Reviewers Liked
- Really cool dimensional mechanic
- Nice art design
- Affordable
- Various dimensions have fun properties
- Numerous smart
- Challenging puzzles
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Uninteresting world
- Poor ending
- Some weak platforming elements
Quantum Conundrum
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Expert reviews and ratings
By TechSpot
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Let's just get this out of the way: Yes, Quantum Conundrum is a first-person puzzler, just like Portal. Yes, it was designed by Kim Swift, the project lead on Portal. And yes, it shares some of Portal's core traits: there's a physics-altering arm...
By GamePlanet
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Anyone expecting anything close to the quality of Portal for fifteen bucks will be sorely disappointed. If approached as a distraction, disappointment may be mitigated to somewhere around "mild", and small pockets of enjoyment may...
By New Game Network
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78
A solid puzzler with some interesting aspects involving four different dimensions. Expanding the solutions and employing more forgiving platforming would have improved the...
By PC Advisor
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As a £10 game made by a tiny team in just year, Quantum Conundrum is well worth checking out and there's no doubt that we need more games like it. It's just such a shame it dropped so many critical balls - it comes so close to greatness but undermines...
By Strategy Informer
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You’ve got to hand it to Kim Swift: she sticks to her principles. After guiding the fantastic Portal to creation, the moment she found out Valve didn’t want to experiment with non-portal-based puzzles for the sequel she jumped ship. No matter how...
By cnet
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70
Quantum Conundrum's nutty interdimensional experiments don't go off without a hitch, but this inventive first-person puzzler still produces some enjoyable...
By Cheat Code Central
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Up until now, the Portal games have had the 3D first-person puzzle genre pretty much to themselves. But no longer. Kim Swift, one of the main brains behind Portal—she helped create Narbacular Drop, the student project Portal was based on, and served...
By Destructoid
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100
Quantum Conundrum is a wacky Portal-like puzzle game centered around a weird science contraption that switches dimensions. It's whimsical, fun, well made, well written, it controls well, and it's a blast to play. It's almost flawless. The puzzles...
By GameSpy
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Quantum Conundrum is many things -- an innovative puzzler, a follow-up project from Portal's Kim Swift, a lesson in bad parenting skills. Seriously, who leaves their kid on the doorstep of a crazy uncle whose house is a labyrinth of murderous puzzles?...
By Games Radar
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Here’s a tip: if you’re leaving one of the most influential developers in the industry, it had better be to work on something as cool as Quantum Conundrum. In 2009, Portal creator Kim Swift left Valve to pursue a new IP with Airtight Games. We’re now...
By gotgame.com
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I'd have to say that Quantum Conundrum is a fun game to pick up and play. Hardcore gamers may get some enjoyment out of it but there aren't any guns guns in this game, just a glove that can put you in a dimension of cute fluffy things or one that slows...
By GameZone
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Quantum Conundrum has some massive shoes to fill. Being the next puzzle game from the mind of Kim Swift, Project Lead on the original Portal, is perhaps the biggest shoes a $15 project could try to step into. In a lot of ways, Quantum Conundrum feels...
By Blogcritics
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It is funny what jumps out at you as you sit down to play a demo of a game. Trying out Quantum Conundrum, the upcoming game from Portal creator Kim Swift, I was wowed by the dulcet tones of the narrator Professor Fitz Quadwrangle. "Is that John de...
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