Bringing an interesting narrative can be a hit-or-miss aspect for a puzzle game, but the art style is a focal aspect for games in the genre. Developers Bit Rot have gone with a color mash in a kaleidoscope style for their soon-to-release title Recursive Ruin. Soon players will get to explore this game’s secrets as their publisher Iceberg Interactive releases it on PC via Steam, GOG, and Epic Games on May 18th.
Players are invited into an infinitely recursive landscape aptly named the Infinite Worlds. Caught in a mix of existential crisis and environmental puzzles, players have to find their way by bending the world to their advantage. The Infinite Realms are filled with strange, snarky denizens, hidden spaces, and mind-bending physics. Players have a unique ability allowing you to shift the eternally repeating world inward or outward to their advantage as if they were playing with a kaleidoscope toy. Open up barred paths, overcome plunging depths, and trick motion sensors.
Recursive Ruin aims to deliver a story that takes a deep dive into player’s psyche to deal with past trauma, grief, and a creative crisis. There is a free demo on Steam if you want to give the game a try before committing to adding it to your library later this week.
