7th sector

Носков Сергей (Noskov Sergey) is a Russian developer who created the video game 7th Sector alone. His first released game was 35MM.

Story:

As a small energy ball, we try to explore the gloomy cyberpunk world, solve puzzles and collect some data.

Gameplay:

7th Sector is an atmospheric sidescrolling platformer with great optics, tricky puzzles and cyberpunk/dystopia elements. The game starts as a shadow figure in a TV from which, we try to escape. After we morth into a little spark. This spark full of energy must travel along a series of wires and solve tricky puzzles. The game has a total of four different ends, which you have to find out without any help, since there is no tutorial. if you think to use a walkthrough, forget about it, because many of these puzzles change with each playthrough.

Controls:

The controls work great in moving from left to right, but when a player needs to move an object in three dimensions, the controls can make those efforts a bit frustrating.

Sound and Graphic:

This Game offers no dialogues but music and sound effects that helps the game getting a really great atmosphere. The graphics are gorgeous and the smaller effects ar done really great. The game environment takes place in a cyberpunk city of the future.

Difficulty:

The puzzles are sometimes light and sometimes quite heavy, you have finally solved them, it feels a bit empty, because there is no help and you have to remember a lot, it can make quite an effort and is therefore not suitable for every player.