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Mysterious browser game, puzzle solving on a weird planet [Grow Cube]

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 2:22 pm
by ge0rg1e
Hi all. Trying to remember an old game I used to play. It would have been in the early 2000's, possibly earlier. Here's what I can remember about it:

- The game loaded on one web page
- The game featured a cartoony planet - you could see the whole thing - floating in space (black with stars)
- The user could click to various areas of the planet, which would make the planet spin slowly on its axis to the new area
- The gameplay involved solving puzzles, which would "unlock" another part of the planet. The puzzles would be mysterious, like you didn't know exactly what you were supposed to do. For example, there might be a ball and a slide and you had to figure out how to get the ball to the top of the slide and slide it down. This is just an example, not an actual puzzle.
- There was a mysterious order to the puzzles too - you had to figure out in which order to solve the puzzles or else you'd hit dead ends
- The imagery was comic style illustration, fairly low-res, not photo-realistic

This ring a bell with anyone? Or did I dream it?

Mysterious Windows game, puzzle solving on a weird planet

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 3:57 pm
by Swiftcutter
Samorost?

Mysterious Windows game, puzzle solving on a weird planet

Posted: Wed Jun 02, 2021 6:21 pm
by ge0rg1e
I just looked that up and while it looks amazing, it's definitely way higher-def than the game I remember playing. Thanks, though!

Mysterious Windows game, puzzle solving on a weird planet

Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 8:16 am
by MrFlibble
ge0rg1e wrote: - The game loaded on one web page
So it was a browser game, not a Windows game?

Mysterious Windows game, puzzle solving on a weird planet

Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:21 am
by ge0rg1e
Correct - sorry, I will correct that if I can. I was thinking PC vs. console, but yes, I remember loading it in browser.

And I was thinking that the fact that it was played in browser at that time probably means it was made in Flash.

Mysterious browser game, puzzle solving on a weird planet [Grow Cube]

Posted: Thu Jun 03, 2021 9:26 am
by ge0rg1e
UPDATE: I found it! It's Grow Cube.

OK, so it's very different from I described, but this is it. Thanks, all, for helping to jog my memory.