Waking up in an odd facility, protagonist Aria Adams finds herself a Handheld Entropy Device (HED): a gun-like entity which may bend time, and homes a sassy digital companion named Astra. If that sounds vaguely acquainted, then you need to 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to disregard the affect of Portal in The Entropy Centre, however fortunately, this isn’t only a copy and paste of an outdated basic.

As Aria proceeds by way of 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 power was inhabited.

Progressing by way of the power, a thriller is unravelled. What is that this facility for? Where is everybody? And why are there so many puzzles? Answers 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 number of lateral fascinated by the place you want sure objects to be — not solely at one cut-off date however in others — to make sure they’ll get to the place they should be on the proper instances.

Just when it appears like puzzles are getting stale, The Entropy Centre introduces a brand new aspect. Whether that’s within the early phases and upgrading the HED to have extra options, or by way of totally different blocks you should utilize within the puzzles. There are blocks you’ll be able to leap on to achieve greater spots and others which catapult you to new areas. As such, every thing is continually up to date and feels contemporary.

Visually, The Entropy Centre generally is a bit hit-and-miss. Rather a lot has clearly been put into the visible side, but it surely does usually really feel like belongings are reused again and again. As such, the within of the power can usually really feel a bit stale and samey. The identical can’t be mentioned for the skin of the power, although, the place outer house seems unimaginable and nearly picture-perfect.