Gentoo Rescue Demo is part of the Box-Pushing Festival, running April 21-28 at 10 AM PT!
Gentoo Rescue is not a traditional sokoban game. The player controls multiple animals that move independently, and the "boxes" are the animals themselves. The animals move by sliding, and they can pick up items to gain new abilities - some of which allow for pushing, pulling, and other ways to manipulate other animals.
The game plays like traditional sokoban games with:
- Grid-based movement.
- Discrete state-space.
- Puzzles that can be deduced by working backwards from the "solve" state.
Of course there non-sokoban influences as well, such as:
- Many emergent mechanics for a rule-discovery focus.
- Open-world of nested puzzles.
- Meta elements, including recursion, redacted, and redacted.
If this sounds interesting, be sure to leave a wishlist, try the demo, and join the Discord server. I'm eager to get any and all feedback I can while extra eyes are on the game during the event, so don't hesitate to reach out.
You can also follow my personal account on BlueSky and my Gentoo Rescue account on Twitter/X.