Q.U.B.E. 2
Q.U.B.E. 2 is the sequel to the hit first-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E. You are Amelia Cross, a stranded archaeologist who has mysteriously awoken among the sand swept ruins of an ancient alien landscape. Together with the distant help of another survivor, Commander Emma Sutcliffe, you must traverse and manipulate the structure of this forgotten world to find a way back home. Waking up wearing a strange suit with attached gloves, you have no prior knowledge on how you came to be in this environment. Awaiting you is a maze-like monolith, a structure that you must navigate, solving mind-bending puzzles. Use your manipulation gloves to change and adapt the architectural structure in your search to rendezvous with another survivor, finding a way off the planet.
Game Discussion
Steam User 4
$20 game, budget Portal theme but without portals. The first half of the game's puzzles are agonisingly straightforward, but the last three hours is competent and worth playing.
Steam User 4
Decent puzzle game.
Steam User 3
Qube 2 is a very decent puzzle game, in the same genre as "Portal 2" and "Magrunner: Dark Pulse".
It has atmosphere and a story that make the simple map design feel alien and bearable.
If Portal was about robots and Magrunner was about aliens, then Qube is about robot aliens :D
I haven't played the first Qube game but its boring white tileset seemed too boring and reminded me of bathrooms.
Qube 2 on the other hand reminded me of The Backrooms.
My only gripes could be:
Wish there was a workshop for community made levels like in Portal...
Also wish there was a button for running. Normal walking is so 2005, come on.
Heard the paid DLC are good but they are paid DLC..
Overall, a good enough game.
Puzzles were challenging but not for someone like me who is coming fresh off of custom Portal 2 levels.
Steam User 2
It is a decent puzzle game, although it wasn’t perfect, if you think that there aren’t much decent puzzle games, it is worth a try, when it is discounted. Story is there to be there and it isn’t really good. Variety isn’t great but it is enough for the most part. The game will be a bit boring at the end but again, it is not bad for the most part.
Steam User 1
Overall a good game and a worthy successor to the first one, as long as you're not here for the story and can forgive the other issues.
Pros:
- Much better graphics than the first game. It was my first experience with ray tracing and I have to admit I'm starting to see what the hype is about.
- The puzzles introduce new mechanics at a good rate, fast enough to keep things interesting but without making things too complicated too quickly.
- The difficulty increases at a good rate.
- The voice acting was very good.
Cons:
- Parts of the story were predictable, and parts didn't really make sense.
- The endings were disappointing.
- One of the achievements is buggy. Supposedly it's possible to get but it seems to be so finicky it's as much luck as anything else.
- The story was simply an excuse for the puzzles and didn't really try to hide that. Most of it consisted of 'solve these 5 or so puzzles to power this thing on', rinse and repeat. Though to be fair that's par for the course for these sorts of puzzlers.
- While the game itself has controller support, the menus don't.
- The button prompts are for mouse & keyboard, not controller
- The walking speed is quite slow. Thankfully areas tend to be small enough that this isn't too problematic.
- The sensitivity was insane by default (at least with a controller). I had to decrease it by more than half before I could control where I was looking properly.
Verdict: 7/10
Steam User 1
Adore it!!!
Steam User 1
Portal VR for those with delicate stomachs.