Installs and works on Win 10 64-bit, despite the description. You just have to right-click ThePerfectUnit.exe and select "Run as Administrator". The "How to" isn't that hard to figure out. Just don't place any nut directly above the robot-ball, since it will just land on top of it. You have to place it slightly to the right or left above it and drop it to make it roll in the other direction. Sometimes, when your robot-ball is next to a wall, you have to place the nut in the wall, which, uhm, is against the laws of physics. An interesting feature in a physics-based game :-). The graphics is quite good, even in full screen mode. For me a keeper.

This game does not have adequate instructions - and indeed it even says - you have to figure things out and what they do for yourself. That's not so much fun as it is frustrating.

I couldn't get past level 4 of this game. I didn't know what to do and nothing I tried worked out for me. I decided life's too short and gave up. (I could see that there was a balloon - but I couldn't pick up the balloon by clicking on it and couldn't figure out what "magic" action I'd need to perform to use it.)

To pass levels 1 - 3 what you have to do is pick up the blue nut and drop it from as high as you can to land on the ball but slightly behind it so that it will start rolling - and keep doing that until it reaches the door - you get something that you can place in front of the rolling blue ball to speed it up / or to make it go up.

I'm not sure what I'm missing here. It's Friday, 22nd February 2019 and it's informing me that the offer has expired as "The Perfect Unit was available as a giveaway on February 22, 2019!"

Same thing here. The last 3 games have had problems. At least there is no Game.exe from falcon games with Russian ads!

File is corrupted, cannot install the game at all

The Perfect Unit

In Brief

A physics based puzzle game where your robot explores various rooms in a mansion.

Installation:

The Perfect Unit downloads to a 50.5 MB zip file that unzips to two files, (a setup executable and a read me). The game installs to the following path by default, but can be changed if you wish. The installed game is approximately 71.6 MB in size.

C:\Program Files (x86)\The Perfect Unit

Five shortcuts are installed to the desktop, four of which can be safely deleted . If you want the games shortcut to be installed to the desktop, make sure the appropriate checkbox is checked. Even if this is left unchecked you will still get the four internet shortcuts installed to the desktop; (i.e. Falco Space - Online Game!, FalconLine Online Games Website, FalcoGo WebGL Games! and Free Games Downloads!). Also, if you don't like icons installed to the quick launch task bar, make sure the appropriate checkbox is unchecked when the 'additional task's window appears (after the Select Start Menu Folder window).

Introduction:

Reference accessed HERE. 2019

The Perfect Unit is a puzzle. On each level you need to arrange items around the room in the correct order to bring the robot to the exit. Each object has a different effect on the robot: toss it, accelerate it, etc. The number of items is limited.

In the role of a small robot you find yourself a participant in a certain experiment. In a huge mansion specifically for you prepared several rooms with traps which you must avoid. There are also two other people in the house: the professor who created you and his maid who manages this mansion. As the game progresses more details are revealed about goals of your creation and plans for your. Who do you believe? Your choice will depend on one of two possible outcomes to this intricate story.

Reference accessed HERE. Originally posted by Steam, Edited and reposted by Whiterabbit-uk 22nd February 2019

The Game:

On starting the game you can select either English or Russian/русский languages to play. Clicking the Play button from the main menu takes you to an odd looking level selection screen that has lots of images of the professor in varying sizes. with one labelled 1. These are the various levels available in game. On starting the Perfect Unit you are presented with a story bord that explains that you, the robot have no motion module installed; so to get you moving the professor has to push you around by throwing nuts at you.

Picking up nuts is easy, just move your mouse cursor over the nut, (which you'll find in your inventory, that is located below the room) and click the left mouse button. You start the game with four nuts. If you need to deselect a picked up item just press the right mouse button. to move the robot place the selected nut above the robot and press the left mouse button again to drop the nut. This is a physics based game, so to move the robot in the direction you need it to go, drop the nuts slightly to the left or right above the robot for it to move left or right. Once dropped, these cannot be reused. When, you arrive at the door to exit your first room, it transports you to the next room, where the professor awards you with a rotation accelerator. This enables the robot to move faster temporarily. These are quite rare, so you will be advised by the professor to use them wisely. You will also receive other helpful items, and are expected to discover for yourself where, how and why you are given them, (HINT: check the inventory), for example an item that allows you to jump . On the left hand side of the inventory is a back button that allows you to restart the level and on the right is another button that takes you to the level selection screen.

You will also be introduced to another occupant of the house, the maid. She will occasionally offer information and advise, for example on first encountering her, you will be told to avoid previous robots that don't function properly and who have smashed up the house. she will also give you another item. I won't tell you what that or any others are as I don't want to give too many spoilers away; s,o discover other items yourself. Suffice it to say that items you pick up are useful in helping you to pass through all of the rooms in the house, avoiding any traps.

Whiterabbit-uk 22nd February 2019

Conclusion:

A pleasant physics based game where you have to explore a house avoiding traps and figuring out how to get to the exit of each room. A lot of the puzzles rely more on timing than skill; however, I love physics based games and although this isn't one of the better ones, it is still very playable and worth downloading today. The voice acting is okay, though some of the words are a little distorted due to the Russian accents of the voice actors. All speech is accompanied by a panel with the words in writing. The background music sort of reminded me of an Adamms family movie. :)

Videos of The Perfect Unit:

You can see a video of game play HERE.

Suggestions:

After you've had an opportunity to play today's giveaway please take a few moments to give some positive or negative feedback; for example, what you liked or disliked about the game, or how it could be improved. If you don't like the genre at all, please explain why and if any, what improvements would change your mind? If you don't have time to post a comment today, please do so at your convenience, thank you. If you wish to post a review or comment about the game later, you can access the comments section by going to the game giveaways home page, then scroll to the bottom of the page where it says Archives and select the date the giveaway was live (giveaway days are in bold type). This will open the appropriate page for you to post your comment or review. Alternatively, you can google the name of the game and include Gamegiveawayoftheday in the search. This should give you a list of links to whenever this game was given away.

If you miss today's game giveaway you can always get the game via Steam 24/7 for £0.79/$0.99/€0.79 HERE.

Problems getting the game to work:

If you're having problems installing or activating or getting The Perfect Unit to work please visit the FAQ's Thread HERE and read through the communities comments because sometimes fixes have already been posted, for example, a common issue seen since the Themida wrapper was introduced three years ago is that some community members installation of the game are blocked by their security because Themida code has been known to hide malware, (usually an error message is flagged for example 'The executable is corrupted' even though in reality it is not); so as a precaution some anti malware programs will block and even delete the suspect installation files even though the files (i.e. the setup, read me and setup.gcd files are actually totally free from malware. This issue can be solved either by rebooting your computer in safe mode with networking or a quicker method is to temporarily turn off your security software to allow the installation. You could also try white-listing the setup.gcd file. In the almost 12 years this game giveaway site has been operating there has 'never' been a game given away that was infected with malware.

If for any reason you want to contact the giveaway team, for example, you have a game to offer the community, or are unable to download the latest game or other issues that the FAQ's thread or these comments don't cover or solve you can do so HERE

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank the developer Russian Pixel Games and the distributor Falcoware Games for giving away 'The Perfect Unit' and also to the game giveaway team, as always, for securing other ways to get free games.

Useful Information not related to today's game giveaway:

If The Perfect Unit doesn't interest you, but you still hanker for something new to play, you'll find details of some game deals whether they be sale items, indie bundles or games being given away for free HERE (I've not updated the thread in a while, but most of the links still take you to the latest deals).

The rest of the information that used to be posted in the game review can be found in the forums HERE. Finally, check out Delenns threads for details of other free games and offers HERE and elsewhere in the game discussion forums HERE, (usually on the first page of the game discussion forums). The free game over at epic games is Thimbleweed Park until March 7th. worth £14.99/$19.99/€19.99. You can also get the non Steam single player version of Welcome to Princeland for free temporarily via Indie Gala (you'll need a free account to claim the game) HERE; the SP/MP version is usually worth £3.99/$4.99/€3.99 and can be found on Steam HERE. Finally, there are some excellent bargains on sale via Steam HERE (over 2200); for example if like me you love breakout games, one I've been playing recently called Ionball 2: Ionstorm is on sale until 25th February 6pm (UST) for only £041/$49/€0.39