Refund
Refund is a grid puzzle game. Paid tiles hand out receipts, and refunding one does more than return your coins: it backs you into walls, blasts you across the board, rewinds time, resets the map! 50 handcrafted levels where every single coin counts.
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About the game
Refund is a single-player grid puzzle game. The rules fit in one sentence: every coin you spend can be refunded — but a refund never just returns money. Each receipt rewrites your position, your resources, or the map itself, in its own particular way.
Refund the receipt and you step backwards, against the recorded direction — and no wall can stop that step. You can back straight into a wall and stand where normal movement will never reach. That is the answer to a surprising number of these puzzles.
A refund always returns exactly half of what you paid. Every "spend now, refund later" carries a real cost — which is why every coin must be counted.
When to spend, when to refund, and in which order — that is the whole solution space of every level.
Pins: pay as you leave one and it becomes a record point; refund its receipt and you teleport straight back to it, from anywhere on the map.
Clocks are savepoints for YOU: a refund rewinds your position, coins and receipts to the moment you wound the clock. The map stays as it is.
Cameras are savepoints for the MAP: a refund rewinds the board to the snapshot, while you stay where you are. Combine both and the two timelines stay strictly independent.
Plus multiplier tiles, coin-zeroing tiles, loose coins and the lethal void — 50 levels introduce new pieces chapter by chapter, then keep recombining the old ones.
The real constraint is money. On almost every level the starting coins sit right at the optimal solution — one expense too many, and the last star quietly drifts out of reach. Solving a level means reworking your spend-and-refund order until the books balance.
Quality of life:
If you like puzzle games with few rules and deep combinations, welcome to Refund.
The core mechanic: receipts
The most basic paid tile is the footprint tile: leaving it costs coins and hands you a receipt that records the direction of that step.Refund the receipt and you step backwards, against the recorded direction — and no wall can stop that step. You can back straight into a wall and stand where normal movement will never reach. That is the answer to a surprising number of these puzzles.
A refund always returns exactly half of what you paid. Every "spend now, refund later" carries a real cost — which is why every coin must be counted.
When to spend, when to refund, and in which order — that is the whole solution space of every level.
Level titles
Every level title is hand-written by the author: hints, rambling, dinner plans, and some genuine scams. And one useless but delightful rule — the title of level N is exactly N words long (N characters in Chinese and Japanese). It holds in all 15 languages, except level 50, which is simply a thank-you.About refunding this game
Of course, you may also refund Refund itself at any time — even if all you wanted was to experience one complete refund. If this game's refund rate ever reaches 95%, I shall declare it "Overwhelmingly Positive".The systems
Fans cost coins to use and blow you across the board in a straight line — the only safe way over the void. Fans take refunds too: the same gust, blown backwards.Pins: pay as you leave one and it becomes a record point; refund its receipt and you teleport straight back to it, from anywhere on the map.
Clocks are savepoints for YOU: a refund rewinds your position, coins and receipts to the moment you wound the clock. The map stays as it is.
Cameras are savepoints for the MAP: a refund rewinds the board to the snapshot, while you stay where you are. Combine both and the two timelines stay strictly independent.
Plus multiplier tiles, coin-zeroing tiles, loose coins and the lethal void — 50 levels introduce new pieces chapter by chapter, then keep recombining the old ones.
The budget is the puzzle
Clearing a level takes exactly one thing: reach every ★.The real constraint is money. On almost every level the starting coins sit right at the optimal solution — one expense too many, and the last star quietly drifts out of reach. Solving a level means reworking your spend-and-refund order until the books balance.
Quality of life:
- Unlimited undo, redo and restart — experimenting is free;
- Every level ships with a verified official solution, replayable once you clear it;
- Stuck on a level for 20 minutes? A portal opens in the corner and lets you skip it.
Features
- 50 handcrafted single-player puzzle levels
- Refund steps that back you into walls, pin teleports, clock/camera dual savepoints, fan rides
- A verified official solution for every level
- Unlimited undo / redo
- Full controller support, with hints that switch between keyboard and gamepad automatically
- Interface and all level titles localized into 15 languages
- 11 Steam achievements + Steam Cloud saves
If you like puzzle games with few rules and deep combinations, welcome to Refund.