Manifold Garden

"Completing puzzles and unlocking the various ways the game plays with its central mechanic all provide the catharsis of truly understanding each new environment and admiring the clever ways the developer wrapped everything together. From a pure gameplay perspective, it&s;s …"

"After finishing my play-though of Manifold Garden, I’ve been left with a strange mix of elation and melancholy; a longing for just one more of those beautifully crafted, wonderfully challenging and intensely peaceful levels. Yes, it’s fair to say that …"

"Manifold Garden is a fantastic puzzle game with a distinctive style. It adds challenge and new elements gradually, using colour within puzzle solutions in a way that keep things fresh. Highly recommended for puzzle game fans."

"I have never encountered a more beautiful, entrancing and sublime gaming experience"

"Manifold Garden is a wonderful, mind-bending puzzle experience. After 7 years of development, the five or so hours of the game are unique yet familiar. There is nothing else quite like it, and is one of the best puzzle games …"

"I want to love this game, but I don&s;t. It&s;s an exquisite piece of design with a beautiful aesthetic that just needs a little more sense of direction in my honest opinion. Explorers and puzzlers will grow to love this …"

"Manifold Garden challenges our intuition and gets its inspiration on impossible geometry and at the same time inviting us to think of impossible solutions."

"Manifold Garden is a gorgeous puzzler that is something very different. It will test you and reward you in equal measure for a very unique experience."

"Mesmerising and thrilling, this is a puzzle game for the ages."

"I’m happy to say that Manifold Garden is one of the few first person games I found myself enjoying immensely with little fiddling required. The puzzles are tricky and the lack of hints is definitely not for everyone, but the …"

"Manifold Garden its a game about changing: from the changing-gravity mechanic to the high variety of gameplay, the game design defines an interesting first person puzzle game with a lot of exploration in Escher-style. A good game that sometimes just …"

"Manifold Garden is a stunning puzzle game, one that will leave a lasting impact on you, not just for its thought-provoking puzzles, but by virtue of the fact that you&s;re essentially playing an actual piece of art. It&s;s bloody delightful!"

"Manifold Garden&s;s unique aesthetic and creative puzzles result in a memorable journey that is well worth the price of admission."

"Manifold Garden proves that a game doesn’t need a narrative to be enjoyable!"

"Manifold Garden is a serotonin-inducing triumph of a puzzle game that will captivate anyone who loves abstract aesthetics. Every single frame of this game is a screenshot, and every puzzle one that challenges the brain to think of the world …"

"Manifold Garden invites you to bend your mind to the whim of infinity and learn to truly see things from all angles."

"Manifold Garden is excellent visual poetry with different perspectives. It will make us think deeply at certain times and even get confused. It is short but it is compensated by its elaborate development and precious audiovisual section."

"Manifold Garden is an incredibly stylish first-person puzzler, like walking through the architectural drawings of a pandimensional designer."

"Despite the relatively short playtime and little replay value, Manifold Garden is worth exploring. Just be prepared for an existential trip into the world of William Chyr."

"And it takes an artist&s;s touch to so masterfully combine gameplay, art direction, architecture, logic puzzles, spacial subversion and audio-visual elements into such a coherent package. I&s;ve a feeling Chyr&s;s next project might manifest as an art installation rather than …"

"Manifold Garden has a lot going for it, but above all else, it&s;s simply pleasant – to look at, to listen to, and to play. It&s;s the kind of game you can revisit every couple of years and be confident …"

"Part of my love for indies is that the best of them dare to be different and then unapologetically deliver something new that challenges and defies your normal expectations..."

"William Chyr’s passion project is among my favorite first-person puzzlers for its ambitious scope, entrancing visuals, and brain-breaking conundrums."

"The star of the Manifold Garden show is far and away its presentation, and witnessing it in motion is worth the asking price alone. It&s;s just a shame the puzzles themselves can&s;t quite hit those same levels of spectacularity."

"Manifold Garden is an experience that mixes physics with puzzle solving. For anyone interested in the absurd ambience of Escher&s;s illustrations or surrealist art, the game offers a sense of closeness. But this setting is sometimes confusing (on purpose) and …"

"Whether it&s;s the influence of all the shapes and all the colours, or the enjoyable "clack" sound of cubes tapping along staircases, Manifold Garden is totally hypnotic. It&s;s easy to get lost in a flow state while traversing between cubes …"

"in the end, it can be said that Manifold Garden is a very worthy puzzle title. Although the game environments are designed to be very simple, they often find a special beauty during the gameplay, especially in Photo Mode, and …"

"Manifold Garden sure took its time to reach us, but the wait has been worth it. This is a beautiful puzzle game that stretches your spatial reasoning, but not immensely so. The difficulty could have been increased, but designing and …"

"Manifold Garden is probably one of the best and most daring puzzle games of the past two decades. Referring to the greatest classics of the genre, it manages to present an absolutely simple concept both in terms of aesthetics and …"

"A serene gravity flipping puzzler with impossible structures to wrap your head around."

"I don’t know if I would say I had a “blast” with Manifold Garden, but that’s only because I suck at puzzle games. What I do know is make no mistake; this one should not be missed if you consider …"

"Manifold Garden is a puzzle game that’ll blow your mind, challenge you, and please both your eyes and ears. Despite looking very simplistic in still images, the game is stunning with its perfect use of subtle colours and non-textured design, …"

"Manifold Garden is a lovely game, but sometimes the "game" bit gets a little in the way."