Hyperbolica is a premium simulation game that lets you experience how it must be to exist in a surreal, non-Euclidean world. Solve puzzles, go on adventures, and find unusual secrets in this mind-boggling world. Its geometry warps regularly and colors are just unusually weird. It’s up to you to uncover the story that binds it all together, as well as the content that seems deliberately hidden.

Aesthetically, Hyperbolica strikes the same chord as Gardens of a New World, but with clearer, more vivid graphics. It might also be reminiscent of FEZ, but this game is a unique experience altogether.

Break the laws of physics

As a game, Hyperbolica is quite difficult to describe. For most of the time, you experience the usual 3D experience as one would in the real world. However, certain sections of the game will start warping to create different perspectives. You get to see the world from a fisheye perspective, and the world is also warped accordingly. It lets you travel great distances in a short time.

Even weirder is that there’s generally no indicator when these warps will happen. Characters hover over the sky, things appear larger the farther away they are from you, and many more. This makes mental mapmaking virtually impossible also, leaving you with basically no idea what happens next. The story is also dropped in hits and small references, sometimes through character dialogue.

Still, the game has a lot of activities for you to do, although like the rest of the game, expect it to be inexplicably weird. It will definitely confuse you the first few tries but once you get how its unusual mechanics work, it’s relatively easy. There are a lot of things to do in this game, although getting used to it will take up most of your time.

You have to see it for yourself

To better appreciate the unique work that is Hyperbolica, there’s no other way but to play it. In terms of content and playthrough, expect a big chunk of it to go to trying to understand what’s happening around you. Even then, there are in-game mechanics and content that remain elusive and hard to understand. It’s colorful, challenging, engaging, and definitely confusing–a must-try.