Monokrome is a first person physics puzzle adventure, where through the manipulation of coloured energy and the sponge-like metal called 'Monokrome', you can create interesting and crazy effects. See description for system requirements. Chase a murderous drone along a path of slain scientists! Don't let its traps slow you down.
If you played Portal, you will be immediately at home in this game. Pressure plates that need to be pressed to activate some door or switch on/off some force field, individual puzzles that need to be solved with the given materials, some voice of unknown origin giving you tips and information and more similiarities are obvious.
The main difference is that instead of shooting portals, you manipulate a new material "Monokrome" with "NRG" of three varieties (violet, blue and yellow). Monokrome seems to exist mostly in the form of transportable cubes and the NRG can be found in some containers lying around.
All of this is explained and trained in the tutorial, though some exact interactions you have to find out during the game. The game takes place at some technical facility and you have to follow a linear path through it. Puzzles are sperated most often not by closing doors, but by barriers that forbid Monokrome or NRG to travel through. That way you don't need to wander if you should have brought some other NRG with you from the last puzzle or an additional Monokrome cube.
These barriers also play a role during the puzzles, where you may need to find creative ways to bring NRG to Monokrome when the obvious paths are blocked.
The puzzles are interesting and as in any good puzzle game, afterwards they often seem obvious. My one and only critizism is the lack of a save feature. Any game with limited resources (inside a puzzle) has the potential problem of the player wasting, destroying or otherwise making some resources no longer available to him. In a 3D physics game where you throw things around, this is especially true. The game tries very well to make this impossible, but twice I threw a cube out of my reach and once I "lost" NRG in a place where I could no longer get it from. If there was a save (or better auto save between puzzles) that would not be a problem. Now I'd have to restart the whole level again.
This game is a great adventure full of unique puzzles and unique ideas. If you've played and enjoyed Portal, you'll feel right at home with this. One of the better and more original indie games I've played so far.
Just like in Portal, you play as a test subject in a lab when something goes horribly wrong, but instead of portals, you control the power of Monokrome, which are various types of energies that can be applied to blocks and other parts of the environment to help you navigate through the map.
The only thing keeping me from rating this game an 8 or 9 is the fact that it's terribly short. The first time I played through it it took me about a half hour, after that, I can run through the entire game in about 5-10 minutes. I wouldn't be so disappointed with the length had this been an alpha or beta version, however because it is listed as the "full release" I was expecting a lot more game play.
-Unique ideas
-Unique art style
-Too short
I found the game incredibly enjoyable and I'm looking very much forward to level two. I only experienced one bug, as all others have already been fixed thanks to the wonderful community, however it's still a bug. It was half way down the corridor leading out of the room with the four out-of-order elevators - I was walking along and fell out of the world.
Other than this one bug (that, might I add, does not completely ruin the game as you can simply just replay the level and avoid the area with the tear) the game was incredibly well made and never once dull or boring. I can say that once more levels have been added and all the remaining bugs have been ironed out, I would genuinely consider Monokrome on a par with such titles as Half-Life or Portal.
One final sweetener - the game is completely free!
Very original. I like it.
Great game!
good game but game is short
Great game! Enjoyed the gameplay a lot however I wish that it was longer by a couple levels just becasue the conscept is great.
i like the portal 2 style
Good game lots of fun but puzzles sometime glitch making them un-winnable. The music also drowns out the vocals most of the time.
The game is really good and has great replay value to it. Keep up the good work guys!