Manifold Garden

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Manifold Garden is a game about change. It will test you and reward you in equal measure, and the memorable journey it takes you on is well worth the price of admission.

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Manifold Garden is a game about change. It will test you and reward you in equal measure, and the memorable journey it takes you on is well worth the price of admission.

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Critic Reviews for Manifold Garden

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57% of scored reviews fell within the range of 80 to 86 / 100

Hope Corrigan (GameSpot)

9/10

“Manifold Garden invites you to bend your mind to the whim of infinity and learn to truly see things from all angles.”

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Nicole Carpenter (Polygon)

Recommended

“After seven years in development, Manifold Garden is a surreal masterpiece”

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Rachel Watts (PC Gamer)

85/100

“A serene gravity flipping puzzler with impossible structures to wrap your head around.”

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33bits	Ismael Mercado Sánchez	85 / 100	09-23-2020	Manifold Garden is excellent visual poetry with different perspectives. It will make us think deeply at certain times and even get confused. It is short but it is compensated by its elaborate development and precious audiovisual section.	Read review
COGconnected	Jaz Sagoo	80 / 100	08-30-2020	Despite the relatively short playtime and little replay value, Manifold Garden is worth exploring. Just be prepared for an existential trip into the world of William Chyr.	Read review
Darkstation	Andrew Thornton	4 / 5 stars	11-14-2019	There are plenty of titles that share some common DNA with Manifold Garden but when it really gets into the zone, there's nothing else on the market like it. It brought out feelings in me I've never felt from a video game. I demanded others I know experience it in a way I haven't since the first time I tried VR. At its best, I forgot I was playing a video game, surrendering completely to the audio and visual experience while taking on challenging but not overwhelming puzzles.	Read review
Destructoid	Jordan Devore	8.5 / 10	10-22-2019	Manifold Garden has a lot going for it, but above all else, it's simply pleasant – to look at, to listen to, and to play. It's the kind of game you can revisit every couple of years and be confident it'll hold up.	Read review
Eurogamer	Christian Donlan	Recommended	10-30-2019	Mesmerising and thrilling, this is a puzzle game for the ages.	Read review
FingerGuns	Sean Davies	9 / 10	08-29-2020	Manifold Garden is the best first person puzzle game since Portal 2. Unique spatial mechanics, a world that brings to life M.C. Escher’s work, a winsome art style and masterfully designed puzzles make this one of the easiest recommendations of 2020 so far.	Read review
GameGrin	Benedict Daniels	10 / 10	10-24-2019	I have never encountered a more beautiful, entrancing and sublime gaming experience	Read review
GameMAG	Unknown	8 / 10	01-13-2020	From world to world you go deeper and deeper, trembling with fear of a new complex task that seems impassable. Perhaps this is the most important thing you need to know about Manifold Garden, apart from the addictive desire to continue fighting puzzles and a slight dizziness.	Read review
GameSpot	Hope Corrigan	9 / 10	10-29-2019	Manifold Garden invites you to bend your mind to the whim of infinity and learn to truly see things from all angles.	Read review
God is a Geek	Chris Hyde	8.5 / 10	08-18-2020	Manifold Garden is a gorgeous puzzler that is something very different. It will test you and reward you in equal measure for a very unique experience.	Read review
Hardcore Gamer	James Cunningham	4 / 5 stars	11-05-2019	Manifold Garden is an incredibly stylish first-person puzzler, like walking through the architectural drawings of a pandimensional designer.	Read review
IGN Italy	Damaso Scibetta	8.6 / 10	10-23-2019	Manifold Garden its a game about changing: from the changing-gravity mechanic to the high variety of gameplay, the game design defines an interesting first person puzzle game with a lot of exploration in Escher-style. A good game that sometimes just suffers a bit of emptiness due to the lack of narrative aims, but a must-have for all puzzle lovers.	Read review
IGN Spain	Unknown	8 / 10	10-31-2019	Manifold Garden is a nice and pleasant title, especially to play it off and on and avoid saturation.	Read review
New Game Network	Dylan Blereau	80 / 100	09-02-2020	Manifold Garden's unique aesthetic and creative puzzles result in a memorable journey that is well worth the price of admission.	Read review
Nintendo Life	Stuart Gipp	6 / 10	09-05-2020	Manifold Garden is a lovely game, but sometimes the "game" bit gets a little in the way.	Read review
NintendoWorldReport	John Rogers	8.5 / 10	08-25-2020	And it takes an artist's touch to so masterfully combine gameplay, art direction, architecture, logic puzzles, spacial subversion and audio-visual elements into such a coherent package. I've a feeling Chyr's next project might manifest as an art installation rather than a game. If so, I'll be holding my breath for a fall as I step tentatively through the doorway.	Read review
PC Gamer	Rachel Watts	85 / 100	10-28-2019	A serene gravity flipping puzzler with impossible structures to wrap your head around.	Read review
Polygon	Nicole Carpenter	Recommended	10-25-2019	After seven years in development, Manifold Garden is a surreal masterpiece	Read review
PSX Brasil	Paulo Roberto Montanaro	90 / 100	09-03-2020	Manifold Garden is probably one of the best and most daring puzzle games of the past two decades. Referring to the greatest classics of the genre, it manages to present an absolutely simple concept both in terms of aesthetics and gameplay, with the right rhythm in beautiful and ingenious challenges.	Read review
Push Square	Liam Croft	7 / 10	08-18-2020	The star of the Manifold Garden show is far and away its presentation, and witnessing it in motion is worth the asking price alone. It's just a shame the puzzles themselves can't quite hit those same levels of spectacularity.	Read review
Rock, Paper, Shotgun	Alice Bell	Recommended	11-05-2019	But most of all, Manifold Garden makes me break out in a cold sweat. I cannot help but imagine myself, trapped in an endless kaleidoscope.	Read review
Saving Content	Evan Rowe	5 / 5 stars	12-20-2019	Manifold Garden delivers a unique, exciting world to explore with some mind-bending environments that tightly integrate with its puzzles and play systems. While it doesn’t reinvent the genre, it experiments in some exciting and playful ways that make it a memorable experience you’ll hang onto long after you’ve finished.	Read review
Use a Potion	Unknown	9 / 10	08-21-2020	Manifold Garden is a really special game, with its beautifully hypnotic world and enjoyable puzzle design making for a truly unique experience. Admittedly, some of the puzzles themselves can be pretty simple in design and there aren’t too many intricate mechanics involved, but you won’t mind too much given how mind-blowing the game world is to explore.	Read review
VGChartz	Lee Mehr	8 / 10	11-25-2019	William Chyr’s passion project is among my favorite first-person puzzlers for its ambitious scope, entrancing visuals, and brain-breaking conundrums.	Read review

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Manifold Garden is a game that reimagines physics and space. Explore a world of beautiful Escher-esque architecture where the laws of physics are different. Geometry repeats infinitely in every direction and falling down leads you back to where you started. Manipulate gravity to change your perspective and see the world in new ways. Master the rules of the universe and restore a barren world with vegetation and life.

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