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Recursive Ruin

Recursive Ruin is a kaleidoscopic narrative-puzzle game. Explore an infinitely fractal world of strange beauty and mind-bending physics. Inhabit a despondent artist in search of meaning and experience a…

18 May 2022

Recursive Ruin is an adventure, released 18 May 2022 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Recursive Ruin is

Recursive Ruin was released in 2022. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unreal Engine 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Recursive Ruin is a kaleidoscopic narrative-puzzle game. Explore an infinitely fractal world of strange beauty and mind-bending physics. Inhabit a despondent artist in search of meaning and experience a bittersweet story that cascades into the surreal.
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How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Recursive Ruin launched on 18 May 2022, within three weeks of The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, Rogue Legacy 2 and Citizen Sleeper.

Released around the same time: The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe, Rogue Legacy 2, Citizen Sleeper.

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When did Recursive Ruin come out?
Recursive Ruin was released on 18 May 2022 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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