Blendo Games·Released Jul 25, 2016·Single player
Quadrilateral Cowboy is a single-player adventure in a cyberpunk world. Tread lightly through security systems with your hacking deck and grey-market equipment. With top-of-the-line hardware like this, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.
Staring off into space. Drumming a desk with your fingers. Loading the Facebook app on your phone for the fifth time in 20 minutes. Then, it happens: the
This scrappy, surreal escapade cleverly uses programming as a game mechanic, but can't quite follow through on its ideas.
It feels as if Quadrilateral Cowboy never finds a solution to this problem, but it moves through different ideas quickly enough, and does enough with its cool, colourful world and story of silent friendship, that I enjoyed my time with it.
Tactile hacking and fun gadgets make its cybercrimes shine, but late-game levels fail to deliver a strong finale.
Quadrilateral Cowboy makes you feel like a skilled hacker in a memorable 1980’s cyberpunk world.
Commit clever crimes in a weird and wonderful technoverse.
Quadrilateral Cowboy is one of the most enjoyable puzzle games in years.
Quadrilateral Cowboy teaches you to use its toys, but doesn't give a lot of room to use them
