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Filament

Plattform: PC Veröffentlicht: 23.04.2020

16,49€

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Irgendwo dort draußen lässt sich die Wahrheit finden.

Gehe an Bord der Alabaster, eines der Vorzeigeforschungsschiffe der Filament Corporation, und versuche, es wieder unter Kontrolle zu bringen, nachdem eine geheimnisvolle Störung zur Abriegelung des Schiffes und zum Verschwinden der Besatzung geführt hat.

Bei deinem Versuch herauszufinden, was der Besatzung widerfahren und warum sie verschwunden ist, kannst du lediglich auf die Unterstützung „Wacholders“ – der angeschlagenen Pilotin des Schiffes – zählen, und wirst dich teuflisch schwierigen Rätseln stellen müssen, die dich an die Grenzen deiner Fähigkeiten bringen.

Ein Einzelspielertitel mit komplexen, gleichzeitig aber extrem süchtig machenden Rätseln. Stelle dich der Herausforderung, die Alabaster zu betreten – und dann derjenigen, wieder von Bord zu gehen.

ERKUNDEN:
Erkunde das Schiff ungehindert und löse dabei über 300 herausfordernde und abwechslungsreiche Rätsel, die du in (nahezu) beliebiger Reihenfolge angehen kannst.

LÖSEN:
Während du das Schiff erkundest und Rätsel löst, stehst du in ständigem Kontakt mit „Wacholder“. Indem sie sich dir schrittweise öffnet, erfährst du mehr über sie, ihre Besatzung und das, was sich an Bord der Alabaster ereignet hat.

NACHFORSCHEN:
Suche auf dem Schiff nach Tagebüchern, Nachrichten, Aufzeichnungen, persönlichen Gegenständen und Krimskrams der Besatzung, während du versuchst herauszufinden, was sich an Bord der Alabaster abgespielt hat. Erfahre, wer die Mitglieder der Besatzung waren, und finde dadurch vielleicht heraus, warum sie das Schiff verlassen haben.

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LANG: Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch, Russisch, Chinesisch (vereinfacht), Japanisch, Chinesisch (traditionell), Koreanisch, Brasilianisches Portugiesisch

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GFX: 2GB AMD Radeon R9 280, 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 or better
RAM: 8 GB RAM
Software: 64-bit Windows 7, 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1) or 64-bit Windows 10
HD: 1 GB available space
LANG: Englisch, Französisch, Deutsch, Russisch, Chinesisch (vereinfacht), Japanisch, Chinesisch (traditionell), Koreanisch, Brasilianisches Portugiesisch

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342 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 14.03.21 23:02

An sich ein Interessantes Spiel mit vielen Rätzeln. Der Schwierigkeitsgrad steigert sich von Level zu Level. Ich bin dabei an meine Grenzen gestoßen.

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866 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 20.08.20 14:44

This game really is something special. Very good puzzles and more than once I had to pause because my brain started to smoke. :D

It has an intersting backstory if you are able to find all the logs and the environmental puzzles are the hardest ones I ever saw in any game.

This is one of the games where you don't need to rate the graphics. It is more than sufficient as it is.

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288 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 29.05.20 10:35

Filament ist ein Puzzler mit einem außergewöhnlichen Konzept. Obwohl mir die Puzzles überaus gut gefallen, finde ich, dass der Schwierigkeitsgrad für meinen Geschmack zu schnell ansteigt. Das mag vielleicht jetzt an meinem eigenen Unvermögen liegen und andere Vollblutpuzzler finden sich hier besser zurecht, aber ich bezweifle, dass nicht irgendwann bei jedem ein kurzer Frustmoment auftaucht.

Trotzdem finde ich das Konzept, die Spielumgebung und auch die Puzzles sehr gelungen und einzigartig, weswegen ich Filament auf jeden Fall weiterempfehlen möchte. Für den günstigen Preis kann man mit diesem Game nichts falsch machen.

Mein komplettes Review könnt ihr hier lesen Filament: Schief gewickelt ... oder doch nicht?

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815 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.05.20 00:42

Geniestreich!

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1501 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.08.23 03:03

it's tite...but maybe a little too tite. If it wasn't too tite, then it'd be perfectly tite.

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1360 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 25.07.23 23:45

A simple concept explored deeply. Top notch.

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2415 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.07.23 20:50

Extreme thumbs up for an absolute gem of a puzzle game. Gave me a taste of what made the Witness so great. I will say a few of the endgame puzzles are pretty questionable, but overall a massively positive experience.

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604 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.04.23 20:03

I honestly think this is the hardest puzzle game I have ever played. A serious challenge

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497 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 24.04.22 09:17

Hard but intuitive. A excellent puzzle game with calm music and good narration.
The only thing i want to complain about is how the room commentary narration sound is a bit more muted than the progress narration.

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290 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 17.04.22 05:09

Puzzles feel more trial and error than skill based sadly. Opening puzzles were good and communicated the rules well, however as puzzles become more complex there are so many possible paths that are sabotaged very close to the solution in ways that are extremely difficult to foresee.There is an obvious comparison to The Witness, however in that game you can usually apply the rules as you go to complete puzzles. I really wanted to like this but didn't find much satisfaction in the more difficult puzzles.

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3239 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 02.04.22 18:13

one of the best puzzle game that i ever played

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144 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 31.03.22 16:41

It's a fine game with challenging puzzles, but it lacks any real eureka moments, more often being rewarded for persistence rather than guile. Most every level comes down to trial-and-error, and there's no good way to visualize if a cable will be taut enough around to register a pillar or if your bot can squeeze through a tight space.

Or maybe I'm just dumb. Game is a little too cerebral and slow for me, just missing element that makes me feel clever and motivated to tackle the larger puzzles.

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304 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.03.22 17:23

I don’t like this game, maybe I am just too dumb for it, but it's neither fun nor that interesting, at first it seems like an interesting concept but it's the same over and over again and most of the time it's just guessing or/and trial and error, also I found the hints not that helpful but I’ll credit where credit is due, the atmosphere of the game is pretty charming

everything other than the core gameplay is pretty cool

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1006 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.02.22 20:49

I can only recommend this game if you are REALLY REALLY into puzzle games. It is extremely repetitive, and quite long.

The game is competently made (save for occasional bug where the line from robot just stops following you, requiring you to reset the puzzle) and the music is nice, but it just isn't for me.

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74 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 02.02.22 23:25

Yet another game I really want to recommend and yet I can't.

The concept of stringing a wire around levels is interesting. The game introduces new game elements at a steady pace to keep things interesting. I enjoyed the first couple of dozen puzzles but then the flaws of the game became apparent.

As others have pointed out, the puzzle solving is mostly a case of trial and error. The difficulty ramps up fairly quickly as well. What makes the trial and error aspect particularly frustrating is the game display - you wander around levels that are quite large, so trying out solutions takes ages. Worse, you often can't see the whole level.

I think I would have enjoyed this game more if the levels were all single screen and you used the mouse to string the filament around.

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221 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 18.01.22 12:49

While Filament has a great mechanic and puzzle design is fresh and interresting... I cannot recommand it because the difficulty curve is brutal and solution finding is more trial and error than real thinking. It will please only a specific type of brains... be careful before buying.

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147 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 10.01.22 13:28

Filament is a top-down puzzle game sets into a Sci-Fi ship. The player can explore the entire ship, investigate the story to reveal the truth and solve the puzzles. It's filled with a lot of puzzles and accompanied by a wonderful soundtrack.

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101 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.12.21 21:05

actually difficult well built puzzles (for a gamer, non of this too ez stuff)- lovely design
its what you would want form it, what you would want to expect- haven't even played too much

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28 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 05.11.21 11:33

At least early on, the puzzles are mostly trial and error. This wouldn't be much of an issue if you didn't move so slowly. You're not just slow in the puzzles either; you move slowly through the hub area which is pointlessly large, and the game stops you from moving forward to play dialogue at you, even when that could have been done during a puzzle or in the hub. Overall, this game doesn't respect your time.

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1115 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.10.21 12:25

So much of this game is good, but there are a few intentional quality of life omissions that I just don't understand.

1) There's an overhead view for the puzzles, but the character movement gets locked for no reason.

2) Puzzle movement speed is slow.

3) Puzzles don't follow a predictable grid, meaning that it's always a gamble whether a diagonal line will touch a corner, or if the bot will be able to squeeze between something later.

The game is already hard, and these points make it so much less predictable and solvable without just wandering around and trying out combinations. I much prefer the puzzles that are smaller and easier to predict, even when they can be just as difficult as the larger puzzles.

I really love the storytelling and the spaceship. And frankly I'd be happy to swap the review to a positive if the devs unlock movement during the overhead view!

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1490 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.09.21 21:37

When I play a puzzle game, I want to feel the satisfaction of solving the puzzles, but I didn't get that with this game. It came down to trial and error rather than logic and reasoning. Also thrown in is a mystery which is slowly revealed through crew logs you get access to from solving puzzles. By the time I accessed the ship's bridge, I found the puzzles so tedious, I used a guide to finish the rest. I was hoping the mystery had a satisfying end, but instead I found it too open-ended and anti-climatic. There were a couple things I liked, mainly the art style and the environmental puzzles.

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3733 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.09.21 20:36

My brain hurts
On positive note, after the tutorial levels most of the ship is open for you to explore (which means you don't have to bang your head on the wall once you're stuck on one puzzle, actually trying other puzzles might give an idea how to solve that one)
Soundtrack is noice and calm

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849 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 21.08.21 13:01

It was good fun for 10 hours but after a while the whole process of trial and error gets old, and although bringing in a new gimmick freshens things up a bit, the freshness is lost by the time you have completed 2 anchors of that type. The environmental puzzles were fun, though not all of the ones I found were very intuitive, like in The Witness.

The story didn't feel intriguing. The story is progressed via card codes you gain by completing each anchor. In principle this sounds good, but in practice it's irritating. You get the codes in mixed order, and singular pieces don't give enough context to make reading them satisfying. On other hand reading 6 entries for single week doesn't feel very satisfying either, since you have lots of redundant messages between the members. Sometimes there are differences between these messages, as crew member has privately commented the message to another, and since these are hard to distinguish without opening the message, you end up opening them all anyway just to make sure. Each crew member also has their personal log / diary they write things up during the week, but these often feel very out of context, even after reading all the messages for the week. There is also the monologue provided by Juniper when you complete anchor, or stumble upon a story point, but these are generally just idle rambling.

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2841 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 10.08.21 05:06

Filament is a bittersweet puzzle game with challenging line-based logic puzzles.

The puzzles are presented in a 3-D plane and the player must use a series of robots connected to the wall to wrap around pillars in the correct manner to solve the puzzle and unlock the door. Completing a series of puzzles reveals more of the story through emails from the crew and Juniper reminiscing over the intercom.

The rules of puzzles are taught through the use of simple rooms, where players are able to experiment and deduce the rules of each section before moving ahead to the complex puzzles. I found this to be very effective, and create a sense of accomplishment, as if the rules themselves were a puzzle to solve too. Controlling the robots in order to solve the puzzle feels smooth, especially when using the run option (Which is toggled on/off by pressing Shift, I found this to not be clearly defined in the game). Backtracking and resetting options are quick allowing for quick reattempts of sections or entire puzzles, as there is inevitably some trial and error. There is some frustration when the robot looks like it should fit through a gap or it doesn’t, or the angle of a filament is slightly different than anticipated, but it is part of the puzzle to find a solution that works.

The games visuals are simple but effective, presenting key information within the puzzles, and in the spaceship over-world. The puzzle rooms themselves are kept very simple, with the robot, cable, and pillars all conveying exactly what they need to the player – most notably whether a pillar is active or inactive, and clues as to how to activate them. The spaceship is where story elements unfold, and it more crowded, full of rooms, and details that bring this world to life. It sets the atmosphere and tone throughout the game, and it is easy to believe that a crew lived and worked on this ship. Secret puzzles can be found, and input into the computers in the over-world. However, some are ridiculously hard to figure out, and I will admit I used a guide for that final achievement.

I found the story to be compelling, all the characters of the crew felt very human, though it was not the focal point of the game experience. What kept me coming back to the game was the desire to solve each puzzle, and the sense of accomplishment that came with each solved room.

I recommend the game specifically if the style of puzzle appeals to you, and you're up for a challenge.

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104 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 19.07.21 05:45

Filament is pretty good. Some have praised it for how tricky it can be... BUT I think many are blinded by the fact they are being thrown to a setting where in most instances you are even told whats going on. The objective or challenge changes quite a bit in Filament. One moment you will be wrapping around certain pillars in order, rapping around pillars to light up certain other pillars, making certain pillars certain colors, following a line in which you cant wrap around on pillar to a particular other pillar blah blah blah. A lot of this can be dumbed down and explained from the beginning. Others, are too vague. It feels unfair and annoying not knowing certain principles when trying to figure out a puzzle. Its like playing a game and not being told or understanding the rules. This is where Filament mostly falls hard for me, except for one other thing I will mention next.

Repetition and trial and error. Most seek a mental challenge, maybe at best, an intuitive experience. Take portal for instance, Portal is brilliant because it creates scenarios where you look around the environment and think: How can I accomplish this? You will look around for instance in many ways, how can I bounce here to put a portal here, how can I get to this point where I don't walk through this field and lose my portals, how do I bring a cube here, how can I catch this here, how can I take out these guns. It actually makes you think smart, sometimes fast in a situation and even testing your intelligence. Filament is not doing that, one could argue it comes to tastes when it comes to puzzle games. A good horror game to me is one that sets tension and fear through environment for instance, not something that jump scares you for a 5 second jump in your chair. Filament doesn't do it for me, I was hoping that things would be done a bit different, sadly do I see this game is mostly the type of puzzle game that is trial and error. It doesn't really matter if you are a glowing brain genius, or not. You will fail you will have to try again, you will have to find the route. In a few of these they are quite good, in a few of these... Its trial and error, nothing more. It doesn't make you feel good, you find OH I CAN SLIP THROUGH THIS SMALL SPACE or... I CANT SLIP THROUGH THIS SMALL SPACE!!! This is what breaks if for me. This will be one of those rare actions where I give something a good review for a not recommended. It doesn't do that type of puzzle game for me. It also, I think arguably in general is flawed for that reason, even if you like that type of game, it still has mechanics and environments that need better explaining or better made that you don't feel like you just have to see how the environment reacts to your little raps and turns.

7/10 - I couldn't give it any lower, what is here is a game that kind of did deserve those rewards it received, but also struggles to hold good explanations, principles and follows a formula of trial and error.

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1191 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.06.21 21:07

Frustrating because things look like they'll touch/line up/solve the puzzle, but /just/ ever so slightly don't fit your character back through. Makes the experience cumbersome and tiring.

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1976 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 23.05.21 10:19

It's a clever puzzle game. Maybe too clever. Some of the rule variations make the puzzles too complex, so that you can't really analyze the entire thing at once and it turns into a guessing game. Thankfully you don't have to complete every single puzzle to see the ending.

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1732 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 10.05.21 19:08

If I had a nickel for every time I played a game where I found and decoded little bits of hidden information scattered around a ship in order to piece together the narrative of what happened there, Id have 2 nickels! which isn't a lot but its weird that it happened twice.

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638 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 08.05.21 12:06

Filament is very close to being a great game, but the fact is that it is not.

There are many very good negative reviews pointing many of the flawed aspects of the game (quality of life thins, puzzle mechanics, etc) but I will add just one that I did not found elsewhere:

The game is mainly split into two different tipes of puzzles. One of them is the main puzzles. These are the ones with fundamental mechanical flaws that make (the hardest of them) more of a backtracking exercise than a logical problem. The thing here is that if you do all of them and learn everything there is to learn, you would still find yourself having a comparable work in a 2nd playthrough (lets say in another year or so...). That to me is very bad, and the inverse is what makes a game like The Witness (with only a handful of these bad puzzles), for instance, a masterpiece.
The other kind of puzzle I found out to be very logical (albeit having some kind of arbitrary logic testiness to them sometimes) and rewarding to find scattered in the map (the first kind is obviously stacked someplaces, these ones are kind of hidden from plain view).
The fundamental problem that I want to highlight is that the story follows the completion of the first set of puzzles, while the second one just unlock tiny bits of almost useless chit-chat information about the world that seems to be **entirely unnecessary** to the completion of the game.
So, in the end, I was having a lot of fun doing the completely unnecessary things and was just doing chores in order to advance the story until I hit the point I just didn't care anymore.

As I said, this title is very close to being a really good game, but the way it is right now, is more like a chore than a delight.

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311 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 04.05.21 08:39

I wanted to like Filament. It looks great, there's a mystery in the story that intrigued me, and some of the puzzles are fun and challenging. Overall, though, the puzzles are inconsistent, with some sets being really easy all the way through, some being just challenging enough that if you figure out the logic you can solve them, and some of them that don't seem to make sense in how they respond to my attempts to figure out how they work. After about 5 hours I got tired of the third kind and gave up.

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241 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 03.05.21 10:01

Graphics are pretty enough.
Story is... well I mean there's a story there, so that's okay I guess? Most of it is told through the medium of the ship's logs, so if you're happy to read a novella in between puzzles then good for you, I prefer stories that show, don't tell.
The puzzles themselves though?

I've never once felt a sense of achievement when finishing a puzzle. The vast majority of the time I've felt like I've kind of intuitively bumbled through them, and when that hasn't worked it's felt like a brute force exercise.
This game doesn't leave you feeling clever when you smash it on the first attempt, it leaves you feeling lucky.
It doesn't leave you feeling clever when you finally get it on the 100th attempt either, because you've just thrown poop at a wall until it sticks.

There are also minor issues with not clearly providing the player with sufficient information about what a particular move will do until you do it. Whether there is just enough gap to backtrack between a pillar and the filament or whether it's just a tiny bit too tight is entirely down to trial and error. Which happens in a lot of the puzzles.

Most puzzle games give you that dopamine hit to just go one more puzzle until suddenly it's 4am and you have made a grave mistake in not going to sleep. This one doesn't.

Probably the most telling thing about why this is a frustrating example of the genre is that people can offer you solutions to individual puzzles, but not a method that you can apply to solve them yourself.
The closest someone got was a post talking about some archaic graphing maths, which might be useful to a maths nerd, but to us mere mortals might as well be glyphs on papyrus.

I cannot recommend this game. I doubt I will ever finish this game.
Save yourself the time and frustration on what is essentially a poor idea for a puzzle game which has been beautifully executed.

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1162 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 12.03.21 12:12

It's a puzzle game, and a good one. I like it. It can be hard sometimes, but the puzzles are well layed out. The idea is basically to draw a line around every pole, without crossing your own line. Although that sounds simple, it can get very hard to draw the lines without boxing yourself in, or forgetting one pole. And the puzzles vary. From basic 'a line around every pole', to 'coloured poles that you need to do each colour first', to 'touch the poles a specific number of times', to 'poles open walls you need to use in order'.

And there is kind-of a story. Basically you walk around a space ship, where the only other inhabitant is talking to you, telling you what happened on the ship and about her life. In the spaceship you walk around, enjoying the scenery. Select a puzzle and solve it in the designated puzzle area.

Overall, it's a hard puzzler, and well designed.

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120 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 04.03.21 02:26

Reviews overpromised on The Witness-like, but it's nowhere near.
I can't tell if this game isn't that fun, or if failed expectation ruined it for me but I'm not enjoying it.

If I were to assume the former, this game lacks the 'eureka' feeling when solving puzzles.
That feeling isn't achieved by finding the answer, but by understanding the mechanics that lead to it. And there's no room for that in this game.

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738 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 28.02.21 17:47

Finally found a puzzler that could rival The Witness. While it is true that it is quintessentially a labyrinth type of puzzler that could be stripped down to just puzzles and put on the phone/tablet, the space station you explore; its cosy environments accompanied by the smoothing soundtrack and exposition given by the person you’re trying to save give the whole game far more engaging depth than if it was just a set of abstract puzzles alone.

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2903 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.02.21 08:02

I really enjoyed these puzzles. This game is no Baba is You or Stephen's Sausage Roll, but it did have a fully satisfying challenge. A nice mellow not too hard not too easy difficulty. You're stumped but never for long. The ending kinda blew though story wise.
Very diverse range of puzzle concepts, was never bored playing this game.

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847 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 30.01.21 13:33

Honestly though, the story is better than the puzzles themselves.

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2133 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 24.12.20 20:05

Peaceful space. Hard puzzles. A beautiful ship. Harder puzzles. An intriguing crew. And even harder puzzles.

Don't know how a game can be so infuriating as you fail and fail and fail . . . and fail again yet so relaxing as the soft sounds of the cosmos lulls you into a state of complete serenity. Truly an oxymoron of a game but worth every penny. Even if I stopped right now after 4 hours of play, I've thoroughly enjoyed every minute of playtime and it was money well spent (got it on sale but I'd definitely pay full price for it).

30 HOUR UPDATE: I was not prepared for the space expedition I had just embarked on when I wrote the first part of this review. The puzzles were intricate, complex, and exceedingly satisfying once solved and I was thoroughly enjoying the snippets of dialogue from the faceless narrator for the first 15 hours. Then I discovered the riveting story which was, yep you guessed it, hidden beneath a puzzle of its own, albeit a simple one (I'll let you figure out how to discover that on your own heh). I have almost completed the game and I still have so many questions. Will this entire mission be a failure or a breakthrough revelation? Stay tuned . . .

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1100 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 22.12.20 01:25

Game is so close to getting it right, but fails in the most critical ways and I cannot recommend this game to others. If the devs could incorporate a way of testing ideas or being able to work from other angles in a detached way then this game would be solid. The missing pieces are hard to imagine without seeing it first hand. Over looking some of the other smaller issues is easy like sound and delayed response times, but the inability to narrow the puzzles down to help better solves them is well game breaking blocking all progress and halting any enjoyment that could be felt to the point even getting the solution feel hollow and uneventful.

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2387 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 16.12.20 21:03

Variations on a puzzle theme a la The Witness with a narrator and much more fleshed out and cerebral found-story. A+ puzzler.

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2408 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 12.12.20 23:19

Don't usually bother writing Steam reviews, but after 40 hours of slugging away at this, I have to recommend it. Maddeningly difficult, but absolutely worth it.

The puzzles in this game are essentially mazes, where you have to lay a wire that touches every pole in each puzzle without crossing itself. Some of the negative reviews talk about trial and error gameplay, and there is a little bit of that, especially as you figure out how new puzzle mechanics work. But after a while, the game's logic starts to click. You realise how the wire divides the room, meaning you have to leave yourself routes for later in each puzzle. You realise how you can use a pole as a turning point so long as you take the narrowest angles around it first, meaning that you have to grab THIS pole before you grab THAT pole... The game isn't (primarily) based on guesswork - it's just very very difficult!

The narrative side of Filament is really strong, too. You're trying to free a woman named Juniper trapped in the cockpit of a recently-abandoned spaceship - but you can find the email logs of Juniper and her crewmates by entering codes scattered around the ship, and thus learn what she's not telling you. The environmental storytelling is especially brilliant. Too often game designers think that environmental storytelling means graffiti artists writing personal essays in block capitals on their living room walls, but Filament gets it right. It puts a simple thing in the wrong place, and lets you put together the devastating details for yourself. Difficult to give a good example without spoilers, but when you beat the game, it's worth coming back to explore the ship one more time, just to slap your head at everything that was hiding in plain sight.

The Witness comparisons are apt - Filament shares the same total dedication to a core concept, the same high difficulty, and the same learning-by-doing approach to teaching the player (not to mention the same secret-hiding sensibility). If you like (or want to like) The Witness but its faux-Zen attitude drives you up the wall, Filament will suit you.

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407 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 01.12.20 10:42

Fun and challenging puzzle game with a relaxing soundtrack and some interesting story bits.

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Verfasst: 01.12.20 03:03

This game is a total win. Yes, you want to pick it up. There are not many games I would recommend as wholeheartedly as I do this one!

I've had a lot of experience with these types of games, having played Portal, Portal 2, The Talos Principle, The Witness, The Turing Test, Steamroll, Lightmatter, Q.U.B.E, The Swapper, Chromagun, The Spectrum Retreat, MIND: Path to Thalmos, Etherborn, Polarity, Magrunner: Dark Pulse, and Relicta so I feel like I can speak with some leverage in the this particular niche (which happens to be my favorite!)

There is a great range in quality of puzzle games, but this is high at the top. The puzzles are challenging, satisfying, head scratching, and fun. If you want a game to rush through, this is NOT the one. There have been times already, only 3 hours in, where I have had to sit and try different possibilities of a puzzle thinking how could it possibly be solved only to realize that some particular combination (or idea) evaded me because I missed something I could do! They all seem so simple until you try and solve them! Already with the few different elements or additions to the main puzzle idea I have encountered to make things more challenging I have been impressed with. The game doesn't explicitly tell you what to do, but instead lets you discover it on your own as you go. I have seen games where this idea is frankly terrible, and games where it is totally great, and this is on the latter end because the learning curve is set right.

The game looks to be very long, based on how long it has taken me to get to where I am at and the map shown, and I am extremely excited about this, because it scratches the puzzle solving itch I have and makes me want more of the game and the story itself!

The exploration of the ship has proved useful and interesting. Hidden away are There are terminals you interact with to listen to audio, read emails, and learn more about the ship, and in that way it reminds me of the Talos Principle. You can also find collectibles if you search the ship. Your surroundings matter. I will admit that the art style of your character is not the greatest, but that's really neither here nor there.

The art of the game is simple, but visually appealing. The colors of filament add some chromatic flair!

When I first started playing, I immediately noticed was the beautiful, peaceful, addictive music. It's really something special.

Lastly, I have to talk about the price. I got this game on sale for less than $10. This game is definitely, in my humble opinion, a steal for $10. I would definitely say it could have a $30-$40 price tag and still be worth it, because all of the right elements are there to make this game worth that.

Honestly, this is a real breath of fresh air in the puzzle game industry that I didn't know I needed, but am so glad I discovered. Pick it up. Now.

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Verfasst: 30.11.20 16:22

This game makes my head hurt and I'm a programmer...

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Verfasst: 30.11.20 08:27

One of the top 3 hardest puzzle games.

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Verfasst: 26.11.20 14:48

This is such a laid back puzzler that I find myself getting lost in the sound track when taking a timeout from figuring out the problems.

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Verfasst: 26.11.20 11:52

Difficult puzzles with amazing music and a great story to go with it.

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Verfasst: 29.09.20 01:28

This is one of the best puzzle games I have played in A LONG time, For those who play many puzzle games, this is very similar to The Witness, In the sense that every puzzle works around the same base concept, for Filament this is using your little Robot within the puzzles to draw cables around pillars. For the game there Is no set order for any of the puzzles other then the typical groupings of 3 found among the ship which consist of a same style of puzzle, Later on you will find puzzles that will use the knowledge you have learned from 2 or 3 previous puzzles together in 1 which I absolutely loved. If that wasn't enough there is a narration throughout the game pushing a story line aswell as many collectables to give insight into the story and some mysteries, There are plenty of secrets hidden too and i havent found all myself but plan to. For this price £15 or £17 for marmalade edition which includes this games wonderous soundtrack which is another amazing part of this game, It is an absolute steal for anyone interested in puzzle games and those who like to push their minds to the limit which this game will surely do.

I could not recommend this game more as this has gotten my first ever review of a game and I couldn't think of a game more deserving then this to have it. I hope more will come from the developers cause this was a joy to play

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Verfasst: 18.09.20 21:26

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An amazing puzzle with a lot of content and challenges. You're on aboard a ship and have to explore and investigate what happens to it while solving the various puzzles that are around. The puzzles are based around yourself within a room being connected to a cable and have to touch these tiles and make it out of the room. It starts off rather simple as you learn the ropes as to how the game is structured but does get quite difficult indeed, like there being different colours, the tiles moving or even just the layout of the room to solve. It does become a 5head game as the game gets much more complicated and various aspects are added to the puzzles. Though it is nice that there is really an order to do them in. I went on to explore the ship and you can go ahead to do some harder ones if you wish earlier as you have access to them. The visuals looks great with the top down view and the details within the ship, as well as your little astronauts running around looks very cute. The audio/soundtracks is also quite pleasant as it has a soothing tone of music playing and solving the puzzles. Along the content of the puzzles, there are also plenty of bonuses to look out for such as various items, records and messages which adds richness to the story. Overall, it absolutely is a great puzzle game.

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Verfasst: 15.09.20 04:28

you need a big brain for this game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5AHWCmP9NE

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2672 Std. insgesamt

Verfasst: 09.09.20 00:25

Just fucking incredible.

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Verfasst: 06.09.20 20:49

Very, very good (and BIG) puzzle game that's essentially based around pathfinding, similar to The Witness. Uhh. It's very similar to The Witness in a lot of ways. Single interconnected map to explore, puzzles that exist mostly separate of the map, a story that's mostly told through collectible log entries (though there is a voiceover that will go through large chunks of the narration, albeit slower than you'll make discoveries yourself), puzzles based around a single puzzle base but with various mechanics, a non-100% but still relatively high requirement for accessing the endgame, the endgame being primarily remixes of other puzzle types (and in this case also not requiring 100% completion of all endgame puzzles), environmental puzzles that exist besides the main puzzles that are still related to the main puzzle mechanic (albeit, annoyingly, here you have to run all the way back to a terminal to solve the environmental puzzles, and a few of them are vague/confusing... and like who the hell would ever figure out that cryptography puzzle on their own, I'll freely admit to looking up the solution to that one and hints for a few others). Anyways it's not as good as The Witness (or as seamlessly designed) but it does approach that quality.

Now then, the puzzles. There's a lot of different puzzle mechanics (somewhere around 15?) and generally three sets of 5 puzzles to go through for each. Which feels like too many, honestly, considering that most every mechanic gets remixed later in the game too. I feel like three sets of 3 or 4 could've made the same point, especially when later puzzles in each set only get more complicated in terms of # of moves and can get a bit tedious sometimes. There's also a few puzzle mechanics that I just did not end up liking at all - the wrapping puzzles and arches puzzles are probably my least favorites in that regard. But like... aside from a small handful of times I had to look up a hint (usually just the first steps, half the time which I was already doing but wasn't confident about) the puzzles are fun to complete and can get pretty dang challenging. I think my single favorite puzzle in the game was Colouredscreens 3, what a beautiful puzzle that is, danggg). The bridge puzzles also maybe had a few too many varieties, some of them felt a bit samey for sure. And that Riser puzzle is kind of just... dumb. Loved the glitch and dice puzzle though, very unique ones for the game. A general issue I did have with the puzzles is that often it felt like the devs really, really wanted to force you into the one single correct solution, despite the solution-space approaching infinite due to the free movement of the game (as opposed to The Witness' grid-based system where the solution-space is much narrower). It's super not fun to have a solution that almost works except you can't quite fit through a gap between a pillar and your rope and it turns out the solution is either 1. one move different or 2. something else entirely and you have no way of really knowing which. This happens a lot and it can be kinda frustrating especially when it feels like your solution makes sense and is really clever but it turns out to not be what the game specifically wants. Really though... the vast majority of puzzles (and the environmental puzzles) are fun to solve and can get kind of addicting with how many puzzles there are (even if, again, I think the same amount of cleverness could've been condenses to a smaller number of puzzles without hurting the game).

As for the story... it's very frontloaded, since from the logs you can get pretty much the entire end-to-end narrative, barring maybe two plot points and the ending sequence, before you've even left the first floor. And it is interesting to dig through the logs and read the crew's interactions, learn their personalities, etc. though by the time you're seeing the same huge log for the 4th, 5th, 6th etc. time towards the end of the game it does lose its luster. The ending also... doesn't really explain the mysteries of the story, which is definitely really unsatisfying. The corrupted logs also mostly don't... have much to them except irrelevant flavor text and lore and again some of them are neat but most of them just kinda seem to be there to fill a quota. I dunno. TL;DR the plot is intriguing at first but doesn't end up feeling satisfying by the end.

Overall I did enjoy this game a lot even if I do have a list of issues with it. Not perfect puzzle design and maybe too many puzzles, a bit of a messy narrative, but like... it's all intriguing, fun, original, creative, clever etc. and I absolutely don't regret getting into it, was a very good time.

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Verfasst: 15.08.20 19:40

I very much wanted to like this game. Many have compared it to the Talos Principle, which is one of my favorite games of the last decade, and I'm a big fan of puzzle games in general. But Filament is just... tedious. There's no real strategy as far as I can tell, just trial and error. And while I do feel a rush after completing one of the puzzles, it's short-lived because in the end it seemed like nothing but luck and persistence got me there. Maybe I'm too dumb to get it or my mind doesn't work the way that Filament rewards, but this game is just not fun for me. Nice soundtrack, though.

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Verfasst: 07.07.20 01:08

So I don't like giving thumbs down as this is clearly a well-made game. But the main issue I have is that I have not managed to find any strategy to think my way through the puzzles. Maybe I'm too dumb to figure it out, maybe I missed something, but for me lots of trial-and-error is the only approach that ever worked for most puzzles. The inability to develop strategies and think puzzles through means in the end it's just a lot of trial-and-error, and when I solve a puzzle I don't feel smart, I just feel I got lucky after trying 20 different combinations. YMMV.

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Verfasst: 26.06.20 03:46

I've been stuck on one simple looking puzzle for nearly 20 minutes. This game has filled the hole in my heart that the witness left.

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Verfasst: 24.06.20 19:55

Man, that's a lot of puzzles. I didn't get to clearing them all, but I did clear a reasonable amount of them on my own. Some of them can actually be ridiculously challenging, exceeding what you would expect from what SEEMS like a simple puzzle game. What surprises me isn't really how hard they are to solve, but really how hard they are to think up. Once you think one idea has been used up and you've mastered a type of puzzle they come up with a bunch of different ways to get you to rethink everything. With great variety comes a few frustrating puzzles but that's just a part of any game, really. If you like to think, this is for you.

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Verfasst: 15.06.20 17:20

Filament is a narrative puzzler set aboard the spaceship Alabaster. The spaceship itself has three levels, all featuring puzzles of varying difficulty. Scattered around the ship are various consoles which you can 'plug' in to and attempt its puzzles. When you do this, you take control of a bulb (hence the 'filament' title) connected to a wire and have to navigate around a series of pillars and get to the exit. It sounds simple, and sometimes is, but you'll come to a puzzle that will confound you. Each puzzle area has three consoles, most featuring 5 puzzles. Once you complete these, you can move on to the second of the three consoles. Complete all three, you'll get an achievement, but, more importantly, a huge sense of satisfaction. The beauty of this game, like 'The Witness', is that you can approach the puzzle areas in any order. Each set of three consoles features a different gimmick, which adds variety. For example in one area, you are able to take control of more than one bulb.

As you wander the Alabaster, you uncover the mysteries of the missing crew members. There are lots of notes/emails to read, and there is a surprising amount of dialogue for a single character on an empty ship.

'Filament' is beautiful, features serene music and is such a relaxing way to pass the time. Totally recommended for anyone who likes clever puzzlers.
9/10

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Verfasst: 07.06.20 17:15

Great game with challenging puzzles. However, as somebody who heavily suffers from 3D motion sickness, the seemingly benign 3D views in this game made me feel nauseous. Wish the developers could add an option to solve puzzles from a top-down perspective -- like the one we have when pressing Tab, but also allowing player movements.

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Verfasst: 06.06.20 17:26

Hard game man. Me is too dumb to finish game.

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Verfasst: 26.05.20 07:20

A difficult puzzle game that tries to be like The Witness.

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Verfasst: 23.05.20 20:49

Brain Hurty

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Verfasst: 21.05.20 11:23

Puzzles' style and difficulty strongly remind me of The Witness. On the negative side, I still can't comprehend why game developers insist that games like this have to have a story and elements of arcade/exploration genre - running around from one puzzle to another is no fun at all. And a total waste of time.

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Verfasst: 05.05.20 23:46

Wonderful puzzles of varying difficulty, that I guarantee other players will find difficult in different ways. I got the game for my friend and it was interesting seeing how we'd have different solutions for the same puzzle, or one would have issues with a puzzle the other wouldn't. I really recommend it, the atmosphere is also perfect, the way the music integrates with the puzzles, and a few certain key areas..

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Verfasst: 05.05.20 19:31

Absolutely love this game. Brilliant puzzles and it certainly makes you think. You enter the different rooms and each of the rooms have puzzles to solve, it definitely gets your brain working and there IS a solution, but what is it? The feeling of euphoria when I finally solve it. The setting is just beautiful, with so much detail and a soothing music track to help you solve those lovely puzzles. Cannot find anything I don't like about this game. Happy solving.

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Verfasst: 03.05.20 13:52

The most Witness-like game since the Witness itself, with the sense of freedom and calm it brings to the player.

The ship is open from the very start and each series of puzzles you come across introduces a new concept for you to get your head around, while slowly expanding upon it with increasing difficulty.

Find a series of puzzles too difficult? Walk away, find another. Come back later.

The narrative is light and entirely unintrusive. The music calming and trance like.

This is the game ive been waiting for.

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Verfasst: 02.05.20 22:13

Filament is a challenging, addicting puzzle game with a unique gimmick. You are a space man aboard a ship whose previous inhabitants suffered a catastrophic project failure. It is your job to figure out what happened, and to do so you must unlock 'Anchor' structures built around the ship. Anchors that are connected to each other share the same theme. There are 15 themes. To solve each puzzle you must activate pylons scattered throughout the room by pulling a line tethered to you around the pylons so that the line contatcs the pylon. The tricky part, and what makes this game challenging at times, is that the lines cannot cross. The story is laid out for you in a similar fashion to The Talos Principle in that once you solve a set of puzzles you are given a short lore dump and an access code that unlocks more conversations the mysteriously vanished crew members had on the computer's communication system.

There is a good amount of puzzles without it feeling bloated and overlong, however the spike in difficulty and complexity between the puzzles can be a bit too much at times. Overall I feel this is a puzzle game that is well worth your time.

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Verfasst: 02.05.20 13:57

Fair warning; I've been heavily engrossed in this game since launch, and I've been spending time with the community. It probably isn't an issue, but I may have some positive bias because of that.

Filament is very good, you should get it.

People have been making comparisons to The Witness and, while those aren't unfair, Filaments puzzles look messy -- they feel more jury-rigged and untidy than The Witness's perfect solutions. There is still a strict, tight logic, often with only one correct answer, and my goodness you have to put work in to get some of them because *they are hard puzzles*... but the feeling is different. So you're not getting a clone, here.

Not to mention that unlike the Witness, Filament has a story, rather than just a vibe, and I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I did. For me, Filament's lore, character writing and plot are the best I've seen in a game in a long time. But they also don't steal the spotlight from the puzzles until later in the game, perhaps when you're ready.

The music is fine but not really to my tastes; I think I would have enjoyed something that fit the 80s aesthetic a bit more, and Filament's biggest let down is it's sound design. Many aspects of the game are missing sound cues, either in the form of generic blips and bloops, or tangible bumps and friction, as well as a general sense of atmosphere. That being said, it doesn't make a noticeable impact on the game; just lacks an extra level of polish.

Filament could be a sleeper, and that would be a shame. It's genuinely worth your time.

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Verfasst: 01.05.20 16:10

If you like one or more of the following: challenging puzzle games, codebreaking, well-written stories, fantastic chill soundtrack, secret hunting or beans, Filament is a game for you. While the tasks might seem daunting at first, soon you will have a notepad beside you to jot down series of letters and numbers to aid you in solving puzzles, and you will never look at a tangled phone charger cord the same way again. Try the free demo to see if you like it! Come to the discord if you're stuck, we will provide you with free cryptic clues!

After solving every single secret puzzle, I can report they're fantastically designed. There's a few that rely on a bit of real-life knowledge but it's never arbitrary, logical steps and rules will always provide a solution.

If you're colourblind, I have good news for you - while there are colour-mixing puzzles, there is a colourblind mode in the setting that overlays symbols on top of colours as an alternative.

If you suffer from tone deafness, there is no pitch/note/tune puzzles that seem to be inexplicably present in every other puzzle game. I know I always had to look up solutions for those and I'm happy they were omitted in Filament.

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Verfasst: 23.04.20 14:27

The best puzzle game of the year.
Nice background story, You are an astronaut who investigate abandoned spaceship and try to find out what happend.
The spaceship is huge and very detailed. The graphics are very good , beautiful surroundings everywhere, the music is really relaxing.
All puzzles look similar , you control a robot to connect those pillars with filament. The puzzles have different themes, so you wont get bored. All puzzles are well designed. About 1/3 of those puzzles are very challenging, you have to think for a while. And another 1/3 of those puzzles are quite difficult and complex, you can easliy stuck for hours. This game will definitely make you question your own intelligence.
According to the developers, the total amount of the puzzles are 300. I have played more than 42 hours and I only solved all puzzles on 3 floors, not even start the puzzles on the bridge, and there are a lot of puzzles there, and they are so far the difficult puzzles I have ever seen.
If you got stuck, you can check my walkthrough video

https://youtu.be/-NIDb6JwcZE

Update: all bridge puzzles solutions : https://youtu.be/Lg6yVeP0II0