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The Antichamber debate

What the community thinks of Antichamber, ordered by reader support. Agreeing, translating and reporting a message need no account.

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CoopKnight4

I still think about the map screen more than most puzzle games I've finished twice over. It never explains itself and somehow that's the whole point. Doesn't need flashy visuals to make rooms feel wrong in a good way, and that's rare enough to matter for its ranking.

SilviaAce

Portal 2 tiene una narrativa que te guía, este juego te suelta sin red, no sé si eso lo hace mejor o solo distinto.

Iron_Mitchell

Replying to SilviaAce

Guiding versus letting go isn't a ranking argument though, plenty of guided games rank higher and deserve to
EmileWarden

People keep calling it a puzzle masterpiece. It's a corridor with a mood board taped to the walls. The puzzles themselves are thin once you strip away the disorientation trick.
VinylAce25

its concpet is great but the framerate hitches in some of the bigger open rooms really break the immersion for me
GhostKnight2

not the first walking sim comparison it'll get, but it plays nothing like Portal 2 once you're actually inside it.

ziemann_eudora

Played it right after a breakup and the disorientation matched my mood more than any comparison to Portal 2 ever could.
ArcadeWarden2

played through it again during a slow week off work and forgot how uneasy the early rooms still make me, tbh the color coded gun mechanic near the end drags a bit but the disorientation stuff never stopped working on me.
CoopRider

Fez plays tricks with perspective too but Antichamber does it with pure space itself, no gimmick layer on top. Where Fez rewards you for cracking a code, this one rewards you for accepting you can't always predict the rules. Different kind of satisfaction honestly.

Puente51

A mí también me costó soltar la lógica normal, tardé semanas en dejar de intentar resolverlo como un puzzle tradicional.
ArcadeOwl

Went back to it last year expecting it to feel like a relic and it mostly didn't. The core trick of disorientation still lands even knowing what's coming. Some puzzle logic feels dated compared to newer stuff but the spatial ideas hold up fine.
ArcadeLegend3

It's a strange one to rank because half the fun is not knowing what's happening, and reviews kind of ruin that for you. I think it deserves a solid spot but I get why voters split on it, it's not for everyone and that's fine.

RoguePhoenix

Si la mitad se pierde y la otra mitad tramposea, ¿en qué se basa exactamente ese puesto tan alto?

NovaHunter

"original" gets thrown around a lot here, Fez was doing perspective tricks around the same time and gets half the credit for it.
Iron_Shields

Isn't the whole point that it refuses to hold your hand while still being fair if you actually pay attention to the map screen mechanic? I keep seeing people call it a gimmick but I think that's exactly what makes it worth revisiting years later, gimmicks don't usually reward a second playthrough
Pagac35

It gets credit for originality every time but I think people undersell how thin the back half feels. The first hour is genuinely unlike anything else. After that the ideas repeat with less impact each time.

Katelyn_1985

The gun mechanic near the end runs at a steady clip even in the busiest rooms, that part held up fine for me.
Save_Waters

386th feels low for a game this original, honestly.

Rudolph_2

386th just means voters split hard on it, that's not the same as underrated, plenty of niche games sit there for good reasons.

Flavio_5

Replying to juanita56

Same experience with the gun section, ran smooth for me too, no hitching at all in that stretch.

Ghost_Archuleta

Comparado con Fez, que también juega con la percepción, este va más lejos con la lógica espacial, aunque Fez tiene un mundo que se siente más vivo y habitable.

Ghost_Botsford

Solid but niche, that's fair.

Johnnie_22

Replying to Ghost_Botsford

Niche is doing a lot of work there, it's a corridor sold as a labyrinth

PixelPilot1995

Played it during a rough autumn, loved it, though some rooms dragged on too long.

juanita56

Yeah, 386th undersells it. Nothing else on this site tries to break spatial logic quite this directly.

EmeliaWarden

I felt exactly this the first time the map screen stopped making sense to me, and honestly that confusion is the whole appeal.

Silent_Bazin

Je l'ai fini seul un dimanche pluvieux et j'étais plutôt content d'en sortir, pourquoi tu le trouves si sous-classé au juste ?
ComboLegend

Je l'ai lâché deux fois avant de comprendre qu'il fallait juste arrêter de réfléchir.
Océane_1987

Et niveau confort manette, ça reste étonnamment fluide même dans les salles impossibles.

CritAce80

Fair point on framerate, though I'd argue it matters less here since the whole game is built around disorientation anyway. A stutter almost blends into the confusion instead of breaking it.

Nova_Corwin

Same here, the framerate held up fine on my end even in the rooms that look like they shouldn't render properly.
FrameLegend2010

Para mí compite directamente con Portal 2 en ingenio, aunque no tenga la misma pulida narrativa. Lo que hace con el espacio y la percepción es único, nadie más se ha atrevido a intentarlo así. Por eso creo que merece estar bien arriba, aunque no tenga el mismo pulido de producción.

GlitchBard3

Agreed, the space design alone earns it more respect than it gets.
ComboWarden

Je le trouve surestimé, l'idée est bonne mais elle s'épuise vite