
A crash landing on a world inhabited by bee-like lifeforms. Stranded, our hero must unravel the rules of this uncharted planet to find their way home. Navigate a world where left is right, up is down, and you don't know where the simulation ends and you begin.
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A crash landing on a world inhabited by bee-like lifeforms. Stranded, our hero must unravel the rules of this uncharted planet to find their way home. Navigate a world where left is right, up is down, and you don't know where the simulation ends and you begin.

Recursion Deluxe features puzzle platforming inspired by many of the great classics of the past, with carefully designed levels intended to provide an enjoyable difficulty curve. Meticulously-crafted pixel art creates a throwback to classic 16-bit aesthetics.
From its humble beginnings as 'Recursion', a Flash game released in 2012, Recursion Deluxe has been rebuilt from the ground up in a new engine. This deluxe version features new puzzle mechanics, additional biomes, remastered original content, twice as many levels, new music and more!
Classic Platforming - Overcome puzzles and challenging obstacles!
Choose Your Hero - Choose between the two starting heroes and unlock more as you progress.
Loads of Levels - Over 65 levels spanning 4 unique worlds offers hours of platforming fun!
Full Controller Support - Playable in Big Picture mode.
Pixel-Perfect Rendering - No rotating pixels or sub-pixel movements here!
Speed Running Love - Deterministic gameplay and ability to track the number of frames elapsed.
Heavily Moddable - All levels, graphics and sound files are exposed and editable. Make cool stuff!
Steam Integration - Achievements, Cloud Saves and Trading Cards!

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Languages: English
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I really enjoy this game. Even though it can be maddening at times.
BEEEEEEEES!!!!!!!
Средненькая игра. Переодически сильно тормозит, сильная утечка памяти, крайне сложно выйти из игры. Не помогает даже диспетчер задачь, приходиться выключать стим и только тогда она закрывается. Покупать с такими косяками не рекомендую, да и без них только по скидке.
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Very nice game
よくある一画面式プラットフォーム。 上下左右がループしているという特徴はあるが,いまいち機能してる感は無い。 この手のゲームにしては簡単な方で,良く云えば取っ付き易く,悪く云えば歯応えが無い。 難易度遷移も適当で,序盤にシビアな面もあれば終盤に肩透かしを喰らう面もある。 更には唐突に全くコンセプトの違う面が始まり, 今まで一度も学んでいない操作を要求される鬱陶しさまで用意してくれている。 おすすめ。
EDIT 10/19/25: Well, I promised I would change this to positive when the bug was fixed, and Lo And Behold, the madlads actually did it. Took ya long enough, but props for actually coming back and putting the effort in. The game seems functional now. My standards are a little higher these days and I probably wouldn't have bothered with a positive review for this if I had first played it yesterday, but I do still think it's worth a shot if you're nostalgic for old web-hosted puzzleplats. ORIGINAL REVIEW: A passable little puzzle-platformer based around gravity inversion and screen-edge-looping. Nothing really new here, but has functional puzzles and nice pixel art. Seems like it might be more at home as a browser game, but at least it's actually a complete, cohesive product that you can have fun with, which is more than can be said for a lot of the garbage clogging up steam lately. Probably worth a couple bucks or a bundle buy... if not for a recurring memory leak problem that makes the game basically unplayable after a session of maybe 40 minutes. Others complain about this in the forums but the dev has not fixed it and does not appear interested in doing so. I have not finished the game yet because I am tired of force-closing the program when my PC starts to chug. I will change my rating if and when this is fixed, but for now I can't recommend it.
Tags: Platformer Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library TLDR: Generic. One-screen puzzles with keys, blocks, and a flag objective. Controls okay but levels are cramped and get a tad frustrating. The 8bit tires the eyes. As you would expect with games of this type the difficulty gradually ramps up, I got through two worlds out of four and in the end I just ended up doing the same thing over and over again. You have to train yourself to map out the correct path by swapping gravity, going from the left of screen and reappearing on the right, and the bottom linking with the top of the screen. Platformer enthusiasts might get the full two to three hours of enjoyment out of it and get a few extra levels through workshop. It is a fairly honest amount of content for a low cost however I found I did not really belong in the niche of gamers who would really enjoy it. There is no story or whatever else to really keep you engaged either. Some forum users report a memory leak issue that causes the game to go sluggish when played for long periods at once. There is no real combat in the game since you insta-die on contact with spikes, bees, zombies and as such they are just all variations on an instant-fail state. There are no lives either and there are infinite retries so that is fairly casual and nice. Xbox 360 pad was detected correctly and the control scheme made sense and was simple. The jumping arcs and control on where you are and where you land especially when crossing screen borders can be a bit tricky but nothing too unfair most times. Since there is not much to set this game apart and due to the overall low audiovisual ambitions of the title it lands a bit underpar compared to the ocean of competing titles available on Steam in the same genre so I find myself inclined to archive it permanently in hidden library for declutter.
謎解きアクションパズルゲームです。 2Dアクションパズルが好きな人、タヒゲーが好きな人にはオススメできます。 ・難易度 個人的には簡単とは言い難いと感じた。 どの順番でギミックを起動すればいいのか、このタイミングで先に進めば良いのか、 そういう事を考えるのが好きな人や、度重なるやり直しが苦ではない人には向いていると思います。 ・操作感 心地よいほどに良いです。
I had a blast paying this game. At the same time it caused me so much undue stress. This game was HARD! But at the same time I found it super rewarding to play. The music is 10/10, The graphics are cute, and the puzzles are fantastic. Great game, I hope there's a sequel some day. 8.5/10
good game
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