Beam

The game takes too much precision, which is very difficult with a keyboard and mouse. After about 10 times of doing the same load over and over....you finally succeed only to have your pod explode on structural failure....then guess what....start all over again....blah! After hours of play, still on second level...blek! You can't save your progress, a bitter failure for a game this difficult.

[h1]Now you´re thinking in [strike]portals[/strike] ... ähhhm ... BEAMS[/h1] [i]"Is it going to take loooooong?"[/i] If you wait for Portal 3 ... maybe, if you´re looking for your next challenging experience, no, you found it! I can´t point my finger on it, but I have so strong portal-vibes with this game. So if you liked Portal, Beam might be your next game. Instead of portals (and funny sticky gluey fluids) you have beams, emerging from kristalls with varios colors. Each color have its own unique capabilitys you can activate temporarily. And also instead of trying to kill you, the AI´s job is to save you from a collapsing starship, while you are rolling around in a mobile rescue pod, called MARBLE. What´s not kind of an easy task, because your charakter is an impulsive chatterbox. And thats the foundation for a lot of the humor in the game. Technically, the game have very good graphics for a title in this pricesegment and is fully dubbed on a professionel level and have an aw...

The gameplay is easily explained: You roll a ball, you spray fog towards lightbeams with different properties and you navigate through the levels. But from the very beginning you notice that it's not as easy as it sounds. Not only do you have to time your jumps and the fog correctly, you also have to find you way through the levels. Which should be easy in a 2.5D game, right? Not quite, as you can also rotate the camera at certain points. This adds lots of depth to the levels and makes the game much more complex than it seems at first. All in all it's a fun puzzle platformer with a small touch of metroidvania!

Great new take on the Puzzle genre - lot of fun! Great graphics and very clever story/tasks... Highly recommended!

[h1]It's bouncy![/h1] This reminds me of Portal so many times. The humor is there, the look and feel is just right. Controls may pose a challenge, if you think that you can learn everything within the first 5 minutes. Just dive in and get comfortable with the controls over time. Yes, you will probably fail 1-2 times but not too often. The game doesn't start at 100% difficulty. Hence, you have a chance to make progress and be prepared for more complexity. The game gives a good tutorial-like introduction and is somewhat noob-friendly. For a puzzler, I very much like the fact that levels and parts of levels are not too open so that you cannot run into the wrong direction for too long. The level design seems thought through in this regard. Depending on your position, you may get a good grasp of where you have to [strike]go[/strike] roll in the current level. I'm very much looking forward to playing this through and updating this review.

If you are looking for your next challenge, you have found it! In this platformer, you manipulate light beams with different properties (bouncing, sticking ...) to escape a spaceship wreck - together with your intelligent escape pod MARBLE. The dialogue between these two is simply hilarious - Definite Portal Vibes! While challenging, the game is super fun and rewarding - the hidden collectibles alone are must see. Behind the scenes footage and interviews with the developers. I have not seen many games that had these before. The graphics can compete with many of today's AAA games, and when you consider that this is a new indie developer, it's really impressive. If you like Portal, a challenge, and charming indie games - This is a must buy!

I can highly recommend Beam to any platformer fan out there. The game eases you into it relatively smooth, but becomes challenging pretty quickly. The level design tries to mix down-up or horizontal movement with cleverly placed objectives (visible in the background) or new obstacles (bridge collapse, for instance). The combination of the light beams with the crystals is an interesting concept that so far keeps on shaking things up. Backed up by the gloomy environment of the crashed spaceship which you try to escape, Beam will undoubtedly provide you with hours and hours of nail-biting, fun, exciting gameplay. Go check it out!

Great 2,5D Puzzle Plattformer. Very fun and also challenging. Funny Dialogs and brilliant graphics. Interesting new game mechanics that gives you many opportunities to master the many puzzles. Comes with many achievements and gives you way more than the predicted 8 hours of gametime. Its a very good and fun game for a cheap price. Give it a try!

32 hours of game play reflects more my inability to play but its still quite a long game and I enjoyed exploring the world before me. The gameplay was actually pretty good and the level of skill required to navigate the various obsticles is a challenge, but if I can do it then well, maybe you can too. The mazes were frustrating and I spent far too long in those. The puzzle elements were satisfying to solve. I found use of the yellow, red, green, purple beams gradually introduced as the levels progressed helped with the learning the mechanics. So, I enjoyed BEAM and happy to finally finish it. This is a very different kind of puzzle game than anything else that I have played and glad I played it. Thanks to the devs. Recommended. EDIT: Now onto chapter 3 and its super difficult but I keep coming back to try to progress further. Its got me hooked. Finally, after an epic battle, I have completed BEAM 100% and feel exhausted. Looking back, one of the most memorable moments was being chased...

I had my eyes for some time now on this game. It's really beginner friendly, but for the later sections, I had to use some brainpower and gaming skill. If you're like me and on the never ending journey to find a good challenge, you've found it! 8/10, would definitely recommend it!