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Site | $19.99 (Standard), $29.99 (Deluxe) | Steam, Buy from Blendo | PC (Mac & Linux in September)
Launch trailer | 2014 developer demo | Indiecade trailer | 2013 trailer
Releases at 10AM PST / 1PM EST
Hacking. Dial tone. Cassette decks. Sabotage. Suitcase decks. Brainbox injectors.
Quadrilateral Cowboy is a single-player adventure in a cyberpunk world. Tread lightly through security systems with your hacking deck and grey-market equipment. When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.
The Standard Edition includes:
- Quadrilateral Cowboy.
- Developer commentary.
- Reference manual.
The Deluxe Edition includes:
- Everything in the Standard Edition.
- The Quadrilateral Cowboy interactive art book.
- PDFs for box art, poster, and papercraft characters.
For more details on the interactive art book and other info, visit the FAQ hereIs this game as short as Gravity Bone or Thirty Flights of Loving?
Quadrilateral Cowboy is significantly longer than Thirty Flights of Loving and Gravity Bone.
Do I need to know programming in order to play this game?
No. Quadrilateral Cowboy assumes you have zero knowledge in how to program.
Does Quadrilateral Cowboy support mods?
Yes. Quadrilateral Cowboy has full mod support, and features Steam Workshop support.
Game Informer - 9.5/10
Gamespot - 9/10Quadrilateral Cowboy is a strange, fantastic journey that will likely charm and test you in equal measure. I expect to come back to it many times over the next few months despite having completed it, searching the environments for nuggets of the story hidden away in the corners of each level and striving to become the best thief this side of cyberspace.
Destructoid - 9/10Quadrilateral Cowboy succeeds in astonishing ways: It makes you feel like an incredibly accomplished computer hacker and agent of espionage. It creates an eccentric, thorough world that feels good to exist in and creates characters you can empathise with, despite the lack of a clear plot thread. Quadrilateral Cowboy presents you with a spectrum of moments, and each moment makes you feel great.
Polygon - 8/10There are no other games like Quadrilateral Cowboy, and it will likely stay that way. Its a unique blend of computer science, puzzles, and beautiful storytelling that could only come from Blendo Games.
PC Gamer - 80/100It's clear Blendo is hoping other players take these toys and run with them; there is, in fact, a large button that reads "Mods" right there on the main menu. But as it stands now, Quadrilateral Cowboy feels like a wonderfully designed class in a beautiful, fascinating school that stops just short of showing how much fun you can have after graduation.
Hardcore Gamer - 4/5A few technical issues aside, Quadrilateral Cowboy is a clever puzzle game bursting with personality.
The Sixth Axis - 8/10Despite a mind-boggling choice to switch things up drastically midway, Quadrilateral Cowboy is an innovative puzzler that plays with both the angles of hacking and heist films in a terrific way, making for something that those who enjoy brain-teasers with a bit of spice will enjoy. The wait for this one was indeed worth it in the end
Game Revolution - 4/5Quadrilateral Cowboys a game that gets hacking right if you permit me calling it that with the command line interface brilliantly letting you manipulate the world and use the other tools of the cyberpunk heisting trade. Its effortlessly cool, from a slightly nerdy retro perspective, but hidden beneath that, theres a simple and very ordinary feeling tale of a trio of kickass women living outside the law and pulling off ever more outlandish heists.
I can easily recommend Quadrilateral Cowboy, one of my favorite indie games so far this year, to anyone looking for an adventure game that brings something that feels fresh and new to the table and leaves you feeling smart as you've become a hacking god, or in this case goddess.