Waking up in an odd facility, protagonist Aria Adams finds herself a Handheld Entropy Gadget (HED): a gun-like entity which may bend time, and homes a sassy digital companion named Astra. If that sounds vaguely acquainted, then you must already know what to anticipate. It’s laborious to disregard the affect of Portal in The Entropy Centre, however fortunately, this isn’t only a copy and paste of an previous traditional.
As Aria proceeds via the Entropy Centre, she finds she’s the one particular person there. The remainder of the centre appears to be deserted, with partitions crumbling and every thing in a state of disrepair. She finds computer systems with emails which allude to a time when the ability was inhabited.
Progressing via the ability, a thriller is unravelled. What is that this facility for? The place is everybody? And why are there so many puzzles? Solutions start to kind.
The puzzles themselves are difficult, however to not the purpose of irritating. With the assistance of the HED, Aria can wind again time and reverse the paths of sure objects. This results in a whole lot of lateral fascinated with the place you want sure objects to be — not solely at one time limit however in others — to make sure they’ll get to the place they have to be on the proper occasions.
Simply when it looks like puzzles are getting stale, The Entropy Centre introduces a brand new ingredient. Whether or not that’s within the early levels and upgrading the HED to have extra options, or via completely different blocks you need to use within the puzzles. There are blocks you’ll be able to leap on to succeed in greater spots and others which catapult you to new areas. As such, every thing is consistently up to date and feels contemporary.
Visually, The Entropy Centre is usually a bit hit-and-miss. Quite a bit has clearly been put into the visible facet, but it surely does typically really feel like property are reused again and again. As such, the within of the ability can typically really feel a bit stale and samey. The identical can’t be stated for the surface of the ability, although, the place outer house seems to be unimaginable and nearly picture-perfect.