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Epicycles

Move objects to their goals using cycles linked into intricate clockwork. Take a stab at dozens of official puzzles spanning many difficulty levels from simple ones all the way to mathematical challenges.

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Developer
Lidajatus Corporation
Publisher
Lidajatus Corporation
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About the Game

Epicycles is an abstract minimalist puzzle game about permutations.
Rotate cycles to move objects into their correct places.

Interact with intricate mechanisms emerging from elementary puzzle elements.

Featuring:

  • Players and Boxes - two kinds of objects with distinct properties

  • Links - cycles joined together into more complex machinery

  • Detectors - cycles move objects, but objects can move cycles

  • Tutorial levels teaching all necessary interactions by play rather than by text

  • A wide range of levels to choose from - find your own preferred flavour

  • Short and sweet puzzles

  • Variations on classic brain teasers

  • Tricky resource management

  • Mathematical riddles from number theory or group theory

  • Flexible level format for creating custom levels

Accessibility

  • Gameplay elements all fully recognizable even in grayscale

  • Customisable colours

  • Graphics settings to accommodate things like reduced motion

  • All inputs are timing-independent

  • Playable mouse-only

  • Undo system

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