A puzzle metroidvania about sliding penguins and walruses. Pick up items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Uncover surprising twists hidden in a world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles.
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Planned Release Date: April 2025

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Demo 0.5.2, with Linux support!

This demo contains 20 puzzles, which showcases the basics, one item, and some teasers. It will take roughly:

  • 20-60 minutes to reach the end screen

  • 30-90 minutes to complete all puzzles

Please reach out if you have any issues, especially any accessibility or QoL concerns. Also, join the discord and say hello!

About This Game

Slide animals to save baby penguins and escape with walruses. Change the rules with simple items like a hammer, a spring, or a magnet. Discover emergent uses of these tools, and how they interact with other mechanics. Explore an open world of nested puzzles by gaining new capabilities and knowledge.

Puzzles are designed to showcase with a "simple, but difficult" philosophy, with each puzzle bringing a new idea. They're carefully designed to be instructive, tight, and deducible.

Featuring

  • Penguins, walruses, and fish! Each introduce opposing win criteria.

  • Rapidly expanding set of mechanics and interactions.

  • Over 300 diverse, hand-crafted levels. No filler!

  • An interconnected network of puzzles with item-based progression and metagame twists.

  • Journal for tracking mechanics, which also lists entries needed for the current puzzle.

  • A tiered hint system that teaches a deduction-based approach.

  • 16 biomes distinguishing areas and mechanics.

  • Original music.

Accessibility

  • No time-sensitive inputs, with undo and redo binds that work through resets.

  • Use controller, keyboard, or mouse with customizable binds. (Note: Puzzle editor requires a mouse.)

  • Colorblind friendly with customizable colors.

  • Most puzzles are optional for progression, and a setting makes any puzzle skippable.

  • Warp navigation system for quickly returning to anywhere you've been.

  • Your old solutions and [redacted] and [redacted] are saved, so you don't have to repeat work to accomplish any meta goals.

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Join our small community and say hi! I love bouncing ideas off of players and answering questions.

System Requirements

Windows
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • Processor: Intel Core i5-7400, AMD Ryzen 5 1400, or equivalent
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics 630, Radeon 530, or equivalent
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Consistent 60 FPS on all low @ 1080p. This is GPU bounded so you might be able to get away with lower specs as long as your GPU meets these. Please reach out if you have issues!
    Minimum:
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
    Recommended:
    • Storage: 1 GB available space
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