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Smart, subtle and sinister, Cradle is a wonderful work of science fiction that doesn’t quite fit inside the space Flying Cafe have designed for it.
80
One of the best stories among indie games of recent years. [10/2015, p.60]
60
Cradle successfully combines a strange world with mysterious story and beautiful design. But the actual game principles are, unfortunately, lagging behind.
1
don't want and don't have time to write here. to be short - I'm very disappointed 1/10
9
An unabashed masterpiece, albeit unpolished, being indie. The art direction is world-class beautiful and fresh. The few locations, characters and set pieces are very carefully designed for maximum quality. The music is fantastic. The writing and narrative are flawlessly presented, the player can discover it at his own rate and is rewarded for interacting with the game as much as possible, which is wonderful, but will unfortunately not be as appreciated by players who do not enjoy reading and pondering. The gameplay is actually well-designed and stimulating. I don't mind the cube puzzles as well, but they change in tone too much from the rest of the game even though they fit well narratively. It's the only oversight to me. In my opinion the game needs to be played and thought of for a while for it to be complete. You can look for someone else's conclusions about it as well, if too impatient. Essentially almost every piece of information in it is part of the narrative and important. Congratulations to the developers for releasing something so deep, beautiful and meaningful. Thanks for the exhilarating experience. All i wish is that you made more, and others developed games with such dedication for interactive art and gameplay. It's sorely needed.
7
This game look amazing but the developers decided to **** on it The story is awesome, unique, the graphics are good, the artwork is amazing then there is game play, absolutely disgusting, it makes you frustrated and give you headache, with that disgusting controls they decided to make the hardest nastiest puzzles of all time, there is only 4 puzzles in the game (thank god) and you can skip them after you lose (if you manage to lose which is harder than winning the puzzle), they are all the same puzzles over and over again, and its not only a bad puzzle, it's the worst puzzle i have ever played in my entire life, and i played lots of puzzle games overall: Story: 9/10 Game play: 1/10 Graphics: 7/10 Artwork: 9/10 never gonna play this game ever again because of the disgusting controls
Cradle
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Jul 24, 2015
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Mixed or Average
65
User score
Generally Favorable
7.6
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Sep 18, 2015
80
Uneven pacing and a handful of poor design decisions can't bring down Cradle's unique, sci-fi mystery.
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Nov 15, 2015
10
дивовижна гра-квест від українських розробників, яка надовго ще сидить у твоїй уяві від цікавого сюжету. на жаль продовження не буде. чекаємо на новий шедевр від чудової студії
Sep 3, 2015
10
Small but hearttouching game with neat visuals and music. It's a shame that it failed in sales and developers, perhaps, will go bankrupt. Alas, poor Yorick!
Aug 21, 2015
73
Cradle’s small, but rather open game world includes only our yurt, a spooky abandoned amusement park, an air tram line and endless Mongolian steppe. You’d think it would make a perfect stage for a very personal story, but developers decided otherwise: through newspaper clips, letters and dialogue they chronicle a global epidemic. [Sept 2015, p.85]
Aug 13, 2015
70
I enjoyed my time with Cradle, but I dare say many will not. Its detailed, although imprecise storytelling gives many of its suitors reasons to dislike it, to not understand it, and at worst give up on it. Regardless, I believe there is something quite special at work here.
Sep 25, 2015
60
Cradle successfully combines a strange world with mysterious story and beautiful design. But the actual game principles are, unfortunately, lagging behind.
Aug 4, 2015
50
Short, truncated and incomplete. Wasted potential for an excellent, intriguing science-fiction game. Cradle's biggest sin is the inability to turn the amazing world into equally good video game.
Aug 2, 2015
10
It is so beatiful in every way: story, characters, graphics, world. Maybe gameplay is too simple, but this game is not about it, it is about the story, like Dear Esther or Ethan Carter. But it'll not reveal it's story so easy. You need to look for pieces of the world under every table and in every box. And you need to play it at least 2 times to understand more.
Dec 28, 2020
7
This game look amazing but the developers decided to **** on it The story is awesome, unique, the graphics are good, the artwork is amazing then there is game play, absolutely disgusting, it makes you frustrated and give you headache, with that disgusting controls they decided to make the hardest nastiest puzzles of all time, there is only 4 puzzles in the game (thank god) and you can skip them after you lose (if you manage to lose which is harder than winning the puzzle), they are all the same puzzles over and over again, and its not only a bad puzzle, it's the worst puzzle i have ever played in my entire life, and i played lots of puzzle games overall: Story: 9/10 Game play: 1/10 Graphics: 7/10 Artwork: 9/10 never gonna play this game ever again because of the disgusting controls
May 10, 2018
7
За старание пять баллов. В остальном все не так и хорошо. Она жестко фризит и ворует память, но для студии дебютанта круто. Активижн и убейсофт делают на том же уровне и все покупают.. В целом игра вроде про квест, а получается за кубиками бегать пришлось. Я понимаю возможно не нашли решения чем нас занять, но лучше бы мы побродили по степи, ибо пространств много, а пришлось кубики собирать. Немного не к месту, но детям для развития в самый раз. Потом у нас история вроде и глубокая и твист есть серьезный, а заканчивается неким перемещением. Скомкано в общем. Кому рекомендую? Детям от 8 лет и жо 17.
Oct 8, 2016
4
What's more boring than cooking ? Cooking in a video game ! That's one of the reasons why I quickly left the yurt and ran around in the wilderness, and around, and around, and it was all empty and lifeless and funless and depressing and boring. It's very pretty, until you've seen the same rock pasted for the millionth time. Guys, if your game is so linear, why do you set it in a fake open world ? Back in the yurt then, where I can open a thousand drawers and read tons of small labels and notes, mostly in English, which is bizarre and not the Mongolia I remember, but fair enough. Sorry but environmental narrative is good when it's in the background, not when it's the only thing to look at. Also, for a game which relies so much on manipulating objects, it's very clunky. Every time I try to put an object back where it was, I end up losing it on the floor. And it seems the crouching key is only there for the purpose of being able to spot things that have fallen to the ground. I dislike empty game worlds.
Mar 17, 2016
4
This game has great visuals, but that's all. Storytelling is pretty much messed and turns out to be very silly when you dig more deeply into it. Gameplay is almost nonexistent here, we have some sparse adventure elements mixed with tedious and boring arcade parts (gladly we can skip those after failure). This game could be very good, but no, only wasted potential we can see here. What a shame...
SummaryCradle is a sci-fi first-person-view quest designed for the player to explore the surrounding world. The story is built around the relations of the protagonist and a mechanical girl who by quirk of fate found themselves amidst the desert.
