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By Claire Crossman
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Sci-fi puzzle adventure is kid-friendly and clever.
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Entropy Centre
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What's It About?
ENTROPY CENTRE is an RPG (role-playing game) puzzle adventure, where you play as a protagonist working to reverse Earth's demise. Playing through the eyes of the main character (through a first-person perspective), you navigate puzzles and enemies to accomplish your goals. A main mechanic of the game is to send actions and objects into reverse – signaling the objective to "reverse" damage done to the Earth. Players use their ray gun-esque machine to move power blocks to different areas of puzzle rooms in order to generate enough power to help reverse Earth's imminent demise. Along the way, you're accompanied by the AI that lives in your reversal gun, who provides helpful tips and unexpectedly funny jokes throughout your exploration.
Is It Any Good?
This mysterious puzzle game is a fun combination of eerie vibes and cutesy mechanics. Reminiscent of Control's seemingly endless sprawl of corporate offices and hallways, Entropy Centre does a great job of keeping you engaged, a little on edge, and giggling at smart delivery from your robot-gun-friend. The game's reversal actions are also very aesthetically pleasing. This is one of those games that has you saying "huh!" and "woah" under your breath the whole time.
Despite these wins, the game does occasionally drag in pace. Ideally, there are consistent plot advancements throughout the playthrough, and perhaps this is most apparent because The Entropy Centre has such a fascinating opening – you expect that something big is about to happen, and rarely get that payoff. It's a slow burn, but when you are presented with a reveal (like finding out details on a tucked-away computer's emails) they really spark. Regardless of the plot development, it's full of surprises and gags that help you forget that you just watched the entire Earth explode in the opening scene.
Talk to Your Kids About ...
Families can talk about how discussions around the Earth's decline are frequent. What can we do as a family to help take care of our planet?
In Entropy Centre, you are able to reverse actions to fix your mistakes, but what are some ways we can avoid making careless mistakes in real life?
Game Details
- Platforms : Xbox One , Xbox Series X/S , PlayStation 5 , PlayStation 4 , Windows
- Pricing structure : Paid ($22.49)
- Available online? : Available online
- Publisher : PlayStack
- Release date : November 3, 2022
- Genre : Puzzle
- Topics : STEM
- ESRB rating :
- Last updated : September 29, 2025
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