Playing through Manifold Garden, William Chyr’s M.C. Escher-inspired first-person puzzle game, I couldn’t help but find its endless exteriors and impossible geometry intimidating to explore. The game exists within a destabilized world that wraps around and back in on itself. Towering skyscrapers linger unnaturally overhead and impossible mazes stretch as far as back as your brain will take you before it begins to melt like fondue. When you first start the game, it drops you into a series of enclosed rooms — its way of acclimatizing you to its offbeat puzzle design. Here you are introduced gradually to the core mechanics, including the ability to manipulate gravity, which lets you … Continue reading Manifold Garden is an Escher-inspired Puzzle Game About Infinite Space