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Surface Tension: Eclipse

Move lights. Walk on shadows. Surface Tension: Eclipse is a surreal 2D puzzlevania where cast shadows become solid platforms, every room is a spatial riddle, and the darkness hides more than it reveals.

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Redo Games
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Redo Games
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About the Game

Surface Tension: Eclipse is an atmospheric 2D puzzlevania about light, shadow, and survival inside a strange, dreamlike world.

You wake in a place built from contrast: glowing lamps, deep black spaces, broken signals, and architecture that feels almost alive. Darkness is not empty here. It has weight. It has shape. Cast a shadow across the room, and it becomes something you can stand on. Move the light, and the path moves with it.

Explore an interconnected pixel-art world where every room asks you to read space differently. Study the angle of a lamp, the shape of nearby objects, and the way shadows stretch across the walls and floors. A gap may become a bridge. A barrier may become a path. The solution is rarely what it first appears to be.

As you descend deeper, the rules begin to shift.

Key Features

  • Solid Shadows: Carry, swing, and reposition light sources to cast physical platforms out of darkness.

  • Handcrafted Puzzle Rooms: Solve spatial challenges built around geometry, timing, and experimentation.

  • Interconnected Exploration: Return to earlier areas with new knowledge and uncover hidden routes.

  • Surreal Digital Atmosphere: Explore a stark retro world of heavy dithering, deep hues, and strange system-like anomalies.

  • Mystery Beneath the Darkness

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