Vessel

Vessel
81
Metacritic
89
Steam
81.483
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Price
$2.24
Release date
1 March 2012
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Total
89 (374 votes)

Living liquid machines have overrun a world of unstoppable progress and their inventor must stop the chaos in this game about a man with the power to bring ordinary matter to life!

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Vessel system requirements

  • OS: Windows 7 / Vista / XP
  • Processor: Dual Core 2.0GHz or equivalent processor
  • Memory: 2GB System RAM
  • Hard Disk Space: 1.5GB
  • Video Card: ATi Radeon HD 2400 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or better (Shader Model 3.0 needs to be supported)
  • DirectX®: 9.0c
  • Sound: DirectX compatible

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Darmok
Darmok

Controller support: Great!
Physics: Wonderful!

Gameplay: Couldn't really get into it. Lots of puzzles that put you through all the motions of moving fluros around even though you know what you want to do.

MoebiusJones
MoebiusJones

With its quirky visual style, I really wanted to like this one, but terrible controller lag, in what is just another switch-flipping game means I'll pass.

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Excel

So far so good! Interesting mechanics, clever puzzles, and a cool art style and theme to boot.

Scholar-at-Arms
Scholar-at-Arms

A timing/logic puzzle game with a steampunk flavor. I picked it up in a summer bundle, tried it, found the puzzles too bland to hold my interest.

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Great little game! Definitely recommend it.

Quick pros:
- Captivating world
- Original storyline
- Original gameplay
- Good pacing - puzzles get increasingly difficult, but not too hard, and new items pop up regularly to keep things interesting
- Polished game
- Great soundtrack
- Don't have to have lightning reflexes to get through it (like some platformers)

Quick cons:
- No control adjustments (keymapping, etc.) - I use a different keyboard layout and it was tedious to have to keep switching before playing the game. (But it was worth the trouble. Good game.)
- Game crashed once on me.
- One graphical glitch popped up for me later in the game related to eyes on the creatures.
- Saves regularly put me in the same spot, but without the same amount of resources as when I saved...not fun.

Other info:
- This game is about 10-15 hrs of gameplay - fairly short. (Depending on how long you spend on the puzzles and going back for all the achievements.)

Sarkoth
Sarkoth

Brilliant puzzle platformer with truly new gamedesign and mechanics. Entirely unique, beautiful and engaging.

Gump69
Gump69

Exellent game! One of the Best on STEAM!

peterbourbon
peterbourbon

Very creative, smart and challenging, but never unfair, Puzzle-game. Lots of stuff to discover and constantly getting more and more complex. The soundtrack and atmosphere is brilliant. Worth every cent!

Quack
Quack

The game is a fun at first, with interesting physics puzzles to solve.

But then it gets stupid, with puzzles that are more about reaction time and your ability to deal with lots of things going on all at once, than physics problem solving.

Not recommended due to this bait-and-switch.

fighterfixer
fighterfixer

One of the best puzzler games ever.

Cossa
Cossa

"I Thought This Game Was Cool Before It Won An Award", said everyone that played this in perpetuity.

RumBTv
RumBTv

I loves this game so much i cant stop playing it!!!

Saventi
Saventi

The atmosphere of this game is great. The puzzles are great. The gameplay is great. The upgrade system and progression is great. It's pretty much all around great.

The game is satisfying in length, but I wish it were longer, or that there was a sequel.

Imposter
Imposter

Vessel is a relaxing platform puzzle game. I'm happy to recommend it.

Kryyss
Kryyss

Vessel. Not a ship. No, but it could be. A jug? A container? The developers were clearly trying to do something different with the title but didn't really come up with something very catchy. Not very memorable. A bit of 'could have done with more thought' you may say. But in reality this name is very fitting. Because like the lacklustre title that tries to be clever - the game is just the same way.

What you have here is a good idea ruined by poor execution and very poor playtesting. Let's start with the good points. The notion of having fluidic buddies in a physics based puzzler is actually a very good idea. It's fresh and I can honestly say that some of the puzzles were truely very clever in how they used the mechanics. But at other times, they were really poorly designed and even riddled with bugs. I'm fairly sure that I solved a few puzzles due to glitches with the fluid-buddy AI and not something that the developers intended. Visually the game actually improves as you play further but even this improvement is marginal at best, the opening couple of levels are absolutely dire as you are faced with some very blocky environments which lack any atmosphere and has you platforming through some very generic areas. Things do improve further along and you will start to enjoy yourself by the end of the first 'level' but then things start to go very wrong. The creativity dips, the puzzles become mundane and then it improves again before ending the game with some horrendously vague and buggy puzzles.

The developers even threw in a 'boss' at the end of the game and frankly I was stumped at what I should be doing because there was absolutely no indication of what the goal was. I checked youtube and even then the 'solution' seemed questionable and even for the person playing it didn't work very well. I tried the same thing and nothing happened... then... suddenly it glitches and did what I was meant to do. This wasn't the first bug either, I actually attempted to use the 'drinker' buddies and that totally broke the boss entirely. It wouldn't move.

Moving on from here I figured out the final puzzle without any help, but the level kept breaking as the slime would trigger the gas needed for the experiment even when it wasn't touching the lava and in one instance both the lava and the slime triggers would not depress. Eventually I got everything working, I put the light-sensitive buddies with the red binary explosive in the top. They exploded when the light started to glow and then I fired the blue binary from my storage tank and.... nothing happened. All conditions met, but it bugged out.

Moving on to my last gripe. The audio. I'm not kidding here when I say that it sounds like some of them were recorded on a cheap microphone in someones apartment. The wooden footstep sounds appear to have an echo like they were recorded at home and they are used for everything. Even when you are outside and running along tree branches it sounds like you're running along someones floorboarded kitchen. None of the music the game includes is really very fitting and it all adds to the already ham-fisted attempt at a steam-punk theme.

Needless to say here folks, but this is a really poor, unfinished example of a puzzle game and it is a shame because the underlying mechanics were very clever. It's just that this game was pushed out the door before being ready. It needed someone to make some hard choices about what to cut out and what to remake. Or perhaps get some people who care about the quality of their work to do the audio and visuals.

noxteryn
noxteryn

Surprisingly clever puzzles that start from simple and become incredibly convoluted. Very fun to play!

SimplicityExpounded
SimplicityExpounded

A beautiful game that deserved at least workshop support, if not a sequel.
A satisfying run through the game will be ~5 hours long, if you're good at puzzles.

The physics are solid and the AI never glitches. Literally the only flaw I've found is alt-tabbing when in windowed mode.

PortalFan15
PortalFan15

THIS GAME IS AMAZING!!! i just finished the game and im still wanting more! seriously, if you want a good platformer, with the added bonus of puzzle solving with moving liquids, then this is the game for you! the physics alone create the best gaming experience ive had since portal 2 came out!

10/10!!!!!!!!

Oh yeah, and the fact that you become one with the fluros in game is just awesome!

Jester
Jester

I though a jump and run would be nice once in a while, but this isn't. Strange gameplay, don't really understand why I am doing some tasks, free the water-thingy to help me to pass a door, but why and where is this going? I figured it's not for me.

woodCAT71
woodCAT71

One of the best platformers. Great puzzles, graphics and music.

Pipea
Pipea

No custom controls. unplayable for me. ffs.....

dropdead
dropdead

I like it although it is (for me at least) no game that I can or want to play in one go. A bit patience and reading the journal to get what the different fluros do is key. If I got stuck it was mostly because I didn't really look at the puzzle at hand and did't understand what I had to do.

Watch some videos of the gameplay if you're still unsure. It's a nice game but it's easy to forget how exactly things work if the breaks between playing are too big.

Played with a XBox controller and the controls where fine.

Vorph
Vorph

The game itself is fun and challenging, I really like the look and especially the steamy design. But what really gives me the creeps are the crappy controls. I have played for roughly an hour and I am planning to compete the game - hopefully there will be no passages that consist of timing and precision. Overall a recommendation, but you better not get frustrated if you can't solve a puzzle just because the little guy on the screen is acting like beeing drunk...

BioDigital Jazz
BioDigital Jazz

Excellent gameplay, beautiful soundtrack, cool theme and setting. This is one of my favorite puzzle platformers. 10/10

Doc Veritas
Doc Veritas

Many of the puzzles were counter-intuitive and required too much trial and error and wasted time. Not for me.

zhypen3334
zhypen3334

Nice game, but the ending was a bit anti-climatic. This game should have a sequel.

GrungeMan
GrungeMan

Music by Jon Hopkins, that´s more than enough.

Feral Jesus
Feral Jesus

I wanted to like this little indie action puzzler. The art is both humorous and foreboding, but the action is slow. The levels so far have been a bunch of door switch puzzles that require more tedious repetition than brain power.

[SAMOSEK]
[SAMOSEK]

Got lost so badly so many times on puzzles I did three separate playthroughs before finally beating the game, loved every single one of them.

Doogiem50
Doogiem50

Great puzzle game. Definitely recommeded.

numberone110
numberone110

A very nice and well made game. If you like puzzle platformers with liquid manipulation, than this is a game for you!

Daegoth Vilfariel
Daegoth Vilfariel

Clearly not full controller support as it states. 360 Controlller is not recognised. Not recommended till I figure out how to play the freaking game.

Audish
Audish

I’ve come to consider physics puzzle games as very high risk, high reward propositions. The high reward comes from the emergent gameplay that… emerges from being able to fling blocks around or flood sections of levels or inflict other kinds of chaos on the game. But the risk is that your free-form simulation might not always agree with the solutions players, or even developers, come up with. Video game physics can be incredibly fiddly, especially when fiddling with liquids, so it’s kind of a wonder that Vessel works as well as it does. You’re going to run into plenty of puzzles that resist your solutions but if you can stick with it, it’s one of the deeper and more expansive puzzlers out there.

Your steampunky world is in the throes of a new industrial revolution, brought on by none other than your character Arkwright. He’s created a sythetic life-form called a Fluro, comprised entirely of animated liquid and capable of menial tasks. Fluros are now employed in virtually every factory in the city, but for some reason they’ve started getting a little unruly. After getting locked out of his lab by one, Arkwright sets out on a personal quest to clean up the messes his inventions are causing and hopefully prevent such events from ever transpiring again.

The tutorial portion of the game covers the basic mechanics, including running, jumping, yanking chains, hopping on enormous buttons, cranking enormous cranks, and splashing water everywhere. Most puzzles are going to center around getting a machine to do something, by opening valves or filling tanks or alligning nozzles or other mechanical puttering. You’ll either need the help of Fluros to make it happen, or you’ll need to rid yourself of meddlesome Fluros to keep the machines working right. How you do that will depend on your understanding of the machine’s operation, your tools at hand, and your ability to struggle against the game’s dodgy physics.

In the first hour of the game you’ll gain access to Fluro seeds and a liquid-pumping backpack. Fluro seeds attract water and form a happy, bouncy Fluro when they absorb enough, and these capabilities are used to their utmost right from the start. Your backpack can suck up all kinds of fluids (as you find new tanks to swap in) and spray them in all kinds of configurations with the right nozzles (which you’ll develop and unlock as you find secrets). These two tools together give you a great deal of flexibility in getting liquids and Fluros where they need to go for each puzzle, and allow you to make all kinds of messes as you slop water and lava and whatever else around trying to suss out solutions.

The physics hijinks help keep the otherwise dry (heh) mechanical puzzles from dragging too much, but the weakest parts of the game are always when you have to fight the physics for a solution. Once the tutorial ends you travel to different parts of the city to stop the Fluros-fueled chaos, and your first destination is a foundry. The whole place is an affront to OSHA with lava splashing everywhere and coating main walkways, and you’ll have to find ways across by blocking or cooling the lava with water. But the fluid particle system is a little too wild to provide solid solutions, so you might have a few instances of cooling an entire carpet of lava only to ignite and die when you step on it and sink a pixel too deep into it.

It might sound like I’m nitpicking but the entire game is plagued by plans and solutions that fall apart far too easily. Your Fluros are comprised of water and collapse if they lose too much, and just touching them or failing to provide an over-abundance to form from can make them pop at inopportune times. Blocking liquid flows can be an exercise in frustration as it fills and flows in increasingly aggressive ways. And using any kind of attraction like vacuums or seeds has to be very precise because of how wonky it can all go. These frustrations make the less physics-focused puzzles so much more comfortable and fun to work with, and if it wasn’t such an important gimmick I’d almost wish the fluids were dropped entirely.

I still think Vessel is a good puzzle game, but these concerns should definitely give anyone pause before diving in. This isn’t a relaxing, cerebral puzzler when you’re fighting the liquid physics to enact a perfectly obvious solution. Don’t get me wrong, there are plenty of legitimately challenging and interesting puzzles to face. Almost too many, for Vessel is an expansive game that could easily take you 10+ hours to finish. If you’re okay with investing that kind of time in a puzzler that plays fast and loose with its physics, you’ll have quite an adventure on your hands.

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castavernas
castavernas

This game is almost great. Definitely worth playing but falls just a bit short. Some of the mechanics seem randomly tacked on (eg the gun upgrades) but at its core this is a very unique and beautiful puzzle game. 8/10

fusa
fusa

Recommends using a gamepad, but does not support gamepads.

HaveBlue
HaveBlue

This was the first game I ever bought on steam six years ago. It's a great puzzle platform game. I put about 40 hrs into it originaly and today I finished it again after another 20 hrs. I will probably play it again to get some more achievments that I have left. One thing to note is that I had to play in windowed mode, for some reason I kept getting a bug on one of the early puzzles where all the fluros would disappear. It was weird, it never happened again after that one puzzle, after that I just maximized the window and never had an issue. Also the save format is really jenky but other than that this game is fantastic. I play with an xbox 360 controller.

SkrowFunk
SkrowFunk

Experienced a game-breaking bug in the first real puzzle where you have to summon four fluros to push four different buttons at the same time to open four barriers. As soon as I move to the left towards the barriers, all of my fluros instantly vanish and I can't progress.

you again!
you again!

This game is definitely a bit on the weird side, but overall I enjoyed it and I think it deserves more love from gamers than it has received.

Damag3D
Damag3D

This game is a lot of fun. It is more of a challange than I first thought.

Philadelphus
Philadelphus

Vessel is a really interesting puzzle platforming game about a person with the ability to turn liquids into little autonomous robots. But that barely scratches the surface of the character of this amazing game.

Overview

You play as a scientific genius who's revolutionized his steampunk world by the introduction of fluid robots, or "fluros" for short. However, the fluros have started to show signs of growing beyond their original programming, and they're causing chaos in a variety of industries. You'll spend the game solving a series of puzzles using the impressive fluid simulation engine of the game in order to find out what's going on with the fluros. You'll even fight a boss battle or two along the way.

Fluid simulation (both liquid and gas) is a central feature of the game, and the engine handles it admirably. You start out dealing with simple water, but later you'll get to play around with other more exotic liquids like lava, red and blue goo that explode when mixed together, and mysterious glow goo. These can be used to make a variety of fluros to accomplish tasks and solve puzzles. (A fluro who chases you is a very different prospect when it's composed of lava rather than water!)

Fluros are another central aspect of the game, and they too work very well. You can create as many fluros as you like using your infinite collection of "seeds", which are essentially sets of programmed behaviors that attract any nearby liquid to create a body for themselves to work with. Fluro AI works well, and I've never found myself stuck on a puzzle because they weren't working correctly. Sometimes their programming can create interesting emergent behavior when enough of them are around together, which can be quite amusing.

One other feature of this game that I really like is the interface: all the controls for everything in the world require you to interact with them in the world. This extends to things like buying upgrades for your equipment: instead of browsing a menu and clicking on something, you physically spray enough of the upgrade currency (a liquid called protoplasm that you find around the world) into a tank, then grab and crank a handle to manufacture it, before pulling a level to release it so you can pick it up. Every control in the game is handled like this, and I find it an amazing way to maintain immersion.

I originally bought and played Vessel on Windows, but I'm ecstatic to report that it works perfectly for me on Debian using Steam Play. I think I've had a single crash in some 6–8 hours of playing, but I've also been having hardware issues recently so I can't rule that out as a cause. Other than that the game's been rock-stable.

Issues

A proper review should list the negatives as wel as the positives, and although I love this game to death I do have a few small issues with it. Jumping is occasionally weird—frequently when standing still and trying to jump up, pressing the jump button would only perfom a minimal jump rather than the full-power jump I wanted. Related to this, the button to grab onto items in the world is sometimes a little hit or miss. I don't know if this is related to playing on Linux or not, as it's been so long since I played it on Windows that I don't remember if this also happened then or not. While this was frustrating when it happened, it ultimately didn't prevent me from finishing puzzles or advancing through the world.

Summary

Regardless of the issues, this is an amazing game if you like puzzles involving 2D fluid simulation and atmospheric fictitious steampunk worlds. I've beaten this game multiple times and just keep finding myself coming back, I'm making a Let's Play on it, and it's one two games in my collection that I've completed 100% of the achievements. (Now we just need a Vessel 2 with co-op puzzle solving action!) The controls are sometimes clunky, but the gameplay and atmosphere more tha make up for it in my mind.

smerf123
smerf123

Decent. Not perfect but decent.

LiquidSolidus
LiquidSolidus

A very underrated puzzle game with really neat fluid-based physics puzzles.

Colonol Nutty
Colonol Nutty

The puzzles were very good. I was stumped on a few of them. However, solving them felt empowering, none of them made me feel cheated.

The water physics are fairly good as well.

One gripe would probably be trying to make the fluros and trying to shoot liquids through the grates. Alot of times the fluros try to form themselves even when they don't have enough liquid, resulting in them dissolving immediately.

and my second gripe is when you are trying to get liquids through grates, because most of the time the liquid just sticks to the grate instead of going through it (except when a fluro is moving through it of course).

But even with those minor gripes, I'd still recommend it, especially if you are a lover of water.

Zalanore
Zalanore

Decent game. Breaks if you play in ultra-wide. Reduce your resolution or you can't make it through the tutorial.

ToastToaster
ToastToaster

Whoa.

Saw the plot twist coming, but, Whoa. I grew kinda attached to those silly things. Even the mean ones.

Grave Accent
Grave Accent

Vessel is a good game, Physics based puzzle solving watery fun, good music and fun to mess around with even after you've solved the puzzles.

Gopher8k
Gopher8k

This game is an absolute must. I didn't know at first if it was going to be fun but once I started playing I got instantly hooked. I loved the puzzles that you had to figure out even though some of them were simple.

Antman5132
Antman5132

Great game, with some very different mechanics. It forces you to be creative in order to solve the puzzles, and I'm sure there are multiple ways everything can be done.

Would recommend playing with a controller.

deanie bobeanie
deanie bobeanie

Cool little puzzle game. Makes you think. It was a good game.

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This will not be a typical full review, but I thought it was worth making.

Pros:

    • Cool fluid physics
    • Attractive animation style
    • Just fun to discover what comes next
    • Semi-moddable*

Cons:

    • Some achievements seem arbitrary or not working as they should (looking at you, Internal Rejection)
    • I had to look up how to solve a few puzzles that seemed overchallenging (this may not really be a con)
    • Fairly limited replayability, particularly once achievements are done
    • Two achievements can be missed in the starting area which one can't return to without starting a new game
    • Short to medium-length playtime (con because it isn't longer and limited replayability)

Overall though, very enjoyable. If on sale, definitely snatch it up.

*I mean most of the game files are just basically xml, so it is possible to fiddle around a bit for those who are so inclined.

Lokuzt
Lokuzt

I finally was able to buy and play this game after having downloaded it cracked 6 years ago. I really loved this game and it has been one of the things that I heartfully remember playing from my childhood. The music, art, and mechanics are all the most interesting and fun to look at I've ever found.

Woeste Wilhelmus
Woeste Wilhelmus

Vessel is a fun physics-based puzzle platformer were you use a variety of liquids and 'seeds' to solve increasingly elaborate puzzles by creating different types of liquid creatures (Fluro's) who all behave differently. The game mechanic is unique and I can't think of any other game that is quite like it, but I guess that if you like The Swapper you should give this game a try as well. The game is beautifully done and the machines and other contraptions have an outstanding level of detail, giving the game a steampunk feel. Part of the difficulty comes from the sometimes very elaborate and intricately detailed level design which can make it a bit of a challenge to see what the important parts of the level are that you can interact with. The difficulty steadily increases towards the end as more and more colors and flavors become available. Tip: you actually have to read the diary that you unlock page by page to fully understand what is going on.
Vessel was released in 2012 and unfortunately there is still no sequel.

evildwells
evildwells

Highly recommended. A real gem of a physics puzzler, and one that has not dated badly

biot8
biot8

Pretty good side scrolling puzzle platformer. The physics aren't water tight, but they are pretty good.

Hotcat
Hotcat

Great game. I like simple game play and complex of task to finish it.

Wyatt the Mad Bowmen
Wyatt the Mad Bowmen

Beautiful art style, good puzzles, shit story, great price, and fun mechanics. I strongly recommend, doubly so if you got some drugs in you, but not to mutch.

Rataphract
Rataphract

Finicky at times, but, after playing it through for a second time, years and years after first doing so? Yeah. This is good.

Virtual333
Virtual333

Tackle this puzzle with a lateral mind.

Zarokima
Zarokima

The possibilities for fluid-based puzzles are thoroughly explored in this charming game.

SkullCat
SkullCat

Vessel may have many glitches by 2020 standards, or it may not be as long as most want, but I can’t say I’ve ever seen a game that has npcs completely made of simulated fluid like vessel has. The fluid/ai mix proved to be a very visually appealing and fun mechanic and I wish more games did this.

PDV
PDV

Puzzles are OK. Would be better as an abstract game with all theme removed, though; all the setting does is grind your face into the dirt about the fluos being puppies you're continuously kicking. At best you can ignore it and enjoy the puzzles; if you can't, you'll marinate in unpleasant psychological miasma.

Libertad
Libertad

This is an okay puzzle game, but you do not expect anything more.

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It's okay. Puzzle meme with the added bonus of having fluid components.

The graphics are very dated but serviceable.

orbitalmindcontrol
orbitalmindcontrol

Something quite different from other puzzle platformers, with an almost Lemmings-like aspect to it as you use the tools to hand to influence the creatures in the level to throw switches for you. It's ingenious and challenging, plus pleasurable to play: a real audio-visual treat.

Citg
Citg

A fantastic use of water mechanics that, while sometimes glitchy, is a blast to figure out.

urth1
urth1

Reminds me of pikmin. I love pikmin

Squid
Squid

i playd wen i wus ubout fiv yers eld it isss vairy gud

xrup972
xrup972

Awesome game with an awesome story, just a bit short, could use a DLC
9/10

RevengeFromMars
RevengeFromMars

A 2D puzzle platformer that looked like it would be fun, but wasn't in reality. Instead it became infuriating. Nice graphics, early puzzles were fun, then the factory levels hit. You get to simultaneously struggle with solving complex puzzles where sometimes you have no idea what you're supposed to be doing, so you must try random stuff to see what happens, while fighting random physics, so sometimes stuff works, sometimes it doesn't, while trying not to be burned alive by lava. After having to look up the solutions to three consecutive sections, and still having to struggle for 20 minutes after doing that to get the third one solved due to finicky controls and physics, I gave up and uninstalled.

If you like super-hard puzzle platformers with finicky controls, maybe you'll like this. Otherwise, you may want to avoid this for your own sanity.

Henry Read
Henry Read

A really good puzzle game although it is not well known.

buckman333
buckman333

Cool and unique sidescroll platformer. If you like these types of indie games, this is the game for you.

Grunthex
Grunthex

A very unique little game, not sure of anything else that manipulates fluid quite the way this does. Definitely play with a controller if you can, the controls are a bit finicky (though fully playable) with mouse/keyboard.

FunnyJay
FunnyJay

An absolute hidden gem!
A fantastic puzzle-platformer where you really get a sense of accomplishment when you figure out the puzzles.

I cannot recommend this game enough!

corbo
corbo

A must if you are into puzzle-platformers. Excellent design, mechanics, and implementation.

A must if you are into steampunk. The machines are among the best I've ever seen, stylish, amusingly contrived, verily steam-powered, activated by acrobatic maneuvers, and of course totally unsafe.

I rate Vessel up there with the best in the genre, like Rochard or Life Goes On, despite a flaw of which the others are exempt: The finale of Vessel is, contrary to anything prior, a painful exercise in trial-and-error with a long, tedious, complex wind-up that is fully reset every time the thing randomly fails.

Everything before those last minutes is highly entertaining, full of funny fluid creatures that you create and/or guide through funny contraptions with your funny tools.
Everything is great to look at and great to interact with.

CharlyPlayman
CharlyPlayman

Great 2D puzzle game.
PROS: fluid physics + varied puzzles + animations + music + background graphics + the way you progress
CONS: jumping is not very real

IceCheif
IceCheif

Amazing gamr - played years ago and played again now. They should have definitely included more levels and taken this further. Even a second would have been great.

Mineswee
Mineswee

It had some hard puzzles

about the only things i didn't like is sometimes the creatures would try and form without enough liquid so after forming they would explode shooting water out everywhere and you would then need to do that bit of puzzle all over again so it wasn't a matter of figuring it out it was getting the stupid a.i. to do it

another thing is that sometimes the pumps to refill are in bad locations and sometimes your guy falls off of the ladders

other than that I liked the game a lot though

IAAMKROGAN
IAAMKROGAN

Отличный паззл, приятная музыка, занятный геймплей =)

♛ EmuLegs
♛ EmuLegs

Good Game, cool fluid puzzles ^_^

blackserpent666
blackserpent666

I could never get into this game. Don't know why. I tried twice & I just find it annoying and not fun.

A3 EZ 47
A3 EZ 47

One of my favorite puzzler games similar to that of portal

You play as a inventor of fluros. A cheaper form of automated construct made from water. In theory being that the earth is covered in water it be the next best thing in the industrial revolution. Of course it wouldn't be much of a story if things worked as planned. Turns out that your "water robot" has somehow caused a number of issues from the orchard to the mines so in turn you find out that your creations have changed due to the environment. Low light, High light, lava. or may turn explosive.

May not been a long game but certainly one of the more memorable ones

RW-332
RW-332

Fairly simple puzzle game with interesting mechanics and cool ending.

Trent W. Buck
Trent W. Buck

Fantastic hidden gem. The good puzzle feels of Portal.

Possum
Possum

A great puzzle game both in terms of unique mechanics and puzzle ingenuity. The fluid aspect makes the game very unusual and versatile, and is the core of most of the puzzles rather than just a tacked-on gimmick. There's also a collectable aspect, but isn't obscure or extremely difficult to complete.
Definitely a great game for the price, even by now with its age.

Broland
Broland

Amazing game!
Really clever puzzles that you can solve in multiple ways.
Didn't like the last puzzle though and there are some glitches here and there, but overall experience is really good.

JiveCracker
JiveCracker

awesome game amazing soundtrack

soyespo
soyespo

I bought this game about 6 years ago. I tried playing it back then and remember feeling very confused. I decided to give it another try all these years later and it was fun. It's a beautiful game both visually and the soundtrack. The puzzles were usually challenging but I could figure them out. But as the game progresses they got harder and harder and I really got stumped on a few of them. They were just way to complex for me to even know where to start.I wish they had some time of hint system after you're stuck on a puzzle for a while or that you could choose. All in all it was a very fun experience and definitely worth it. It took me 30 hours but I think most people will get through in 10. I like how there are more than one way to solve a puzzle. So you can be creative. You are rewarded for curiosity. This is one of those games that more people should know about. Oh the only thing I wish were optimized was the ladder climbing. When you climb ladders it's easy to fall off and when you want or need to jump off it's not so easy. There is one room with many ladders side by side and I wish I had known that when you move off the ladder you need to jump immediately no matter what the distance to the next ladder is. You'll know what that means when you get there.

Infinity1967
Infinity1967

Enjoyable & rewarding platform puzzler with real physics you need to monitor in the environment & the several fluids you need to handle.

The Good:
- Good graphics & fitting music.
- Physics
- Nice setting & atmosphere.
- Not to stressful nor frustrating for you (or your rig).
- Mild learning curve.

The Bad:
- Health Warning: Thinking can sometimes cause headaches to some :)
- Bit short

Overall very recommended.
Score: 8/10

Regault
Regault

Played this game long ago, leaving a review because I realized it has