Update after completing the game. Although this list is a lot of negatives, I think the game was definitely worth its asking price. It really needed some ironing out, but the execution is otherwise amazing.

+ Voiceacting is good. Cartoony as hell, but good.
+ Art style is cool. Also cartoony.
+ Animations are fairly smooth.
+ The setting and story are both unique and GREAT, and I wouldn't hesitate to describe the whole game as "cute."
+ The puzzle solving mechanics are very interesting. There's a lot of unique abilties you have, and they each have a different cost. There are usually several different ways to approach every situation, and you have to think ahead to avoid wasting certain resources.
+ Failure doesn't usually mean a lot of restarting - it usually means you'll have to try again a different way, since you've wasted resources.
+ The difficulty ramp has a good, satisfying feel to it.
+ I love and look forward to the dialogue. It can be cheesy, but it knows that.
+ The characters aren't incredibly remarkable, but they certainly aren't boring templates.

- VERY buggy. Enemies can get stuck in unreachable places, entire areas can become uncompleteable(although you can reset an area if that does happen), green goo is sometimes instadeath, sometimes not(something that I speculate has to do with getting stuck between non-square hitboxes), there are several buggy animations and behaviors in some enemies, and yet other enemies' movement is too wonky for a perfect clear to be worthwhile.
- Damage is not always properly communicated. If you're not paying attention, you won't notice that leptons and bombs actually do hurt SC. Sometimes, green goo makes it look like it didn't damage you because nothing really happens - but it did.
- The procedural generation of the main areas is unfortuantely not quite as interesting as it sounds, because you get so many resources that there is little to no challenge in any of the puzzle portions - it's all platforming, navigating and not being chewed up by electrons.
- SFX are just a tad annoying.
- Camera movement is awful in some zones.
- Jumping control takes a while to get used to. You can usually stop on a dime, but you gain momentum in a very unstable manner.
- It feels like there's a lot of unused potential in the way antiquarks act.
- Short play length - about nine hours if you're not unrealistically going for a perfect clear. Fifteen to twenty hours in that case.

This astrophysics major definitely recommends this game. The humor is AMAZING, and I definitely love the theme--there aren't many games with living subatomic particles out there.
The game provides a good platforming challenge, especially the "RUN!" levels, where you're forced to come up with combos on the fly.

There are a few design elements that are a bit strange, though. I can understand why the neutrinos are invisible, but where are the photons? You got gluons and W & Z bosons, but no photons?! Also I have NO idea why a tauon would eat you when it has zero size to begin with....and the strange matter apocalypse is ruled out by cosmic ray collisions. Just saying.

But video game wise, this thing is really really good.
Now I just have to pitch that idea for an RPG where you combine atoms into molecules and make them fight each other...

This is one of my first reviews and it may be positively up quarkian in nature. I caught a fleeting glimpse of the title of this game and I knew that it must be mine; it was one of the best decisions I have ever made. The humor and style of the game feels like a nostalgic take on platformers from the 80's - 90's, such as Earthworm Jim / Gex / Star Fox, while the modern upkeep on the gameplay and art style is sophisticated and smooth. As big a draw as the wise cracking protagonist, the spiffy art, or the silky gameplay may be the best part of this game by far is the SCIENCE NERD HUMOR OMG!

If you are a nerd, a geek, a science dork, if you ever knocked someone out with a science textbook before.... this is the game for you! It's challenging, engaging, and dear fluffy Cthulhu funny.

I really wanted to like this game, and I really tried. But, sorry, no amount of good puns and funny jokes can overcome the terribly loose controls. None of the "puzzles" are particularly difficult, but they are overly tedious. Additionally, "zooming out" does not zoom out to show enough of the area to be all that useful. If you are looking for an exercise in frustration, you may enjoy this game; otherwise, stay away.

I am not even confident I finished the game. After getting through the nucleus I got a blank black screen (just like I did when I first started). I figured it was another broken cut-scene for which the workaround is to quit and reload. After doing so, I was in "invisible cat mode" and could only scroll across the screen, no interacting with anything. Eventually, the camera would pan for enough right that my invisible cat would plummet to its death. Kind of a fitting end for Schrödinger’s Cat, really.

If you want a game with cats, platforming, puzzles and a day out at the Particle Zoo, you can't go far wrong with Schrodinger's Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark.

To start with the good things - the tutorial introduces you to Schrodinger's Cat and the issues the Particle Zoo is having and gets you familiar with the different Quarks you'll collect and their quirks (I had to, I'm sorry). The different quarks can be used to help you navigate the challenges you'll come across – 3 Up/Movement quarks will combine to make a helicopter that will lift you, 3 Bottom/Construction Quarks will make a platform to stand on, 3 Down/Destruction Quarks will make a drill that removed ground from beneath you and 3 Top/Protection Quarks will make a protective bubble around you. Why 3? You can combine the quarks together in ways that are fairly intuitive – Combining 3 quarks of Up/Movement and Down/Destruction will create a missile you can fire. Or Up/Movment, Down/Destruction, and Top/Protection will make a bomb you can throw. There's 14 combinations in all and they use the appearance of the different quarks to help make them more memorable. They can be seen at any time in game at any time with the start button once you've done them so if you forget one you can easily check.

The game gives you free platforming areas between the different 'enclosure' areas (which are much more puzzle based). It's relatively easy to build up a small army of quarks to navigate the areas and take on the (optional) task of capturing all of the rogue particles and although they work well for a chance to practice different quark combinations it felt like a lot of backtracking between the enclosures. That might have been that it seemed to give me very similar areas but that might be bad luck on my part with the game's random generation of the zones or might be because of the similar appearance of the terrain.

The puzzle sections are a welcome change from them and my favourite part of the game. More limited in quarks but interesting problems to overcome and thinking time isn't an issue. The later enclosures need a little more thinking but it's still satisfying to overcome.

The last main section type is chase style encounters that will challenge you to find the right combinations quickly to avoid being eaten by the creatures that are chasing you. Depending on how good you are at these, they'll either be very fun or highly frustrating as you find yourself back at the beginning of the section, going through the same motions to get back to the part you messed up.

There's a lot of humour in the game and unique designs for each of the quarks and characters in the game that make it easy to tell things apart and help keep things fresh as the plot progresses.

The game is voiced by A.J. LoCascio and although he has the task of voicing all the characters he does an excellent job giving everyone their own character and style. I honestly didn't realise it was just one voice actor until seeing it in the credits.

I only encountered two bugs during my playthrough, one was just visual at the end of a chase section where it the game didn't appear to load the rest of the chasing creature. The other was an instance of the game not making enough quarks in a puzzle section but it was easily remedied with reloading the checkpoint. Certainly nothing serious in my experience.

I completed the game in under 8 hours but I enjoyed it, it's probably closer to 5/6 hours if you're good at platforming games. I'd certainly recommend it on sale but it's not a bad deal even at its full price.

I wish I could forego the yes/no rating for this one.

Basically, it's an interesting if tedious platformer with more glitches than it should have, an annoying protagonist, obnoxious physics puns and non-puns, a mostly appealing visual design, and some genuinely novel (if unpolished) ideas.

I think the designers here were trying for a light-hearted game but at the last minute changed the Cat's facial expression in an attempt to be edgy or something. Notice in most of the screenshots that he's baring his teeth and frowning like he's in the middle of a medically serious bout of constipation? Yeah, he's like that for the whole game. He could've been cute if they'd just embraced it.

And then he won't shut up. Every time you take damage, die, pick up a Charm quark, or cross a checkpoint, he's yelling his little fool head off. In fact, everyone's like this, with cutscenes and in-game dialogue going on for WAY too long and with WAY too much repetition. 2014 must not have been a great year for video game writing if this made The Writers' Guild's shortlist.

The antagonist's presence isn't even explained. Where did he come from? How did he get here? What exactly is his plan? None of these are adequately answered in the first playthrough, and I don't care enough to slog through a second (though, to their credit, they did change up the dialogue for the second playthrough).

And a side note: this game will not teach you about quantum physics. They simply used the names and concepts therein for inspiration; this is not an educational game in the slightest.

If you're a fan of platform games and want to try something new, you might catch this on sale. Otherwise, I'd let this one pass.

⠀

Its fun, the science jokes and voice acting are both awesome, and the game runs smoothly and beautifuly. If only the game wasn't so buggy that it was unplayble. Quarks that were nessasary to complete the level would not spawn, enemies could jump out of the world to avoid me, and at high speeds I could clip through walls. A few patches are needed badly, but if the bugs are fixed this game would be worth the money!

EDIT: no.
As I breezed my way through the game, I realized that this game is not worth it. Having just finished the game, most of it was moderatly easy (with execption to the runner levels). However, the final boss and the ending cutscence were terrible. More glitches, more going through walls and overall more cheap deaths from the running sections really soured this game for me. Also the final boss was defeated using none of the mechanics I learned in-game, which is not how any game should end. I should also add that the recent patch didn't even fix a single bug (that I noticed).
While the game has some redeming factors and a high framerate throughout (even when I cranked up the options) it was utterly a waste of my time.

I'm enjoying this puzzley platformer so far. One thing that surprised me about this game is that it has a conversation system with well animated and voice acted characters. That's not something I'm used to in a platformer and along with solid character writing it gives the game a lot of it's charm, no pun intented (though uh... this game has a ton of physics puns).

Also, the player character (Schrödinger’s Cat) uses "time to make the donuts" as a catchphrase which is totally awesome in my book.

Played until the first section where you need to conserve your quarks or be forced to restart. Over and over. And over.

The game would sometimes register double presses with my Steam Controller, leading to the wrong quark combinations
being made, and thus: Restart. Over and over. And over.

Well the joke is on the game, it's getting a negative review and I won't ever play it again. HA HA!