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Steam gets Q.U.B.E., the first Indie Fund game

First-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E., released yesterday, now has a demo available on Steam. The game is the first to be released with the backing of the Indie Fund, which provides financial support for independent games.

First-person puzzle game Q.U.B.E., released yesterday, now has a demo available on Steam. The game is the first to be released with the backing of the Indie Fund, which provides financial support for independent games.

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Adi Robertson
is a senior tech and policy editor focused on online platforms and free expression. Adi has covered virtual and augmented reality, the history of computing, and more for The Verge since 2011.

Q.U.B.E., the visually stark first-person puzzle game based around manipulating the titular cubes, was released yesterday on Steam. A 20-minute demo showcases the basic mechanics of the game — namely, your character’s ability to extrude and retract blocks with different properties from an abstract environment. The full game is currently $12.74.

The game is backed by the Indie Fund, a group dedicated to providing money to indie developers without the restraints of publishing contracts. The Indie Fund includes such gaming luminaries as Jonathan Blow (creator of Braid) and the creators of puzzle game World of Goo. While Q.U.B.E. is the first Fund-backed game to see release, the group is also supporting a remake of interactive fiction game Dear Esther, which will be released in February, and the upcoming heist game Monaco.

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