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Enter the Aperture Science Enrichment Center and experience Bridge Constructor Portal – the unique merging of the classic Portal and Bridge Constructor games.
Portal is fun, bridge-building games can be fun, this game was on sale on GOG, it had mixed reviews but was called the best within this particular franchise of bridge-building games, so I bought it.
Not really, and I ended up refunding its DLC.
The solutions for some levels can be pretty spectacular, with cars jumping around, doing loop-the-loops, teleporting, knocking out turrets, and so on. But, arriving at these solutions is a rather boring process, looking something like this:
The game is shallow, since there are only two available materials, no concept of a "budget", no scoring system to speak of (let alone an online leaderboard), so if a bridge isn't stable it's possible to just add extra crap to it and hope that works. I have some dignity, so I tried to build reasonable bridges and tested with a full column of vehicles, but this was not testing my brain as much as just testing my patience for trial-and-error and finicky physics.
The developers took Portal's setting along with its humor, but they just weren't nearly as good at writing jokes as Valve was, so the charm is ruined. Although I did think it was cute when my coworkers congratulated me on completing sets of levels.
The game has a native Linux port, and i had no issues playing it.
gardenapple - 2024-04-16