The first, the blue gun, lets you pick up blocks, store them, and place them. There are four levels of gun with any relevance. Blocks are needed to fill certain gaps in the environment with various effects, usually for opening doors to let you progress. Like Portal, however, much of the gameplay in Antichamber is predicated on the employment of a special gun, in this case a block gun. Flights of stairs remain in existence only as long as you are looking at them, and so on.

Bridges appear under your feet only when you actually walk on them. This is another example of the interesting way in which Antichamber simulates the realisation of what would otherwise be visual trickery, based on the premise that simply observing something does not mean that it is actually there and vice-versa. You step back, and you are now in the blue room. You approach the window until you can see nothing but the blue room. There is a window in the middle of the room through which a blue room is visible, although walking all the way around the window reveals nothing but red room. There is a certain element suggestive of quantum indeterminacy to many of the puzzles as well, which is to say that things change based not on what you do but how you observe your environment. A better term might be extra-dimensional within the world of Antichamber it is possible for two different objects to exist in the same space, only accessible through different means. Some reviewers have described the game as 'non-Euclidean', but given that the game doesn't really involve geometry on non-planar surfaces that's rather misleading. That doesn't explain very well, so let me elucidate by example. Antichamber is a first person puzzler which takes place in a surreal environment requiring the employment of unconventional logic. Anyway, allow me explain, if you will, the premise of the game. I'm fairly sure the fact that it's an Indie game cancels that out. It was for this reason, therefore, that I jumped on the bandwagon. I did a quick spot of research and it appeared from other players that this was indeed the case. This was similar to what initially attracted me to Portal as well, and the two games are reminiscent of each other, being visually austere first person puzzle experiences with simple mechanics and limited story elements. I was intrigued, I must admit, by its core premise - the use of a virtual environment to simulate as if it were real certain ideas which only occur through visual trickery in real life. I came across Antichamber on its release day simply by perusing the Steam Specials, as I am wont to do, and there it was at a mild discount. What it is, however, is an interesting Indie Game to which I can give something of a recommendation.

That's lucky, because Antichamber is neither of those things. Now I'm not the kind of person who is in the habit of describing anything as a 'masterpiece' or, worse still, a tour de force.

Antichamber walkthrough