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Gentoo Rescue

Jagriff

A puzzler 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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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 introduces 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, with original music.

  • Puzzle editor with Steam Workshop support for sharing custom levelpacks.

Accessibility

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

  • Use a 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.

  • Solutions, [redacted], and [redacted] are saved, so meta goals don't require any repeat work.

Community Activity

  1. Gentoo RescueSteam patch notes
  2. Gentoo RescueSteam patch notes

    1.2.2 - Small UI fixes

    It's been great seeing old players return to the game for some more penguin puzzling. Thanks to everyone that has shown support for the 1.2 Anniversary Update and our appearance…

  3. Gentoo RescueSteam patch notes
  4. Gentoo RescueSteam announcement

    1.2 - Anniversary Update

    The second major update is here! Here's the exclusive trailer for the Thinky Direct in case you missed it. Before anything else, I have a note for returning players. There's one…

  5. Gentoo RescueSteam announcement

    Happy 1-year Anniversary!

    A year ago my goal for Gentoo Rescue was 100 reviews and 1k units sold. Thanks to your word of mouth, we're sitting well over both of these thresholds. So while the penguins blow…

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