This game will BLOW YOUR MIND... The Bridge!

The Bridge is a fantastically unique puzzle game that clickbaits engineers into buying it, even though it's free on Epic!
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[@pranavghantasala6808]

“I haven't even done a bridge review!” Matt The game is called ‘The Bridge’ And you're reviewing it The whole video is a Bridge Review

[@rpgaholic8202]

Oh great, we're going to have to wait until he completes the game for his score. Longest Bridge Review so far.

[@noyb7920]

Also, there's a small bridge at the beginning, where he learned how to get up that 'steep' hill right next to it.

[@Soken50]

also he can rotate the world, every overhanging structure between two platforms is a bridge.

[@kallt8829]

Every wormhole is technically an Einstein-Rosen Bridge as well. 🤓

[@jordanwilliams1519]

🤯🤯🤯🤯

[@jakecheong664]

"Being an engineer i quickly headed to the steam page and bought the game" based matt

[@MrRyby]

nice

[@Scarlet-355]

@@MrRyby nice

[@frazonedracaoo6981]

@@Scarlet-355 nice

[@igorcastro7374]

​@@frazonedracaoo6981 nice

[@soltylobster]

​@@frazonedracaoo6981nice

[@headrockbeats]

Matt, the protagonist in this game is M.C.Escher, the man who invented those cool impossible drawings.

[@Echo_the_half_glitch]

Hehe, MC.

[@NicholasMarshall]

So you're telling us that the protagonist is an architect! Matt how could you betray us like this?

[@REYplucate]

Day 3 of asking matt to play mindustry again

[@dinoeebastian]

That would explain why the game is so similar to the Relativity painting on my wall

[@Sc1Z]

EPIC: "HEY WANT A FREE GAME?!?" Everyone: "I will gladly pay to not ever use your store"

[@ainsleyplays3768]

I don’t use EPIC anyway but why does everyone hate it?

[@eziitis8]

@@ainsleyplays3768 because they were paying devs to lock down the games to the single launcher, meanwhile the launcher was quite terrible and adding no value to the end user. Kinda like what's happening with all the streaming services now

[@private1177]

​​​@@ainsleyplays3768stealing your data and unethical behavior...trying to become a Monopoly by buying exclusive rights for games. While lying to their customers. And having a underdeveloped trash pile of Launcher. To explain further: the launcher was programmed to go through the files of your PC and send then to epic without you knowing. Only after being called out tim Sweeney said on reddit: " we know of this behavior but didn't see it as an issue until now where it became common knowledge so we will change it" because they didn't want to use steam API so they grabbed everyone's data right from the drive without permission. Then saying Steam is a monopoly and want fairer prices for devs and so on...while then going and buying exclusive rights to shift the majority to their platform. Then completely disregarding the features steam offers and develops for everyone for free to use like proton (which let's devs support Linux without needing to put development time in it themselves), Workshop and cloud saves. But offering no features of themselves. And so on. Then epic bought easy anti cheat, and the first thing they did was stop Linux development. Epic is a steaming pile of corporate lies and deception. Hope i could answer your question.

[@drucy.]

@@ainsleyplays3768 They run on exclusives to force people to use them. Meanwhile, just about everything concerning the launcher is atrocious.

[@ainsleyplays3768]

@@drucy. ah thank you for the explanation.

[@tigrecito48]

there is more than one meaning for bridge - - a structure carrying a road, path, railway - the elevated, enclosed platform on a ship - the upper bony part of a person's nose - a passage linking two sections of a composition - the support for the tip of a billiard cue formed by the hand - an electric circuit with two branches across which a detector or load is connected - a card game played by old people - to make (a difference between two groups) smaller or less significant - a time, place, or means of connection or transition - a piece raising the strings of a musical instrument - a partial denture anchored to adjacent teeth

[@forbiddenera]

- a networking construct linking two (or more) disjoint network segments through, most often, the logical combination of two (or more) network interfaces connected to those segments to be viewed as a single logical interface thereby linking those networks - a temporary workaround or resolution to a problem - a metaphor for the connection of differing sides of a problem or idea or anything also metaphorically referred to as a gap - where in betwixt

[@Typicalrn10]

And then you wonder why english is so confusing to non native speakers

[@3DPDK]

"Bridge" - verb - to _bridge_ two or more disconnected sides of a problem or idea. A _bridge_ can also be a musical device to connect the beginning to the end of a piece of music. The common theme is here is gravity - the bridge is that you can manipulate the orientation of gravity to the platform.

[@carcharoclesmegalodon6904]

That's an architect-ass explanation.

[@arvelcrynyd6311]

1:33 lol, dude, you’re only PLAYING AS M.C. Escher, the artist behind those “weird perception drawrings”.

[@bobiboulon]

"That how Newton came to discover that there was gravity" I wouldn't try to quote you in a history of science essay. :D

[@1st2nd2]

The apple story is the Architect's version. The Engineer's version involves working out how planets orbit the sun and moons orbit planets.

[@petertaylor4980]

​@@1st2nd2Newton had two important insights: the force we're familiar with on a small scale is the same one that acts on astronomical bodies; and if its strength varies as the inverse square of the distance, Kepler's laws drop out.

[@Real28]

This is another example of a very cool game with a novel take on what is basically your old school labyrinth game. I bet this was someone's "imma try this in coding" and it turned into this.

[@WackoMcGoose]

The dev trying to make arbitrary gravity vectors (Area IV) working: "And my last memory... was that of pain."

[@michaelanderson2166]

He said that it leads to more doors, but my brain heard Mordor… do I have a problem?

[@noyb7920]

Turns out that it is possible to walk into More Door.

[@MightyOProductions]

You have the best kind of problem.

[@robertalexander-bk5zj]

No certainly not you. Everyone else is the problem.

[@DrPsychotic]

Every pillar is a bridge when every wall is a floor

[@kingchamp5923]

Me getting impressed every time Matt says"Ball" "Wall" and "Floor" again and again

[@damegataco]

I remember playing this game a long time ago on Xbox... It's an excellent game and was extremely well made. It definitely deserves a second game with more puzzles even if it doesn't follow any story and was just various abstract puzzles in the same style.

[@steelhorn2029]

I hope you do more episodes of the bridge, until you finally find the final boss, the actual bridge

[@cheffrin3751]

Matt totally misses a knob at 14:38

[@asteroidclown]

I didn't know it was possible

[@paulk5670]

I prefer 'Guess and Check'. The engineering part is in how you select your initial guess based on prior knowledge, and subsequent guesses based on the information from previous guesses.

[@robertalexander-bk5zj]

1:05 Only there can it be unmade. The ring must be taken deep into Mordor and cast back into the fiery chasm from whence it came.

[@lisiasty6494]

Hot keys in your area.

[@morealias]

I've been playing this game off and on for about a decade. At first I'd play maybe 5-10 minutes here and there, every month or so. But it gets way harder the deeper you go in. I've gotten to the point where in order to progress, I have to sit down and replay my way up to where I'm so I basically know what I'm doing again. I've gotten past where I can play casually, and have to really put some brain effort in to progress... so I haven't played in about 4 years. I'm not a "puzzle game" guy. I'm a strategy or rpg game guy, so puzzles bore me pretty quickly, hence why I'd play this for a few mintues here or there, when I had like 10 minutes to kill and nothing else to do. But this game is just intriguing enough I kept coming back at it.

[@vcprado]

This game reminds me of Braid

[@Brynjolf93]

It looks like Braid, with mechanics like Monument Valley.

[@itsamepersonio7338]

The starting is just yesterday. In the United States, New Jersey was hit by an original 4.8 earthquake and many aftershocks, felt in a lot of the surrounding states

[@axel-11]

So many great "that's what she said" moments... as at 13:53

[@awalinabayyana]

Maybe the Bridge was the friends we made along the way, Matt

[@IronDino]

17:55 I suppose you could call this, 'Trial and Engineering'

[@forbiddenera]

Trial by Engineering

[@julia9714]

I just checked and it's 9 years since I finished this game, it came out in 2013, how has Matt only just heard of it?

[@rpgaholic8202]

Well, he was probably out doing his day job when it originally came out. He only started YouTubing back in 2020.

[@forbiddenera]

Epic says release date is 2023?

[@ardonjr]

​@forbiddenera It's 'released' ok EPIC only ten years after its original launch in 2013. Look it up on Google or something.

[@rpgaholic8202]

@@forbiddenera That's probably when it came to Epic's "store"

[@forbiddenera]

@@rpgaholic8202 ah yeah

[@user-bf9yd3xb9t]

The purple polka-dotted elephant twirled effortlessly through the shimmering marshmallow clouds, serenading a chorus of neon-colored unicorns with a symphony of rubber duck quacks, while a troupe of tap-dancing penguins performed a synchronized ballet on the surface of a glistening rainbow puddle, accompanied by a cacophony of kazoo-playing squirrels wearing top hats and monocles, all under the watchful gaze of a bespectacled giraffe conducting an invisible orchestra with a magic wand made of cotton candy, as a fleet of flying bicycles pedaled furiously to keep up with the rhythm of a celestial banjo played by a giggling starfish wearing a bow tie made of seaweed, while a flock of winged watermelons soared overhead singing sea shanties in perfect harmony with a choir of intergalactic jellyfish, and in the midst of this whimsical spectacle, a curious cloud shaped like a giant marshmallow bunny floated by, trailing a stream of rainbow-colored bubbles that popped into showers of glittering confetti, causing a herd of giggling elephants to break into a spontaneous conga line around a towering ice cream sundae adorned with a crown made of twinkling fireflies, while a mischievous troupe of misfit robots tap-danced on stilts made of spaghetti, juggling rubber chickens and rubber duckies with an impressive display of dexterity, as a parade of synchronized swimming narwhals somersaulted through the air in perfect formation, leaving trails of sparkles in their wake, and suddenly, without warning, the entire scene dissolved into a swirl of cotton candy clouds and pixie dust, leaving behind nothing but a sense of wonder and whimsy lingering in the air.

[@Poldovico]

The universe does persistently demand paperclips.

[@Bitrus2]

Him saying bool over and over instead of ball cracks me up

[@Jaronius]

Maybe the bridges are the friends we make along the way.

[@dunsbrowelo]

My childhood!!! 😭🔥

[@BAKAAirsoft-ue1nl]

love how this guy was like "free game on epic?nah,ill just pay for it on steam"

[@voidmaster01]

i feel like the point of naming it the bridge is to say a metaphorical bridge into some other dimension or "the Other Side" so not a Physical bridge. can we do a metaphorical bridge review next time

[@sarsoar]

Nice. I also started a video series on my channel on this game when I saw it in the epic store.

[@TheCreepsSD]

This is one of my favorite games! Glad to see it on RCE!!!

[@Ender-ti8wd]

You would like my background since then, there have need to give it a bridge review since it’s on on the side of a bridge and you can see all the support it at the review. All of the support is a good day off

[@RichardJr1134]

What a great idea for a maze/ puzzle type of game

[@ardonjr]

So, after watching this video, I was hyped. I found out it was available on the Nintendo Switch for only 1 euro and 33 cents. That's insanely cheap, so needless to say, I bought it and I really love it. These puzzle games are my most favourite. Just laid back on the couch, gaming and solving puzzles. Thanks dude!

[@alenonimo]

For the Bridge Review, you just needed to score the game.

[@orosvildheim]

Okay, now I really want to see you play Manifold Garden, it's like this, but 3D! Please! I would even buy the game for you if you want!

[@NicholasMarshall]

You want Matt to play a game full of impossible architecture? That would be a betrayal of every engineered bone in his body! Stop trying to corrupt our boy, he can't handle non-euclidean geometry. His brain will melt, and he would switch careers to become a theoretical mathematician!

[@orosvildheim]

@@NicholasMarshall i mean, he played this game, and posted the video, so he might have fun? Plus there are more than a few bridges to review. If not this, then either The Room series, or The House of DaVinci series would be cool as well, though not as fun as watching Manifold Garden

[@NoahGooder]

funfact this game is 11 years old

[@Thudd224]

The strange floating architecture reminds me of the submachine games.

[@CptChaosNL1984]

The game reminds me of 'And Yet It Moves', which uses the same principles :)

[@Tzurah]

Wouldn't the round room with three different spans across count and three separate bridges?

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

1:05 1 does not simple walk into more doors

[@maskedmischief932]

This funky game kind of reminds me of the Black Ops 2 map Die Rise. xD I think I'll go and play that now!

[@DeathnoteBB]

Omg I have this on Switch. It was super fun until I got stuck on a hard level 😂

[@Magavynhigara]

1:07 Missed lord of the rings reference.

[@wenyu330]

I used to play this game on PlayStation VITA and easily spent hours on it. It was quite a time-killer! 😂

[@neonxvices]

if you like this game you might like monument valley, it has a similar concept of moving the world around to move the character

[@NelielSugiura]

This is amazing; please do more!

[@carcharoclesmegalodon6904]

when you literally go against gravity itself in order to avoid touching balls

[@gp5313]

The bridge was a metaphorical name

[@mikelenz1990]

12:22 interesting indeed real civil engineer 👷

[@catborg780]

I bought this game on a whim on a switch sale. It's a nice surprise

[@tranquilthoughts7233]

I really like the artstyle on this one.

[@susanmontgomery7121]

@5:26 Getting a "Majora's Mask vibe here.

[@michaellopate4969]

So it's a little bit of Braid in terms of graphics, with And Yet It Moves gimmick, but puzzle instead of platform.

[@KamranAli-vg9rm]

There is a bridge after chapter 4 (yes I bought the game)

[@theprogrammer1]

I'm pretty sure when you "buy" a free game on the Epic store the developers still get paid, perhaps less than usual, but I reckon Epic covers the bill.

[@LexusLFA554]

Isaac Newton actually was never HIT by the apple on the head. He just saw them falling, and then got curious.

[@K-o-R]

The ball looks just like Ballos from _Cave Story._

[@anonymouspotato4899]

1:07 One does not simply walk into More-Doors

[@Liatriss]

This game is a surrealist gemstone

[@TheHughsie]

Nice art work!

[@taikutsunaneko9125]

matt remember what they say "It's easier to cross when every thing is a bridge"

[@gibbbon]

didn't even remember i got that game, at the time i was like "cool, let's play all of deus ex!" and i forgot i got another game that day

[@ogoemtojestesmuem7708]

Maybe the real bridge was the friends we made along the way?

[@jayglenn837]

Would love to see more!!

[@emorrissey4973]

Matt should play Monument Valley!! It’s a cool perception game similar to this. So cool and very beautiful.

[@rickoneill4343]

More games like this please.

[@snehasissahoo2485]

Yo maat played an architect game, there were architecture involved in the levels! Instead of actual civil engg..😂

[@jochem_m]

For future reference: Epic pays the developers for the free games they give out, so even just claiming the free games on the store supports the devs!

[@kinggrigori192]

This game blew my mind 🤯

[@nexxai]

This game is like the movie TENET

[@sloth0jr]

So, it's a little more than inspired by M.C. Escher. Pretty sure that your character IS M.C. Escher; looks a lot like him.

[@Kalmusenator]

Win move to support the developers (on STEAM)!

[@faremir]

Matt: Is free on epic games store Epic game store: Till March 21st Matt: Uploads April 6th Me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@royackerschott4617]

Rce please make a video when you play pacific drive It really is a amazing game to play And i think you can make a great video about it There even are a few godd bridges in the game wich are designed by engineer and those filthy architects

[@scottguy3506]

Looking so hard for a bridge, you missed some efficient engineering.

[@user--PM]

i did get the game on epic for free and i did play through it, it was quite the brain warp, played through in an afternoon.

[@Logia_]

Can't belive he forgot to do "The Bridge!" review😢

[@gruminator5048]

Day 11 of asking Matt to play voices of the void

[@pangurbanquick8330]

Must have been the same developers as Braid

[@dinoeebastian]

1:38, I have the better version of that (Relativity by M.C. Escher) on the wall outside my bedroom, it's been there my entire life

[@timothybaca6527]

meeds a vr versionof this game

[@maximk9964]

Wait a minute, something is not right, something is contrary to nature... Ah yes, that's not what apple trees look like

[@LukeTheJoker]

Just watching this did my head in.

[@blcha123]

Still here and waiting for Industrial Factory 2

[@gaysarahk]

Day 53 of notifying people that the Discord server's Suggestions forum is a better place to suggest new games to Matt. (Just don't ping him!)

[@andrewmulcahy9138]

Bro you should play out of ore. Its amzing now after all the updates

[@oogajiggawooga]

Ooooooooh, the motion sickness is real

[@qualpo]

you should play minecraft with the create mod

[@Die4Gesichter]

When was this recorded? The free games for me are "Thief" and "The Outer Worlds"

[@PoPoRybnik]

I'm guessing a month ago

[@Die4Gesichter]

@@PoPoRybnik maybe earlier in the month then, because the game before those tho was something "Scribble" something

[@TotallyNotAFox]

Heavily inspired by M.C. Escher it seems ^^

[@r.l.r.7550]

It's weird, for some reason Matt sounds like yellow guy from dhmis (tv) in this video. Is it just me?

[@TinaGloria2012]

This game is very interesting. I cant wait to see what Matt thinks about this game. 😊

[@snowballil3133]

Optical allusion puzzle

[@matthewtalbot-paine7977]

"this month's free game" Hmm that was a while ago.

[@sloth0jr]

What a beautiful game.

[@wrath_spirit4705]

Matt truly is an engineer for using Steam!