Small world out there. I found Shift Quantum on the Steam store the other day, and I can only assume it's the same folks who made the various Shift games in Flash back in the day. Fun little games, pretty good for being free and what was available at the time. They also made Epistory as it turns out, which I rather liked. Always good to see developers whose games I played all those years ago still there, still making games.
Shift is a puzzle game where you have to traverse a level via platforming. The twist? You can press shift to Shift, which turns everything inside out. What's up is now down, and what's solid is now not. This creates a whole bunch of new possibilities when combined with the other mechanics, such as pushing blocks, collecting stuff to open/move doors/platforms, and even changing the direction of gravity. It's not a very complicated mechanic, but it creates ways to think outside the box, like Portal, except not quite such a stroke of gold.
Quantum doesn't really deliver much anything new except for nicer graphics and sounds, and a bit more gameplay. Overall though, it's still too short for my liking and nothing that great as a game. Good for a free Flash game, not good enough for a paid game. But if you've never played Shift before and like non-standard puzzlers, it might be worth trying out, even if just the Flash versions while they're still available.
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