Antichamber review: mobius trip

By Griffin McElroy on Jan 31, 2013 01.31.13

Though its methods and puzzles are often quite obscure, Antichamber's end goal could not be more clear: You need to move forward. Though its maze-like, often cyclical corridors are difficult to keep straight, your progress is noted on a map accessible through the game's central hub — the titular antichamber, a room, map and menu you access at any time with one stroke of the Escape key. That map, which lets you warp between rooms at will, is absolutely essential, because the world of Antichamber is a complete mindfuck. Sure, for the most part, individual puzzles have been neatly organized into rooms — rooms that are reset when you back out to the Antichamber, ensuring your mistakes are punishing, but not permanent. But the entrances and exits of those rooms are...