Get penguins home safely in Gentoo Rescue! Penguins must coordinate with walruses, who just want to escape into the water. Items let you break the rules in progressively more extreme ways. They come with drawbacks, though, so tread carefully.
Featuring
Penguins, walruses, and fish. They bring opposing win criteria, which complements the "blessing and curse" nature of the mechanics.
Rapidly expanding set of mechanics and emergent interactions.
Over 300 diverse, hand-crafted levels that are simple, instructive, but deceptively difficult.
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 for when you're truly stuck. These teach 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.
Map navigation system for quickly returning to anywhere you've been.
Old solutions are saved.
Many other QoL features and options.
Wishlist and join the discord
Join our small community and say hi! I love bouncing ideas off of players and answering questions.
It's almost 2 weeks since launch and I'm embarrassed to say that all levels still do not have hints. But I'm almost there! The only missing hints are for bonus levels, and those will be done in the next patch within the next few days.
I keep saying it, and it keeps being true. The support and enthusiasm from the puzzle community is overwhelming. I'm glad you're liking the game and spending 30+ hours of your life to playing it. Please keep telling others about the game. I want to watch more YouTube videos and Twitch streams! I also want to start playing your custom levels, so please join the Discord server to share them! I might even make it a regular thing where I stream some user submitted levels. (Eventually I'll add Steam Workshop support, but for now Discord will have to do....)
Here's the 3rd patch.
Puzzle changes
- Removed a block on the left side of the hub puzzle because it created a possible scarlet herring; i.e., a red herring that is especially attractive. As much as the penguins like herrings, I do not.
- Renamed puzzle `tmp` to `Temporary` to make it fit the naming style of the rest of the game.
- Added hints for all puzzles in Replication.
- Tweaked hints for a few other levels based on feedback. Please keep sending feedback my way!
Misc
- Keep Warp bind prompt hidden until a sublevel has been seen. This is only relevant for a single level in the very late-game.
Bugfixes
- Scroll wheel binds are given a special exception to not trigger "menu back" because of collisions with normal scrolling. However scroll wheel down could mistakenly trigger "menu back" from menus like warp, journal, pause, and settings if the end popup was visible. Now it cannot.
Minimum Setup
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Recommended Setup
- Storage: 1 GB available space
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