A Frankenstein's monster of a platform game, Schrodinger's Cat and the Lost Quark is very much alive with colour and personality, but feels rather soulless in the gameplay department


Schrödinger's Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark
2014 Team1763Worthwhile
Playtime
ShortIt typically takes about 8 hours to finish the game.
Playable on
Available on
- $9.99
- $9.99
Game modes
Details
- Launch
- September 23, 2014
- Developer
- Italic Pig
- Publisher
- Team17
- Themes
Overview
Schrödinger’s Cat is a fun, fanatic, wacky and colourful puzzle laden platform game, set in a unique and quirky quantum physics world. Combine and create useful bits of temporary matter such as, bridges, ladders and grenades to combat and subdue the kleptomaniacal gluons and cantankerous bosons now running amok to help Schrodinger’s Cat round up all the escapees from the particles zoo.
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Reception
- Metacritic61from 22 reviews
- OpenCritic65from 27 reviews
Schrodinger's Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark seems like the perfect game for your kid to play. It's a cute puzzle-platformer that can spark a scientific interest. Your kid could probably also look past the fact that it's also a puzzle-platformer ripe with tacky one-liners, uninspired level design, and repetitive game play, all of which combine...
Schrödinger's Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark's heart is certainly in the right place; for the most part it offers a weird and solid platforming experience in an original format only to become bogged down by bland level design and often unnecessarily complex gameplay mechanics. It's an admirable premise that certainly aims to offer insight and...
Schrodinger's Cat is a bit of a bomb. Lively and exuberant about quantum theories as it can be, there is a lack of sustained momentum.
The platforming elements are completely tied into its puzzle system, so to appreciate the game, you'll have to really love this one element of the game's mechanics.



















