Cubic Run

Genre: Arcade

Players: 1

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Review:

Cubic Run is an Arcade-style game released in 2024 on PlayStation 4 and ported to Nintendo Switch in 2025. This game has players guiding a blue cube through a white corridor while avoiding red obstacles.

The game uses a simple, clean 3D presentation that looks decent enough, though it’s a bit plain. This is backed by an electronica soundtrack that’s loud and fast-paced in a way that doesn’t really seem to fit the rest of the game. I suppose there’s nothing outright terrible here, but it’s decent enough, I suppose.

In theory, the gameplay here is decent enough, with players sliding their cube left and right, then rotating the corridor to slide onto the walls when you reach them, and using the A button to flip gravity. And if this is all I had to say, it would be a somewhat simple but compelling game.

The problem is, the game has a major flaw in that players can get stuck in a corner, unable to get the game to work properly and inevitably dying shortly afterward. This glitch happened multiple times as I played.

Given Cubic Run’s Arcade-style gameplay, it really calls for precise gameplay, and having such a fundamental flaw really wrecks that. It’s a shame too, because there are stretches of time where the game plays fine, and is reasonably enjoyable. But when another failure caused by the game is always lurking around the corner, I cannot recommend this to anyone.

tl;dr – Cubic Run is an Arcade-style game that has players sliding around a cube in a corridor avoiding oncoming obstacles. When it works, the core gameplay here is simple but entertaining. But unfortunately, the game repeatedly has an issue where players get stuck in a corner and die. With this fatal flaw, I cannot recommend that anyone get this game.

Grade: F

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