Moncage Critic Reviews

Moncage tells an unforgettable story with creative "optical illusion" splicing and artistic narrative. In the exquisitely designed world of cubes, the change of color tone and angle adds a lot of fancy to the splicing. Instead of using words, the game lets the narrative do its work with the layout of the scene, the interaction of objects and the photos scattered in the corners. When players are getting closer to the truth, they will find that the gameplay has been further expanded, and the final true ending is even more impressive.

If you’re not moved to play it, consider watching an online playthrough of Moncage. It deserves to be seen.

The storytelling is a little vague and lacks emotional punch, but if you’re looking for some innovative mechanics and visual artistry, Moncage’s perspective-based puzzles set in colorful cube vignettes are a marvel to experience.

Moncage is an intelligent puzzle game, and its perspective-based riddles stretched my imagination as each scene flowed beautifully into the next. The narrative could have hit harder, and it sometimes felt like I had to align things perfectly for the game to accept the correct answer, but Optillusion’s title is a challenge worth picking up.

Moncage is a game that can blow your mind, but that ultimately fails to make the most of its impressive concept, relying too much on trial and error.

Despite a fragmented, impactless storytelling, Moncage is a fascinating and clever puzzle-adventure with quite challenging perspective-based riddles.

This is the kind of ornamental contraption that elicits oohs and aahs when examined from afar, but was never REALLY designed to be played with.

On its surface, Moncage does so many things I like. Its narrative is conveyed through interaction, rather than through text or cutscenes. Its predominant mechanic is clever. It’s short. But it stands as an example of just how easily a game can be undone by only one or two critical shortcomings. There’s a world in which a few chewy brain teasers would be enough for me to overlook some one-dimensional characters–this is a puzzle game after all. One-dimensional puzzles, though, are harder to forgive.

It might not be quite up there with The Room as an all-time puzzle classic, but it's probably the closest we've come to a spiritual successor in quite some time.

Moncage offers a gorgeous blend of narrative threads and teasing puzzles, that makes for a game of real elegance.