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SeriesQ.U.B.E.

Q.U.B.E.

Critic score2 critics
First release
Dec 17, 2011
Publisher
Toxic Games
Genres
Indie, Platform, Simulator, Puzzle · Action, Science fiction

Q.U.B.E. is a first person puzzle solving game set in a structure made from white cubes. Coloured cubes in the environment can be manipulated by the player using a pair of technologically enhanced gloves. Using these coloured cubes as tools, the player must complete a series of challenging puzzles. Created by Toxic Games, Q.U.B.E cleverly integrates a unique visual world and a player’s intuitive physics and visual understanding to create engrossing puzzles.

Also known as Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion, QUBE

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Storyline
Set in a mysterious and abstract sterile environment, Q.U.B.E. (Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion) is a first-person puzzle game that challenges players to navigate each level by manipulating coloured cubes that surround them. There’s little to go on as the game begins – the player is dropped into an all-white room with few instructions, and simply has to figure their way out. The tone of game changes as the player finds small and big alterations to their environment, supported by an original score, inviting each player to let their imagination take over as to where they might be. Through experimentation and discovery, players will progress through an ever-evolving series of cube puzzles that will challenge them with logic, physics, platforming.Read more

Set in a mysterious and abstract sterile environment, Q.U.B.E. (Quick Understanding of Block Extrusion) is a first-person puzzle game that challenges players to navigate each level by manipulating coloured cubes that surround them. There’s little to go on as the game begins – the player is dropped into an all-white room with few instructions, and simply has to figure their way out. The tone of game changes as the player finds small and big alterations to their environment, supported by an original score, inviting each player to let their imagination take over as to where they might be. Through experimentation and discovery, players will progress through an ever-evolving series of cube puzzles that will challenge them with logic, physics, platforming.

Release dates
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Dec 17, 2011
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Jan 06, 2012
Mac
Dec 17, 2012
Time to beatIGDB · recorded
Main Story
6h
Age ratings
PEGI 12ESRB E
Game modes
Single player
Perspective
Virtual Reality, First person
Keywords
3d, steam, achievements, blocks, easy
… All 21, darkness, steam achievements, digital distribution, platform exclusive, polygonal 3d, puzzle platformer, original soundtrack release, minimalism, environmental puzzles, pax prime 2013, developer cameo, no hud, physics manipulation, reset button, first-person platforming, available on - luna plus

At a Glance

Critic Score
68
Main Story (IGDB)
6h

How it plays

Features

Input and devices

  • Partial controller support
Steam · recorded 16 Oct 2026

Steam features

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud saves
  • Steam Family Sharing
Steam · recorded 16 Oct 2026

Demos and free play

Steam · recorded 16 Oct 2026

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Steam Deck

Valve rates this game Unsupported · recorded 16 Oct 2026

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