# The Cubedex of Brass and Wood

Summer DB entity ID: 0ecf5ea3\-deef\-4c8e\-898e\-8288690a9757

Steam App ID: 1300180

The Cubedex of Brass and Wood  is a puzzle game concerning mysterious electromechanical devices linked by the Cubedex itself\. Like puzzle hunts and escape rooms, sometimes the goal is obvious but the solution is challenging; and sometimes figuring out the goal is itself part of the puzzle\.  More puzzles: additional variations of the  Balance ,  Cart , and  Machine  puzzles are included \(click the star in the upper left\!\) to further stretch your brain\. The Devices  The  Balance  has nine pans and eight weights:      The  Cart  is a Bakelite robot programmed with plug\-in tubes:      The  Machine  has seven tubes and seven buttons:      The  Maze  is a light puzzle\. I could write another mysterious description, but you know what a light puzzle is\. There's always a light puzzle in these things\. It's like catnip for puzzle designers\.      The  Clock  doesn't seem to tell time:      The  Cubedex  has six faces, but none are quite where you expect them to be, and one holds a secret locked away:     The Series  Jim McCann / TCHOW llc developed the Cube\* puzzle games to continue his tradition of creating midwinter puzzle hunts for his brother\. The Steam releases are the first time these tiny and frustrating puzzling worlds have been available to a large audience, and contain significant enhancements relative to their original \(single\-member\-audience\) releases\.   The Cubedex of Brass and Wood  is the first game in the main series of Cube\* puzzle games\. It was created as a midwinter gift in 2015 and updated and polished for Steam in 2020\. The Standard Notes  Nothing in these store pages, the game web page, the game documentation, or other materials outside the game is a puzzle\.   The Cubedex of Brass and Wood  is intended to be solved without decompilation, resource snooping, or modification of game files\. Indeed, these are all considered cheating\. \(And, really, who are you cheating but yourself? Once you know the answer, you can never discover it fairly\.\)  You will, however, benefit greatly from scrap paper, a good reference for standard encoding schemes, and \-\- potentially, though it is not required \-\- the ability to write some small computer programs to search for solutions to combinatorial problems\.

## Game information

- Type: game

- Developer: TCHOW

- Publisher: TCHOW

- Release date: Aug 31, 2020

- Coming soon: false

- Free to play: false

- Parent Steam app: Not collected

- Genres: Indie

- Categories: Single\-player, Steam Achievements, Family Sharing

- Platforms: windows, mac, linux

- Website: Not collected

- Screenshots: https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1300180/ss\_05e20f2ec71056a17e78750eedcbed12370767ad\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1598932909, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1300180/ss\_cfe6a5a8f3e7205fd585280b9d4be986d134c218\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1598932909, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1300180/ss\_25b1d766415f58c0160c7e86b479b9c5f299176e\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1598932909, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1300180/ss\_41637430af58eec56921c525806e169ea5cab3af\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1598932909, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1300180/ss\_470e4b1adb7e66ecdd7edc93af1181c9fb85e88a\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1598932909, https://shared\.akamai\.steamstatic\.com/store\_item\_assets/steam/apps/1300180/ss\_fd97efe4074c1182b269f6e1d2736c00e58a0656\.1920x1080\.jpg?t=1598932909

- Price: 499 minor units USD; discount 0%

- Price country: US

## Observed metrics

- Current players: 0

- Steam review count: 5

- Steam positive reviews: 4

- Steam negative reviews: 1

- Steam positive percentage: 80%

- Summer DB rating: No native votes

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## Player history

[Seven-day chart data as Markdown](/api/v1/entities/0ecf5ea3-deef-4c8e-898e-8288690a9757/player-metrics?days=7&format=markdown) · [JSON](/api/v1/entities/0ecf5ea3-deef-4c8e-898e-8288690a9757/player-metrics?days=7)

Chart values are hourly observed maxima. The sampled 24-hour peak and missing intervals carry explicit coverage; history before collection is unknown.

## Sources and freshness

- Catalog membership: store\_catalog

- Catalog observed: 2026\-09\-24T19:57:04\.362365\+00:00

- Details observed: 2026\-09\-24T23:12:47\.947683\+00:00

- Player count observed: 2026\-09\-24T23:12:50\.398861\+00:00

- Reviews observed: 2026\-09\-24T23:12:50\.146804\+00:00

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Steam reviews are not Summer DB votes. Missing data is not zero. Player counts are observations, not historical peaks. A supplemental record does not establish that a game was delisted.

[Steam store](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1300180/) · [JSON](/api/v1/games/0ecf5ea3-deef-4c8e-898e-8288690a9757)