The Bridge

The Bridge is a logic puzzle game that forces you to reevaluate your preconceptions of physics and perspective. It is Isaac Newton meets M. C. Escher. Manipulate gravity to redefine the ceiling as the floor while venturing through impossible architectures.

The Bridge is a puzzle-platformer, hand-drawn and surreal game developed by The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild and Ty Taylor and Vega Castañeda and published by The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild.
Released on February 22nd 2013 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 24 languages: English, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese - Portugal, Romanian, Spanish - Spain, Turkish, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Arabic, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Thai, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, Swedish, Traditional Chinese and Ukrainian.

It has received 4,278 reviews of which 3,730 were positive and 548 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified The Bridge into these genres:

Puzzle-Platformer Hand-drawn Surreal Physics 2D Puzzle Singleplayer Emotional Logic Indie Strategy Platformer Difficult Atmospheric Casual Adventure Stylized Abstract Philosophical Dark

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Processor:1.0 GHz
Memory:512 MB RAM
DirectX®:9.0
Hard Drive:400 MB HD space

MacOS

OS X 10.6 or newer
Processor:1.4 GHz
Memory:2 GB RAM
Hard Drive:400 MB HD space
GPU with 256MB cache with Open GL 2.1 recommended

Linux

Processor:1.4 GHz
Memory:2 GB RAM
Hard Drive:400 MB HD space
GPU with 256MB cache with Open GL 2.1 recommended

Reviews

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Jan. 2025

Escher like puzzle game, about 2.5 hours. Fun enough on the steam deck, doesn't outstay its welcome.

Oct. 2024

Awesome music, ambient and mechanics: the mechanic of going backwards is so convenient for completing the puzzles.

Sept. 2024

Shake the tree with gravity, An apple thuds you awake. Look around at solid ground, You realize your mistake. What did that apple do to me? This is definitely not reality! Why do I control gravity? Who put all these puzzles here? Why the hell did I just veer? Rewind and shed no tear. The mirror is no clearer, Pure madness goes on. Problem solve evolve, Until the mind is gone.

July 2024

This is a short, fun and sweet puzzle game. If you've ever wanted to be inside MC Escher's art and feel what it's like to exist there this is the closest you're going to get outside of drug induced mental states.

June 2024

The Bridge is a game that, for the most part, is limited not by it's design so much as it's ability to control. I understood the vast majority (though importantly, not all) of the puzzles very quickly, but wrestling with the controls to make that realisation happen is a herculean effort. In addition, while the first half of the game is competent, short, and succinct, the "mirrored" world ultimately fails to live up to expectations. Despite the name, levels are not mirrored, they're the same levels but usually with more enemy balls (I think they're called mayhems?), which ultimately just means you're completing each level twice, but the second time it's harder and usually less reasonable, with more finnicky elements required. When it's all boiled down to it, The Bridge is a game where the art is excellent, the music is solid, the sound design is servicable, the plot is... well it's hard to say, mainly because it takes far too much effort for very little reward - ultimately meaning that I have no interest in it, and the game play has moments of solid, fun experience - curtailed by suffering, torment and frustration. I'm hesitant to recommend this game, but ultimately, it's servicable and good value on a sale. While I didn't enjoy a good amount of the game, ultimately, I think it's selling points are strong enough to provide sufficient value on sale.

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9.99€

8.4

3,730

548

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Developer

The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild, Ty Taylor and Vega Castañeda

Publisher

The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild

Release 22 Feb 2013

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