April 2020 • Macworld 55- Manifold Garden
Designed by artist William Chyr, Manifold Garden is
mainly a game about dropping boxes onto switches
in order to open doors – with the twist that you can
only pick up the boxes while they’re on the floor.
It gets much, much crazier. If you flip while on a
staircase, you might find yourself sliding off the
building’s ‘wall’ and dropping into infinity – until,
that is, you land on an identical structure far below.
It’s a smart way of making players regard the world
differently in order to look for solutions, although I
never fully lost the resulting sense of vertigo while
playing. I’d say that’s to Manifold Garden’s credit.