Antichamber

Platforms

• PC

  Jan 31, 2013

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  8.6

  playscore

  8.4

  17 Critics

  9.4

  11.6K Players

17 critic reviews · 1 community reviews across all platforms

Critic Reviews

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  Cheatcc

  8.8

  Antichamber is so much more than a first-person puzzle game. It’s indie development at its best. It’s simple in premise but it makes you question everything you know. It tells its entire story and expresses its entire theme through gameplay and gameplay alone. This is art—admittedly abstract art, but art nonetheless. If you like Portal, Quantum Conundrum, or any other first-person puzzle game, then Antichamber will make you explode with non-Euclidean delight.

  Reviewed on PC

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  Giant Bomb

  8.0

  Antichamber is a wonderfully pleasant experience that is best served in smaller chunks, which left me in my own personal nightmare: I was having such a great time that I felt like I wanted to continue playing, but I had used up all of my smarts for the evening, leaving me bumping up against puzzles that I wasn't even sure could be solved with the version of the tool I had at the time. It's a rough spot in a game with few others, but those spots seem to pop up at the most inopportune times, leaving you with the feeling that this great game still has room to improve.

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  Game Front

  9.0

  It’s the kind of game that reminds you what it is about games you like; the sort of empowerment fantasy that empowers you to learn and use your head, rather than just test the speed with which you can pound a button or line up a shot. Antichamber requires you to realign your thinking, and there’s little that’s more satisfying than breaking through the mental barrier you’ve erected for yourself to discover a solution.

  Reviewed on PC
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  Games Radar+

  8.0

  Antichamber finds strength in its simplicity. Its puzzles aren't convoluted, the solutions are usually always staring you in the face, and yet still the game is challenging. Not everyone will appreciate the game's minimalist elegance, but Alexander Bruce’s approach to game design can't be labeled as anything but clever.

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  Game Trailers

  8.7

  And while the more obvious gating puzzles aren’t as charming, Antichamber still manages to craft its conclusion to a crescendo, with the swelling geometry taking on a personality, successfully building a narrative despite a lack of story. Some of the 3D space manipulation, and dreaded first-person jumping, can fall on the side of frustrating, but the overall chill feel is never forfeited.

  Reviewed on PC
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  IGN

  8.6

  Antichamber has some of the more clever puzzles of any game I’ve played. It doesn’t have much in the way of personality, and its bizarre ending left me wondering why it was included at all, but it makes the act of exploration utterly thrilling. Each step becomes a chance to learn something new about Antichamber’s world, and you gain new skills and encounter unique and rewarding puzzles right up to the end.

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  GameSpot

  8.5

  There are moments in Antichamber that remain with you long after you've uncovered your last clue and solved your last puzzle. What has been created within its barren walls is supremely intelligent and wildly inventive, and Antichamber doesn't give up its ideals for the sake of accessibility. The few spells of frustration are fleeting and never compromise Antichamber's powerful achievements in design and style.

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  PC Gamer

  8.2

  It's a title that aspires to challenge your way of thinking and problem-solving and it's a slightly chilly and solitary experience with it. If that doesn't sound like much fun - there are certainly times it isn't - that's likely part of Bruce's point, suggesting life is a struggle in which you get out what you put in.

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  Destructoid

  8.5

  Antichamber is a unique and delightful first-person puzzle game that relies a bit too much on the wrong kind of puzzles. The plot is intentionally vague and some players may completely ignore it, but it hardly detracts from the overall experience. Antichamber looks great, is confusing in all the right ways, and may change the way people approach not only videogame puzzles, but real life obstacles as well.

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  Game Informer

  9.0

  That boredom was erased as soon as I entered the multi-roomed gauntlet of puzzles standing between me and Antichamber's enigmatic ending, a final test of the lessons I had learned. Regardless of the lack of story, overcoming those challenges filled me with a greater sense of achievement than the countless "save the world" missions I'm used to taking on in video games. Gamers would be hard pressed to find a more unique, engaging puzzle game.

  Reviewed on PC

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