Four Sided Fantasy
Four Sided Fantasy
Game
Game2014
TRI: Of Friendship and Madness
Developer Rat King Entertainment
Find a way through the towers and dungeons of TRI by solving puzzles, climbing impossible ascents and reflecting light-rays. The mystical TRI will let you create your own paths in this strange world – just try not to lose your mind when you're falling upside down! From the Steam store page
263 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Nov 5, 2026 · last updated Nov 6, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
76
LovedLoved
146 positive · 45 negative
95% range 70–82%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 146 | 45 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 11 | 1 | 60 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
278 of 335 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
77% recommend · 147 yes, 44 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 191 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (434 of 511 positive).
Players praise the unique triangle-based puzzles and beautiful art style. [1][2] Some reviewers find the game tedious and frustrating, especially later levels. [3][4][5] Several players report motion sickness and control issues. [1][6][7]
Liked
Representative posts
- [3]
An interesting first-person puzzle game revolving around drawing triangles in the world which change gravity when you walk on them. Starts out strong, but unfortunately it goes on WAY too long, and the puzzles get more and more tedious and obtuse until it stops being fun.
- [1]
I never would thought i would get motion sickness from playing a first person puzzler yet. I ended up with a terrible headache and motion sickness at least 4 times for this game. Yet.. it's so magical that I fail to put it down so many time. It's just so beautiful and so smart the way all the level and puzzles goes together. Once you pass the easy first few levels it gets harder and harder and triangle/laser will …
- [9]
First off, TRI isn't for everyone, It's a puzzle platformer with very complex mechanics when compared to games like Portal. Although it has nothing to do with programming, It is similar to Zacktronics puzzle games in terms of having high complexity, masochistically hard end-game difficulty, and multiple answers for the same puzzle/problem. Some of you may not like that, but others will certainly love it! As do I! …
- [2]
There's something about this quirky, whimsical game that gives it so much character. I just love that a team of only three is behind such a unique little gem.
- [8]
Brilliant fps puzzle game. - Unique mechanic. Tasteful design. Tranquil music. Solid lore and backstory. - Straightforward main puzzles with rising difficulty. - The collectibles are practically the hard mode, finding them takes patience and getting them all can be really challenging. (Most of them are tied to hidden achievements as well). So the player is free to choose how deeply to explore a level. - Levels vary …
Summarised from 34 of the 241 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
Players who liked TRI: Of Friendship and Madness talk about unique and clever puzzle mechanics; those who didn't talk about causes motion sickness and headaches. Which matters more to you?
Reactions
60 of 263 · most liked firstOchoa kissing the goal posts goodbye while El Rey plays in the background. The last of the golden generation, a legend of the game, one of the best to represent El Tri. It means something to me. If this is it, thanks for everything!
neutral · AI labelView post →Female & Male Hunters, Jaggi, and Lagiacrus from Monster Hunter 3 (Tri). More art from the game: www.creativeuncut.com/art_monster-...
neutral · AI labelView post →I cannot wait for Lagiacrus to drop on Monday! Tri was my first Monster Hunter game and it left a deep impression on me. We are going back to the sea! Happy Hunting All! #Lagiacrus #MHArt #MHWilds
positive · AI labelView post →Brok the InvestiGator is a fun game, but my favorite @cowcatgames.com release was always that one courtroom game where he's a lawyer instead of a private detective. I spent countless hours playing it on my old Tri-Play Mini handheld.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tri-Crescendo worked on Donkey Kong Bananza. It's their first big game credited since 2022. Previous works: Tales series, Star Ocean series, Valkyrie Profile series, Smash Bros. Ultimate
neutral · AI labelView post →Context: This DVD was included in the Hong Kong and Taiwan release of Tri Force Heroes, and contains a 5-minute Let's Play style video showing you how to play the game. This was done likely because it was simply the Japanese version of the game in Chinese packaging archive.org/details/Zeld...
neutral · AI labelView post →BBQ Pork Jambalaya got 🥇 in @texas-splatoon.ink, H-Town Splashdown #7, and TX reps for LCS! We didn't drop a single game! GGs to all! @minerbckt.bsky.social - Bucket! @pikadave465.bsky.social - N-Tri! @parachuspl.bsky.social - Heavy Splatling! @drawingdudelen.art - Blaster! #CompSplatoon
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't know what it is about MH people that got these weird chips on their shoulder about every single game, but between that and how for most of these people MH started at Tri I think MH fans shouldn't be allowed to make video essays.
negative · AI labelView post →She protecc She attacc but most importantly She bring land fragment bacc Drawing of Princess Zelda and Tri from The Legend of Zelda: Echoes of Wisdom! I mixed the art style of that game and BOTW/TOTK's brushy paintings for this^^ #TheLegendOfZelda #ZeldaArt #ZeldaFanart #Art
neutral · AI labelView post →I´m so hyped for this game, so i had to draw Zelda and Tri. This will be my hyper fixation for the rest of the year 😂 #TheLegendofZelda #EchosofWisdom #Fanart #Art
neutral · AI labelView post →Worse losing streak in club history is what happened. Decided to melt down over a called check swing three pitches into the game and go watch El Tri.
neutral · AI labelView post →Going to the FC Salzburg-Al Hilal game and based off the Metro stop, this is going to be the most random mix of jerseys at a given game Spotted Inter Miami, Tigres, Morocco, Liverpool, El Tri, Man City, Real Madrid and Nigeria so far The Spirit have a game tonight so I’m rocking the home team
neutral · AI labelView post →I never would thought i would get motion sickness from playing a first person puzzler yet. I ended up with a terrible headache and motion sickness at least 4 times for this game. Yet.. it's so magical that I fail to put it down so many time. It's just so beautiful and so smart the way all the level and puzzles goes together. Once you pass the easy first few levels it gets harder and harder and triangle/laser will haunt your dream if you fail to solve the puzzles. Every time I found one of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Zelda and Tri from Echoes of Wisdom. I didn't finish the game, but I think I was close, which isn't bad for me these days.
neutral · AI labelView post →It’s literally been a careerlong dream to watch a game I worked on speedrun at a GDQ. Love you Zelda and Tri!!!! 💖
positive · AI labelView post →Its funny watching Monster Hunter Wilds turn into Monster Hunter Tri in real time where you can see them just start ditching everything unique to that game for a more unified MonHun experience the only difference is that all of the Tri features were interesting and actually designed monsters+fights
positive · AI labelView post →Book news! Coming spring 2027, ANDY AND THE TRI-CORNERED BASEBALL GAME is my first historical fiction, inspired by a real game that brought the Dodgers, Yankees, and Giants together for one game in 1944 as part of a war bond drive.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tri-Stringer is theoretically the best weapon in the game
positive · AI labelView post →Forgot to show off that I made an Ashiko Tri-Stringer fit based on the one I use in-game 🐟🏹
neutral · AI labelView post →Tri-Slosher is the Easiest Weapon in the Game!! #Splatoon3 #Splatoon youtu.be/G6nFQ843750
neutral · AI labelView post →That was almost certainly Memo's last game with El Tri. 😢
neutral · AI labelView post →There's something about this quirky, whimsical game that gives it so much character. I just love that a team of only three is behind such a unique little gem.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Stream is on ! Starting in 15 minutes: 3D Stream ! Monster Hunter Tri, motion control gaming and little surprise (modding showcase... what if I told you there's a monster in my game that isn't in vanilla Tri? 👀) twitch.tv/batatvideoga...
neutral · AI labelView post →What the actual fuck do you mean they are releasing an update to Resonance of Fate HD???? Like it seems like its mainly just graphical updates, increased FPS and a 2X speed option but like holy shit man Tri-Ace remembered that game again??? what timeline are we in?
neutral · AI labelView post →This is what an indie Game Boy-inspired shmup looks like! Bobble and the Tri-Crystal is 30% off during the Steam Autumn Sale! #SteamAutumnSale #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #shmup
neutral · AI labelView post →An interesting first-person puzzle game revolving around drawing triangles in the world which change gravity when you walk on them. Starts out strong, but unfortunately it goes on WAY too long, and the puzzles get more and more tedious and obtuse until it stops being fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cinderella Tri-Stars: Morrigan the Butterfly, Dotty the Beast, and Folt the Bravo from Fantasian. More art from the game: www.creativeuncut.com/art_fantasia...
neutral · AI labelView post →I was peacefully exploring a level when I jumped through a hole onto some green floor. As soon as I came into contact with it, the load dialogue appeared. Half an hour into level 8 is not where you should introduce the dying mechanics. I am not making those tedious climbs again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I bought TRI after adding it to my wishlist upon seeing a review which said it was highly underrated. Unfortunately, in my playing it I could not say the same. The biggest problem with this game is not the puzzles, but everything else: - The narration is unbearably dry and uninteresting (contrast this was the witty humor of Portal that keeps you going, or the philosophical musings of The Talos Principle) - The music is quite obnoxious (in my opinion) - The graphics are simple geometric colored…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't be fooled by the pretty screenshots and positive reviews, this game is TEDIOUS. Levels are comprised of uninspired rooms that require you to build your own platforms and paths to find 3 main McGuffins, that the game calls idols, to progress. There are also numerous optinal ones throughout each level too. Spotting a potential hiding place for an idol is followed by boring clicking to create a path of Tris to get you there. Portal and Q.U.B.E. get this right, you can be stumped on a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Brilliant fps puzzle game. - Unique mechanic. Tasteful design. Tranquil music. Solid lore and backstory. - Straightforward main puzzles with rising difficulty. - The collectibles are practically the hard mode, finding them takes patience and getting them all can be really challenging. (Most of them are tied to hidden achievements as well). So the player is free to choose how deeply to explore a level. - Levels vary in their concept but all of them revolve around navigating spatial objects.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The nearly 100-year-old, still active Wharton Field House in Moline, Ill., in 1949 hosted the first NBA game: Tri-City “Eventually Atlanta Hawks” Blackhawks vs Denver “Not Those” Nuggets. Not only does this deserve a marker but I’ve also made you smarter at bar trivia. www.wvik.org/wvik-top-sto...
neutral · AI labelView post →Information / Review English TRI: Of Friendship and Madness is a puzzle / adventure game developed by Rat King Entertainment. Gameplay / Story As an introduction to the game, the player has to go through a kind of course in which a ghostly figure explains the basic control elements. The character is controlled using the WASD keys, while the camera is moved either with the mouse or the arrow keys. The commands jump, crouch and run are also carried out via the keyboard. Then it goes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First off, TRI isn't for everyone, It's a puzzle platformer with very complex mechanics when compared to games like Portal. Although it has nothing to do with programming, It is similar to Zacktronics puzzle games in terms of having high complexity, masochistically hard end-game difficulty, and multiple answers for the same puzzle/problem. Some of you may not like that, but others will certainly love it! As do I! Many of the puzzles consist of learning the uses and limitations of the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A friend drew my attention to this game. At first I was a bit sceptical because of the art style but in the end I decided to give it a try since I love puzzle games. And wow, it was definitely worth it! The game just feels like a little piece of art. The music and style of art fit well together, the game has a smooth learning curve, easy enough at the beginning so that you won't become frustrated while learning the basic mechanics with increasing difficulty the farther you get. In the last…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tonight's season opener in Calgary is the first of 77 Kraken games that will be broadcast free over-the-air on KONG TV, with 18 games also simulcast on KING 5. Local affiliates will also air the games in Portland, Spokane, Boise, Yakima and the Tri-Cities, Eugene, and Alaska.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday, Legend of Zelda: Tri Force Heroes! Most underrated Zelda game imo 2015 had some stinkers in it (Mario Party 10, Animal Crossing: amiibo Festival, Chibi Robo: Zip Lash, Mario Tennis Ultra Smash), but this ain't one of them, to me at least.
positive · AI labelView post →Thanks everyone for joining and donating! We beat Zelda: Tri Force Heroes!! and then we did some challenges, which beat us! Good time all around, very underrated game with some ahead-of-its-time ideas. Monster Plush of the Week Tingle acted as our rupee financial advisor See you next time!
positive · AI labelView post →Everett takes game one in Tri-City!
neutral · AI labelView post →This game has interesting aspects, and is pretty good in many ways but also has some mechanic flaws, and most of the way to solve levels is tedious... Putting a ♥♥♥♥ ton of triangles just to climb upward in some way for instance, so at times the game can be less of a puzzle but putting a bunch of stuff down tediously. Its meh 5.6/10 I don't recommend it though as you have better options out there then this, the majority of the game is tedious...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I finally finished the game and I don't recommend it. It started well but become problematic the more I dove into the levels. The atmosphere and artistic direction of the game is great, the story can be forgotten however. The music is funny and pleasant, I often sang along it while solving puzzles. :) For the rest however, it's painful. One of the main issues are the controls which are often slow and sometimes unresponsive. Missing a jump happens quite often which is problematic for a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So I found this game a few weeks ago during a sale after seeing it on the Featured storepage. I've been on a big kick for 3D platformers, saw this and thought it'd be a fun game to play in between other stuff with longer campaigns. Now, I want to like this game. I REALLY want to like this game. I can't though. I've been trying for 2 hours and this is just impossible. The motion sickness I'm experiencing while playing is killing me. I need to go lay down before I throw up. Want a more…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TRI is a strong recommendation against. While the game is really creative and unconventional in a good way, the main game mechanics are still too janky to be fully enjoyable. Sometimes you understand exactly what you need to do, but struggles against the mechanics and the keyboard in order to be able to achieve what you want, which is one of the most frustrating things a game can do --- the challenge should be in figuring out the solution to a puzzle, not in executing it (at least not in a game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Challenging but really fun game: + challenging puzzles requiring spatial awareness + interesting art/music style - some puzzle parts require a lot of time to figure out (although they are not unfair) - graphics look a bit dated Looking forward to the sequel!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tri is a game I really liked. I don't have much to add. The game is beautiful and the whimsical atmosphere is really captivating. The puzzles are for the most part really rewarding. I had a lot of fun playing this game. There is 2 thing I didn't see that much and they can be really annoying. 1) If you have a fear of heights, this game WILL trigger your phobia. I had to stop and replay again numerous time just to calm down (But I have an acute phobia though x3) 2) Some puzzles are really,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tri-Hard ▶ WISHLIST OUR GAME HERE! 💌 store.steampowered.com/app/3976690/... Made with 🧡 by Wickford Games Project Techtonic is a Co-Op online game that where up to 4 players adventure into forgotten tombs and ancient burial grounds to discover loot.#indiegame #coopgaming #steamgames
neutral · AI labelView post →hell the guy being Ben Franklin or Boston Ghost Tours where the guides are dressed as Victorian or Tri Corner hat nonsense. But atleast they got game.
neutral · AI labelView post →TRI is a mixed bag, but a mixed bag worth your time. In terms of first-person puzzle games, there's few to none that ever meet the bar that Portal set. TRI, however, manages to occasionally reach that lofty height when it isn't getting in its own way. Divided into 15 separate chapters, TRI's quality is heavily dependent on when in the game you're currently at. You can group these chapters into a couple of distinct 'worlds' that each focus on different mechanics, and its these mechanics and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →fun fact-this game was made in 48 hours and it shows 3/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Voice acting alone was enough to put me right off this. 1/5 lol no chance!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tri is a joy to play despite an array of rough spots. Pros gameplay − The gleeful embrace of architecture and gravity as the primary game mechanics is thoroughly successful. Approaching the same rooms from different orientations is fun and exciting every time, and statue-collecting is consistently satisfying. art direction − The geometry, the material palette, and the liberal use of fog-effects all evoke Japanese watercolors without resorting to texture mapping. Nailed it. soundtrack − The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Tri is a game about triangles, and using them to manipulate the world around you with a japanese theme. Each level has three keys you need to find to finish the level. There are 16 levels. Pros: Fantastic music Quite relaxed and casual Propper options Nice controlls and feel Beautiful graphics and colours Cons: Some puzzles are unfair. Some solutions are unfair. Several ways to instantly die, which seems out of place. Infrequent autosaving. If you die, you must load a save. (This is only a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →England arrive in Pakistan ahead of their Tri-Series also involving Sri Lanka. We’ll have commentary on EVERY GAME starting on Sunday from 8.45am. 5 Sports Extra & @BBCSounds. #bbccricket
neutral · AI labelView post →okidoki let's play a game... it's called Tri-Ah-A'ngels🔺🔻it's like Tri-Angles but with Labububs and magick and rules change by every 11th' Bubu. ready?
neutral · AI labelView post →Bobble and the Tri-Crystal is 30% off as part of the Steam Autumn Sale! Lowest price ever! Get the game while you can! #SteamAutumnSale #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #shmup
neutral · AI labelView post →This game isn't for everyone. I don't think it's a bad game, so I'm a bit iffy on not recommending it, but it's a game that doesn't respect my time. As one progresses through the game, the levels become bigger and more intricate, and the amount of work one has to do becomes exponentially bigger. It's not that the game is insanely hard, it's just insanely tedious. The main mechanic of the game is to create triangles to use as platforms, or to place them on walls to be able to walk up the walls.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game annoyingly asks to you leave a review every single time you load it up. It's almost as bad as eBayers who email you 30 seconds after the end of the auction begging for positive feedback. So here you go. TRI is tedious. It has a really good premise, and it's quite pretty to look at, in a polygonal sort of way. The mechanic is an interesting one - the ability to create solid platforms on which you can stand to move yourself around the place. Unfortunately, that seems to be the only…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gonna be finishing up the original LOZ with our completed map on stream around 6 PM CST! I'll give myself about half an hour to make progress before breaking and looking up where the last 2 pieces of the Tri-Force are. We're going to be done with this game TONIGHT!! See you there! 🗡🛡
neutral · AI labelView post →The longer I play this, the less and less I want to. This is just unfun. Puzzles aren't really "puzzles", it feels more like sitting and having to do and redo triangles that are just a bit off on angle and most of the playthrough can be brute forced with them. Plus last time I've touched it before was in ancient 2018. I open the game and find myself on level with insane amount of white on top of the ceiling where one of the idols is hidden and it's such a pain to navigate in it and it's just a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to love this game - it has an excellent visual direction and wonderful soundtrack, and I am normally a fan of puzzle games - but I just couldn't get into it. I think it might have to do with a level of tedium that other reviewers comment on, but more importantly for me, I found that most of this game's puzzles were simply not fun. I never got that "wow - I see it now!" smart feeling that makes me love puzzle games like Portal or FEZ; more often than not I felt frustrated or…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →
Posts are quoted from public profiles with links to the original. Want yours removed? Contact us.