Great for Portal fans
Mentioned in ~3 in 5 positive reviews
“Obviously heavily inspired by Portal but instead w/ time being the main driver.”
Steam review · 16.2 h played ↗
The Entropy Centre
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Very Positive · 89%Very Positive · 89%Stubby Games2022Puzzle Platformer · Puzzle · Adventure
$19.99
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 1 h ago
The verdict
A Portal-inspired puzzler with a clever time-rewind mechanic, nice visuals and a decent story. Skip it if fiddly jump pads, repetitive puzzles or chatty dialogue annoy you.
Great for
Portal fans who want a story-driven, fairly easy puzzle game with a fresh time-rewind gimmick
Main risk
Puzzles feel repetitive and tedious, and a missed jump forces you to redo the whole setup
What players love
Engaging story and lore
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews
“The Entropy Centre has a story, a very interesting one, that makes you go through series of different emotions.”
Steam review · 19.4 h played ↗
Clever time-rewind mechanic
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Rewinding and progressing objects in physical space and learning to think in reverse has been done before, but not as well or consistently as this.”
Steam review · 10.7 h played ↗
Beautiful visuals and atmosphere
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“The research facility is beautiful!”
Steam review · 10.6 h played ↗
Likable companion and charming dialogue
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 positive reviews
“The dialogue between the player character (Aria) and the gun (Astra) I found to be actually funny”
Steam review · 7.2 h played ↗
Good performance and optimization
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 positive reviews
“Runs at 60-80 FPS.”
Steam review · 3.4 h played ↗
What players complain about
Repetitive, tedious puzzles
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“extremely repetitive game, what feels like solving the same puzzle for 7 hours.”
Steam review · 7 h played ↗
Too much of a Portal knockoff
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“it is far too similar to portal 2 in just about every aspect”
Steam review · 11.7 h played ↗
Fiddly jump pads force full redos
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The jump boxes are SO difficult to get right that you end up repeating the play over and over again.”
Steam review · 13.9 h played ↗
Puzzles too easy
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“Sooner or later, you start feeling like you’re solving preschool puzzles.”
Steam review · 4.5 h played ↗
Cringey, overly chatty dialogue
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Truly some of the worst, most cringe-inducing dialogue I have ever experienced.”
Steam review · 2.5 h played ↗
Annoying robot action sequences
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“The 'combat' sections against robots — in a game with movement clearly not designed for that — are unfair and frustrating”
Steam review · 9.4 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: PlayableController support12 GB
Minimum
OSWindows 10
ProcessorIntel Core i5-2300 | AMD FX-4350
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 560 | AMD Radeon HD 6870
Storage12 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 10
ProcessorIntel Core i5-7500 | AMD Ryzen 5 1600
Memory8 GB RAM
GraphicsNVIDIA GTX 1070 | AMD Radeon RX 590
Storage12 GB available space
OSWindows 10
ProcessorIntel Core i5-2300 | AMD FX-4350
Memory4 GB RAM
GraphicsNvidia GeForce GTX 560 | AMD Radeon HD 6870
Storage12 GB available space
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