Issue 041 — July 2026
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About EQI

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EQI is a trippy first-person arcade game built around spatial puzzles and wrapped in a synthwave soul. You find yourself in a digital world that twists and changes around you, constantly challenging your senses, focus and reflexes. This indie action-adventure with a strong puzzle backbone invites you to interface with a great mystery and, ultimately, to transcend it.

The experience is structured around more than 20 stages that steadily grow in size and difficulty. As you progress, you control your own movement while also shifting the world itself around you, a combination that keeps you solving puzzles, seeing through illusions and mastering increasingly demanding obstacle courses. The interplay between your motion and the shifting environment sits at the heart of every challenge.

Atmosphere is a key part of the draw, with an electronic pulse running through the game's original soundtrack that reinforces its hypnotic, synthwave-tinged mood. Summed up by its own mantra to experience, question and interface, EQI leans into sensation and disorientation as much as problem-solving. For PC players who enjoy stylish, mind-bending arcade puzzlers that test reflexes alongside perception, EQI offers a compact but distinctive trip through a world that never quite stays put.