Recent reviews by LtHummus

I'm a big fan of Zachtronics games and I thought I'd give this a try as someone who has never really thought about quantum computing. The early puzzles eased me in pretty well, though some of the text explanations have a bit of the "draw the rest of the owl" quality to them. I was able to use some outside resources and the game's own built-in encyclopedia to fill in some gaps. I'm about 5.5 hours in to the game so far and definitely had to replay some sections to solidify the concepts (phase and interference earlier, and now trying to wrap my head around phase kickback), but things have sunk in.

That all said, this game did inspire me to install Qiskit (a quantum computing library for Python) and the concepts I learned in the game mapped pretty cleanly on to Qiskit and that's the best kind of praise you can give for a game like this.

Don't let the time played above this review decieve you, I have 100s of hours in this game before it hit Steam. Though it starts off relatively simple (and has a great tutorial to teach you the basics), you'll quickly find that the game goes very deep with mindgames and the "I knew that you knew that I knew that ...." logic bullet train.

According to the stats, I've played over 3600 games of this and I am still learning new things about this game (the top players have almost 20,000 games played). $25 is well worth it for this game: the game has 10 maps to play on and an _EXTENSIVE_ replay system for analyzing games. The replay system even still loads my replays from 2014 (looking at you PUBG that has constantly broken old replays). You can spectate live games and even practice sniper by sniping against a live game. This "early access" game has more polish than many full-release games I've seen and the developer really, truly cares about feedback.

Some tips for newbies:

1) Don't be discouraged if you lose at the beginning. This game can be hard. Chatting with your opponent and reviewing the replay can teach you a TON.
2) Ask questions in the game lobby! People are generally willing to help out and answer anything you need to know.
3) Once the sniper begins to win around 100% of the time, it's time for you to move on to Intermediate mode which unlocks more missions. There's a little dropdown menu next to the map selector at the top of the Spy setup screen.

Happy sniping (and/or spying)!

Played it a bit; pretty fun.