Recursive Ruin to befall PCs in 2022
An artist’s life is one of extremes. The desire to create can be all-consuming, even when inspiration has faded. In Bit Rot’s upcoming Recursive Ruin, players will have the chance to experience the plight of a despondent artist first-hand, exploring a surreal vaporwave nightmare in search of meaning.
Players control a former artist filled with regret for a past mistake that had a devastating impact on a relationsip with someone he held dear, leaving him feeling lost and without purpose. Seeking not just atonement but perhaps even a way to reverse the damage he has wrought, he must navigate a series of fractal environments drenched in neon light. As he explores surreal complexes floating amidst vast oceans and vacuous skies, the vantage point and focus scale abruptly, toying with the perspective in a playfully jarring way, creating a variety of puzzling obstacles that must be overcome along the way.
A free-roaming first-person adventure, Recursive Ruin is described as a “kaleidoscopic narrative-puzzle game" set in a world of “strange beauty and mind-bending physics that repeats eternally inward and outward.” Seven unique locations “filled with hidden spaces and strange denizens” and “self-reverential puzzles” will challenge you through use of recursive physics and circular logic. As you progress, you’ll obtain more unique abilities to help shape the environments around you, fighting back against a malevolent substance called Ichor that is "eating away at the fabric of reality."
Created by the twin brother team of Curtis and Chad McKinney, whose combined experience includes working on games such as The Elder Scrolls Online and Star Citizen before forming their own indie studio, Recursive Ruin is due out on Steam for Windows PC sometime in 2022.
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