Can you ID this PC puzzle game?
February 12, 2005 9:26 AM Subscribe
Yet another PC game question. Help me find a puzzle game that I really do not have a lot of information about, but hopefully something will tweak someone's memory. [+]
Awhile ago, while browsing through a campus computer store, there was a game on some of the display monitors that looked incredible. I never actually got to play it, but I watched a few other people have a go and here's sort of how it went:
The player is faced with these very elaborate puzzles that involve setting certain types of levers, buttons, latches etc. in place in order to unlock the next (increasingly difficult) puzzle. The graphics were quite good and the score was pretty trippy.
I have searched and searched and gone through a lot of puzzle games and none seem to match this description. Included on that list is Pandora's Box, The Incredible Machine (which is a great game), and all the Myst-like titles. This particular game did not involve any walking around or exploring, it was simply the puzzles themselves (similar to Myst, but not quite).
I know it is not much to go off of, but it is all I have. Any help would be appreciated.
Awhile ago, while browsing through a campus computer store, there was a game on some of the display monitors that looked incredible. I never actually got to play it, but I watched a few other people have a go and here's sort of how it went:
The player is faced with these very elaborate puzzles that involve setting certain types of levers, buttons, latches etc. in place in order to unlock the next (increasingly difficult) puzzle. The graphics were quite good and the score was pretty trippy.
I have searched and searched and gone through a lot of puzzle games and none seem to match this description. Included on that list is Pandora's Box, The Incredible Machine (which is a great game), and all the Myst-like titles. This particular game did not involve any walking around or exploring, it was simply the puzzles themselves (similar to Myst, but not quite).
I know it is not much to go off of, but it is all I have. Any help would be appreciated.
Response by poster: It was probably 1999-2000. The graphics were very crisp ala Myst style. The puzzles themselves would sort of rotate based on their size (some were cubic, some spherical) and you would have to use whatever mechanisms on them in order to "open" the device thus exposing the next level. The graphics were quite good (even by today's standards I would imagine).
posted by purephase at 10:38 AM on February 12, 2005
posted by purephase at 10:38 AM on February 12, 2005
It sounds like The Incredible Machine, well, except for the good graphics) which is about 10 years old.
I searched and it seems like there was a new version released around 2001, there are screenshots here
on Amazon.
posted by Boobus Tuber at 12:00 PM on February 12, 2005
I searched and it seems like there was a new version released around 2001, there are screenshots here
on Amazon.
posted by Boobus Tuber at 12:00 PM on February 12, 2005
There were lots and lots of Myst clones out there, some memorable, and some not. A friend and I enjoyed The Journeyman Project series a bit.
At first I thought you were thinking about the Incredible Machine as well. Was this game a first-person adventure game, like Myst was?
posted by icontemplate at 12:34 PM on February 12, 2005
At first I thought you were thinking about the Incredible Machine as well. Was this game a first-person adventure game, like Myst was?
posted by icontemplate at 12:34 PM on February 12, 2005
Have you tried searching The Home of the Underdogs database to see if it is there?
posted by Navek Rednam at 1:06 PM on February 12, 2005
posted by Navek Rednam at 1:06 PM on February 12, 2005
Response by poster: It's not the Incredible Machine (which is a great, fun game as well). The graphics on the one in question are much, much more refined and not so cartoon-y.
icontemplate, I'm not so sure if it was a first-person type game. From the brief glimpse I had, I'm not sure there was really an "objective" overall. It was simply puzzles with increasing difficulty.
I'm going to go through the Home of the Underdogs as Navek Rednam recommended and see if there's anything in there.
posted by purephase at 3:08 PM on February 12, 2005
icontemplate, I'm not so sure if it was a first-person type game. From the brief glimpse I had, I'm not sure there was really an "objective" overall. It was simply puzzles with increasing difficulty.
I'm going to go through the Home of the Underdogs as Navek Rednam recommended and see if there's anything in there.
posted by purephase at 3:08 PM on February 12, 2005
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posted by donth at 10:28 AM on February 12, 2005