Developer: Toxic Games
Rrp: £19.99 (Gog.com, Humblebundle, Steam and Epic)
Q.U.B.E 2 is an improvement upon the first game in everyway. The graphics are better (which given the age gap and engine change makes sense), the puzzles are more refined and surprisingly there’s an actual story going on.
Unfortunately any game that’s set in the first person perspective and has you solving puzzles is always going to compared to the duo powerhouses that are Portal and Portal 2. Those two games very much set the bar any game that makes an appearance in this genre and its a very high one.
Q.U.B.E 2 sadly doesn’t meet that particular bar, not quite. That isn’t to say that its bad, the puzzles are fun and while challenging are built up to gradually, each new mechanic that is presented starts you off with a simple task and builds up.
As I mentioned there is also a story occurring as you play, I’ll be honest its not breaking new ground with the twist as I saw that coming pretty early on but it actually made me care about the character I was playing as.
The main stumbling block I find for this is the price tag, the game isn’t all that long and for £19.99 I expect a bit more play time out of it, or at least some kind of challenge mode or something. I was lucky and managed to grab it during the period that it was free on the Epic Store.
