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Recursive Ruin

78% positive of 284 Steam reviews

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Released
2022
Steam Deck
Playable
Platforms
Steam, GOG, Epic

Made by Bit Rot. Published by Iceberg Interactive.

About the game

A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.

Tagged by players

  • Puzzle Platformer
  • Experimental
  • Philosophical
  • Abstract
  • Surreal
  • Cats
  • Puzzle
  • Emotional
  • Exploration
  • Action-Adventure
  • First-Person
  • Linear

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What players say

  • Recommended
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    1.9 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    I brought this thinking I would have lovely puzzles, and I did... for about half the game anyway. The rest was an uninteresting walking simulator that wanted to be so mysterious it becomes impossible to follow. It doesn't help that the game is split into interwoven puzzle stages, one-room exposition-dump stages, and horror-wannabe walking simulator narration stages. This results in a gigantic pacing problem. People…

    6 h played when written. 18 found it helpful.

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