Wtf? It's free now? I faintly remember backing this on kickstarter or indiegogo or whatever, or maybe getting it off of indiegamestand or desura or something. But now it's free?

And didn't the game used to be different? I remember there being completely different levels, being able to reprogram so many different things instead of just red cubes, which made the game feel way less restrictive, and there was even a programming gun. A programming gun is way cooler than the Doom 3 soul cube we have now. In fact, the entire game was cooler. Including the fact there was even a Linux port back then.

The Glitchspace we have now sucks, though. It gets SO tedious, and feels SO restrictive, and the menus require SO much clicking, and the levels are SO big and open and it takes way too long to get anywhere. Seriously, did the levels need to be this big and open? There are so many paths don't even go anywhere or do anything. Entire staircases lead to nowhere. There's whole set-pieces you never do anything with. Am I here to program or do some sightseeing?

To simplify this: Giant open areas like this are NOT atmospheric. They're just a time sink. Please respect my personal time.

Also, let's stop for a moment and savor the fact a game about programming, presumably for programmers by programmers, blatantly violates an age old golden rule that every programmer has already known for decades: NEVER require more than 3 clicks to access anything through your interface. If somebody needs to go more than 3 clicks deep to access something, then you have failed. And since you start reprogramming cubes by right-clicking them, that's 1 click already consumed. So of course the main gameplay mechanic will get tedious very quickly.

To simplify this: The programming interface is in dire need of an overhaul. Minimize the clicks.

The cheapskate in me is mad that I paid for something that's free, but the socialist in me is glad I helped give something to humanity. I just wish I could have given humanity the earlier version instead, because this one is a tedious, boring time sink.

It reminded me of a game called superliminal because the puzzles are creative and has weird features

As a programmer, this game completely misrepresents programming: programming is about automation, taking a tedious repetitive task and automating it so you do as little work as possible. This game does the opposite: takes a simple task (object manipulation) and makes it tedious with programming-like interface, which, by the way, is extra bad. I only played 39m, but I watched the end of its walkthrough to see if I should expect anything interesting if I decide to play more: no, more mechanics are added, but at its core it’s still not automation.

The quality of this game is also absolutely horrendous. In my short playtime I encountered:

• Not being able to run it on my Mac, despite the graphics being very simple
  
• Programming nodes, which didn’t work until I recreated them
  
• Critical block (first “flow” blocker) which was present in walkthrough, but absent in my playthrough,
  
• and me being able to somehow pass that section without that block
  
• Respawn death loop: game respawns you on a block which launches you immediately right to death, and then the game respawns you on this same block, which launches …

The exact last one (and many more) Dravvad wrote in the review back in 2017, it’s still not fixed in 2024 and will never be - the game is dead.

The game is free, but it’s not worth your time.

if your looking for a fun little puzzle game that uses some concepts in programming and that also has some minor platforming than this is the perfect game for you. even though i personally never actually finished the game (admittedly because this is just not the games that i am into), i still had fun with this game. there arent any glitches or game breaking bugs and it was a very well polished and well made puzzle game.

Great game, one of the kind

fun puzzle game

very bad ergonomy while programming

Free game but it's as good as any paid one. You should get this and play it; the concept, the gameplay, are both great.

Cool concept, but extremely limiting at times, especially the early levels. For a game that's supposed to test your creativity/problem solving skills, it has frustrating boundaries and limitations that pull you down to a more linear experience.

Ok, but no better than that