Mirror Drop

I recently stumbled across this game via Bennett Foddy, and holy cow am I glad I did. The puzzles in the game are brilliantly designed, ranging from straightforward to absolutely mind aching (in a good way). It has a sort of Antichamber feel to it in my opinion, with an odd series of visually striking puzzles that you end up reworking over and over again until the solution hits you suddenly. And speaking of the visuals, wow. Solving a puzzle usually results in disorienting shift in the environment, and a couple of times that actually resulted in me feeling more lost than when I was actually trying to solve the puzzle that came before. If you see the screenshots and are intrigued like I was, I'd definitely recommend giving it a shot.

To be honest, I used to despise puzzle games that incline to emphasize difficulty onto “reading the puzzle” instead of “solving the puzzle”, for complicating the presentation of a puzzle is way easier than designing a complicated puzzle itself. At least to me, puzzle games which took the former approach is plainly lackluster and simply not fun. IMO, puzzles should be all about the eureka moment after scratching your head for hours only to find out the solution is that simple, not spending most of the time figuring out what the puzzle actually is about. To achieve that, the objectives, the obstacles it presents and the methods you got at your disposal, everything should be clear at a glance. How wrong was I. With hindsight after playing through [i]Mirror Drop[/i], I realized that It’s not that this approach is inferior, it’s just the majority of them failed to make “reading the puzzle” fun. As you can see, [i]Mirror Drop[/i] had a completely opposite approach toward...

I have never been so scared of spherical mirrors before in my life. Help. Also this game needs an epilepsy warning. In MirrorDrop, you play as a sphere that needs to guide a second sphere to each of a set of three goals, by toggling on and off magnets. Almost every surface in the game is a mirror, including both yourself and the second sphere, and there is a lot of weird fish-eye lens stuff going on, as well as some added 4D curvature in some areas to make the mirrors tile seamlessly. All this means that this puzzle game is very VERY disorienting. And if you have trypophobia or catoptrophobia... well, you definitely don't want to play this. Several times I jumpscared myself by running at full speed into a mirror... and saw my own reflection suddenly stare back at me. The puzzles are really nice though, at least from what I've played so far. Don't know if I'll be playing any more of it since this game creeps me out. I should go to sleep. Or maybe not, since I'm so scared that I mig...

I've never felt sick playing a game before but I had to stop playing this after 5 levels. It's amazing, fun, and beautiful, but it may be too much for you if you get nausea from first person games.

Working out all of the gravity manipulations is a surreal treat at first and then an exercise in surpassing the puzzle with a minimum set of moves. I'm having a really good time but still working my way through it. Mirror Drop requires flexing those brain puzzle muscles that are pretty weak on me, but it's a joy to fiddle with regardless of my personal incompetance. This review is partly just to give my brain a break while I try to figure out how to float my way out of the interior of a trippy D6. I'll figure it out eventually... 3+ hours gameplay for CLEVER PEOPLE, much more quality time than that for me I expect;-)

I'm torn about Mirror Drop. Not because there's any question of how good it is, though. Its utterly brilliant, totally brain breaking thanks to its impossible geometry and alien movements of the scenes, and yet somehow beautiful to look at in its simplicity. No, the reason I'm torn is because I'm not sure if this would be horrific or even better in VR. Sometimes I load it up just to float through it's impossible worlds...and also because I still don't have the final level yet. Utter brilliance and worth paying for.

Stunning visual and spacial design. You can easily lose yourself in intricately intertwined shapes and passages. So the game would be great even as a walking simulator. The fact that each level has some internal logic which you need to figure out adds a whole new layer of experience and makes it a real gem.

There is no game that has ever managed to mess with my spatial awareness so profoundly. Not even Portal. Great puzzles, too!

The screens and videos do not fully convey how mind-bending and delightful the levels are. Every time you manage to make some progress, the levels evolve visually in various ways, which tends to alleviate some of the frustration with figuring out how to actually get that ball in the right position (it is a puzzler, after all). That is not to say the levels are overly difficult - it is only a matter of finding the right approach. Highly recommended!

I had to stop the game so I could write a review. I have never been 'wowed' in a game since.. The videos DO NOT do it justice. It's the most beautiful work of art. My jaw actually dropped. with a 144hz monitor and 1080ti, this game does have any concept of pixels or or jagged edges.. its always a smooth framerate. @Devs, I don't know what magic you did, but this is amazing.