The Alien Cube

About The Alien Cube

The Alien Cube is a first-person horror adventure made by Alessandro Guzzo, released on Steam in October 2021. It is the spiritual successor to his earlier game The Land of Pain, and it was built in CryEngine 5 with photogrammetry for a realistic look.

You play Arthur, a lonely man whose life is coming apart: a breakup, a move, and the mysterious disappearance of his Uncle Edgar. You wake in a sweat from the same bad dream, of a strange cave, occult symbols, a ritual site and a whispering, cube-shaped artifact falling from the sky. Then a letter arrives: your uncle's testament, leaving you his apartment and a warning to get rid of all his manuscripts. Going there to look for clues sets off a series of terrible revelations.

You explore in first person, interacting with objects to solve puzzles and find clues, and survive what you meet in hostile weather, snowy forests, forgotten dungeons and otherworldly places. The screenshots move from a sunlit rocky stream to a car abandoned in a rainy night forest, a green sky with a ringed planet over black trees, a dark room of iron beds and a vaulted dungeon corridor.

It ties back to Uncle Edgar, the hero of The Land of Pain, and it suits players who like slow, realistic first-person cosmic horror such as Conarium or Call of Cthulhu.

How to play The Alien Cube

1. Buy it on Steam or the Epic Games Store (Windows).
2. Start as Arthur and go to your missing uncle's apartment.
3. Explore in first person and examine objects, notes and manuscripts for clues.
4. Solve the puzzles that open the way forward.
5. Follow the trail through forests, dungeons and stranger places to the truth.

Tips

• Read your uncle's manuscripts and notes; the story is in them.
• Look around carefully: puzzle pieces are hidden in the scenery.
• Play The Land of Pain too if you want the full story of Uncle Edgar.

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