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2008 · Digital Eel · Action · Indie

BrainPipe

PlayStation console exclusive

BRAINPIPE is a unique gaming experience. The ultimate objective is to transcend humanity. You do this by navigating the tunnels of your mind, exercising your hand-eye coordination while relishing in the funkadelic sights and sounds of your inner self. Collect the illuminated glyphs while avoiding the nasty obstacles. They may look all nice and shiny, even warm and inviting, but each brush with them brings you one step closer to eternal darkness!

Released: 24 December 2008
Platforms: PlayStation 3 PlayStation Portable Windows macOS
Genres: Action Indie
Developers: Digital Eel
Publishers: Shrapnel Games
Perspective: First person
Themes: Action
Country: United States
Age ratings: ESRB E
Languages: English
Time to beat: 0.5hmain story2hcompletionist

About

Brainpipe: A Plunge to Unhumanity is an action video game developed by Digital Eel for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS and handhelds and was released on December 24, 2008. The game received "Excellence in Audio" award at Independent Games Festival 2009.

›Story

What is BRAINPIPE?

Is it an otherworldly mind control device, masquerading as a seemingly quaint computer game?

Is it a gateway to worlds beyond our own, created by eldritch wizardry and invoked by strange creatures hidden away on uncharted islands in the South Pacific?

Perhaps it's a message from the future, an instruction to mankind to uplift humanity to a higher state of being.

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Reception

The PlayStation Portable version of BrainPipe received "Mixed or Average" reviews, according to review aggregator Metacritic.

Eurogamer praised the game's "psychedelic" graphics but criticized the game's gameplay, saying that it "isn't particularly satisfying or even all that interesting". Gamezebo expressed that the game's sound and graphics "[create] a lovely psychedelic atmosphere" that is "beautifully realised", and praised its fast-paced gameplay in later levels, stating that "it's surprising just how thrilling BrainPipe really is", but criticized the game's brevity.