Rogue Bit

Genre: Puzzle / Maze Game

Players: 1

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Review:

Rogue Bit is an odd Puzzle/Maze Game where you are a single bit in a computer program looking to escape. The interesting conceit of this game is that you have both a visual representation of what’s happening on-screen, and a separate representation showing everything going on represented completely in binary code, which you’re meant to refer back to to solve puzzles.

The idea behind this game is pushed further by the game’s presentation, which looks very much like an old-fashioned computer program (or for you youngsters, the machine code from The Matrix). However, I feel like this may be a bit too simplistic for a different reason.

After the early puzzles, the game begins adding complexity based on the basic concept, first showing you that characters can be faked using different binary codes, and then progressing to actual programs. However, the textual instructions for this are easy enough to zip past without noticing, and some of the earlier puzzles can be surpassed without fully understanding how they work, leaving you clueless how to deal with them when things get more difficult.

If you understand programming, or are meticulous about absorbing every bit of information that appears onscreen, Rogue Bit might speak to you, but for everyone else, it will quickly become frustrating and indecipherable, and as a result, impossible to play.

tl;dr – Rogue Bit is a puzzle/maze game that has you guiding a single bit of a computer program as it navigates through the program to escape. Unfortunately, this clever conceit quickly leads to puzzles that will only be solved by the most observant and most tech-savvy of players. For everyone else, it just becomes incomprehensible.

Grade: D-

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