, while annoying, were not game-breaking. But anyone who’s looking for even a little challenge should skip.
Steam User 1
Great VR puzzle game, cool mechanics
Steam User 0
Good puzzle game.
2 hours of good gameplay for the average person.
Steam User 0
Simple but fun puzzle game with unique mechanics involving prison cubes and absence of directions, to get into the exit tunner for the next level. It's short but satisfying.
NOTE: the green levels are the hardest, tackle them after the others :)
Steam User 0
(game not complete at .1 hours of gameplay at review, part of my review all my games effort)
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An interesting 3d puzzle game that makes you think you're in the movie "the cube". I think I'd have fun with this if I were allowed to move the camera in free look however, at least with keyboard/mouse controls you can't maybe with VR you can. As I feel restricted/claustrophobic with the inability to free look I'm not going to play further. However, at $4 this game is absolutely recommended if you're into puzzle games.
(no long version needed)
Steam User 1