- Publisher: Blendo Games
- Release Date: Jul 25, 2016
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Jul 27, 2016The latest from the creator of Gravity Bone and Atom Zombie Smasher is a weird and heartfelt espionage adventure you won't soon forget.
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Jul 25, 2016Quadrilateral Cowboy is a strange, fantastic journey that will likely charm and test you in equal measure. I expect to come back to it many times over the next few months despite having completed it, searching the environments for nuggets of the story hidden away in the corners of each level and striving to become the best thief this side of cyberspace.
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Aug 4, 2016Quadrilateral Cowboy is one of those pleasant surprises, adding new depth to the puzzle genre and injecting a little bit of charm in between the heists.
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Aug 1, 2016Quadrilateral Cowboy is the perfect mix of cybercrime and cyberpunk, that trades in the darker, hard-edged aesthetic of Mr. Robot and Uplink for something that's infinitely more charming and endearing.
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Jul 25, 2016Quadrilateral Cowboy succeeds in astonishing ways: It makes you feel like an incredibly accomplished computer hacker and agent of espionage. It creates an eccentric, thorough world that feels good to exist in and creates characters you can empathise with, despite the lack of a clear plot thread. Quadrilateral Cowboy presents you with a spectrum of moments, and each moment makes you feel great.
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Jul 25, 2016There are no other games like Quadrilateral Cowboy, and it will likely stay that way. It’s a unique blend of computer science, puzzles, and beautiful storytelling that could only come from Blendo Games.
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Aug 1, 2016If you like puzzles, it's a game you have to play. Clever, original and really well designed, Quadrilateral Cowboy is yet another proof of the talent of Bento Games.
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Aug 1, 2016Quadrilateral Cowboy's hacking mechanics are open to anyone, even if you have never typed any command into a DOS-like shell before. It is a great game, but when it will be all done you'll probably want more of it because the missions never let you really experiment with the hacking terminal and other tools.
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Jul 27, 2016With Quadrilateral Cowboy, Chung eschews the filmic jump-cuts he experimented with in Thirty Flights of Loving. Still, the fragmented plot produces a similar result: as it happens, it already feels like a collection of memories.
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Jul 28, 2016Quadrilateral Cowboy’s puzzles are mostly a joy to play. Its command line hacking is surprisingly accessible and pleasingly tactile, and when combined with its many interesting gadgets it allows for plenty of creative problem-solving and freedom in tackling all manner of whimsical cybercrime.
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Aug 4, 2016Quadrilateral Cowboy's fascination with precision is only matched by its fondness for personalized anarchy. Imagine the empowerment of executing a line of effective and largely improvised code combined with the ignorance that you're just moments away from shooting yourself in the head. At its best, Quadrilateral Cowboy is all of the fun and experimentation of retro-future cyber heists without all of the existential horror that comes with most definitions of mortality.
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CD-ActionNov 18, 2016If you worry you’ll get stuck because of all the hacking (done by typing in commands), rest assured that Quadrilateral Cowboy turns it into pure pleasure. [11/2016, p.65]
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Sep 28, 2016Unusual, unique, exciting. Quadrilateral Cowboy is a puzzle game that will make you assume the role of an expert hacker, committed to steal information without being detected. Highly recommended to those looking for an unforgettable adventure, artistically inspired, complex.
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Edge MagazineSep 26, 2016If all this wasn't enough, there's also an affecting story going on. [Oct 2016, p.114]
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Sep 21, 2016Quadrilateral Cowboy is a puzzle game unlike any other, but it’s not quite substantial enough to establish itself as a bonafide classic.
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Aug 21, 2016Just like Portal, although perhaps not quite as impactful, Blendo Games have come along and changed the way people perceive the environmental puzzler. It’s the finer details though that ultimately let it down; there’s never really a stress test of your skills, and you’re never confronted with a situation where you can use your entire arsenal to overcome the ultimate puzzle. Still, it looks great and, despite a degree wasted potential, plays great too.
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Aug 8, 2016A fun, complete and challenging experience for your brain; Quadrilateral Cowboy shall force you to finish every single level in order to feel satisfied.
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Aug 7, 2016Intensely atmospheric and brilliantly executed from a “mechanical” standpoint, Quadrilateral Cowboy somehow manages to feel more like a tease for an epic saga of retro-futuristic cyber-espionage than a complete game unto itself. It will delight puzzle game fans with the clever implementation of it’s “hacking” routines and balanced learning curve but story fans will potentially find less than they may expect.
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Aug 2, 2016It might be too short and a bit clunky, but Blendo Games’ newest effort finds joy in the weird and wonderful retro-future world of 1980s coding.
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Jul 29, 2016One of the best hacking-themed video games ever, and a clever puzzler with some surprisingly successful storytelling elements.
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Jul 28, 2016Smart, engaging, and memorable.
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Jul 26, 2016A game about conducting heists from behind a pc screen? It sure sounds mundane and complicated. Blendo Games though, have somehow managed to pull it off with ease in Quadrilateral Cowboy. They’ve put together a highly polished, surprisingly enjoyable product - one which every gamer should at least consider playing at some point.
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Jul 25, 2016Despite a mind-boggling choice to switch things up drastically midway, Quadrilateral Cowboy is an innovative puzzler that plays with both the angles of hacking and heist films in a terrific way, making for something that those who enjoy brain-teasers with a bit of spice will enjoy.
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Jul 25, 2016A few technical issues aside, Quadrilateral Cowboy is a clever puzzle game bursting with personality.
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Jul 25, 2016I can easily recommend Quadrilateral Cowboy, one of my favorite indie games so far this year, to anyone looking for an adventure game that brings something that feels fresh and new to the table and leaves you feeling smart as you've become a hacking god, or in this case goddess.
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Jul 25, 2016It’s effortlessly cool, from a slightly nerdy retro perspective, but hidden beneath that, there’s a simple and very ordinary feeling tale of a trio of kickass women living outside the law and pulling off ever more outlandish heists.
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Jul 25, 2016It's clear Blendo is hoping other players take these toys and run with them; there is, in fact, a large button that reads "Mods" right there on the main menu. But as it stands now, Quadrilateral Cowboy feels like a wonderfully designed class in a beautiful, fascinating school that stops just short of showing how much fun you can have after graduation.
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Pelit (Finland)Nov 9, 2016Insanely stylish and full of intriguing gameplay ideas. Shame there's really no levels that would bring all of these ideas together! Still worth picking up, but could've been more. [Oct 2016]
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Sep 7, 2016Another "strange" game from Blendo, Quadrilateral Cowboy feels more like a proof of concept that will leave you just wanting from it to be more, well, everything. It sets its concepts up nicely, but doesn't do much with them.
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Sep 11, 2016Compared to their previous creations, Blendo Games shows some promising progress. So far, they've mastered interactive introductions and tutorials. Still waiting for a full-fledged game, though.
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Oct 19, 2016The closest a game has ever come to making me feel like a hacker.
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Jul 27, 2016It’s a stylish, retro-futurist love letter to computing, engineering and ’90s videogame level design. It also feels like the prelude to a better game.
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Aug 1, 2016Instead of being a masterpiece, Quadrilateral Cowboy is “just” excellent. Every element that has previously elevated Chung’s work above his peers is present: the unique visual aesthetic coupled with, possibly, the best use of public domain music in the medium; the unbridled imagination painting every corner of Nuevos Aires as at once otherworldly and instantly familiar; the constant subversions in form and structure culminating in a mid-game shift that is as striking as it is inexplicable.
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Jul 26, 2016Like its subjects, Blendo Games’ new PC puzzler Quadrilateral Cowboy is unafraid to be messy. It’s a puzzle game that doesn’t feel like one, a narrative game without a single speaking role. Taking place in a William Gibson-esque dreamscape, it puts you in the role of a slick hacker armed with clunky tech.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 16 out of 29
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Mixed: 8 out of 29
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Negative: 5 out of 29
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