Gentoo Rescue
Release date: May 22, 2025
Developers: Jagriff
Publishers: Jagriff
Genres: Casual, Indie, Strategy
Categories: Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Workshop, Camera Comfort, Color Alternatives, Custom Volume Controls, Keyboard Only Option, Mouse Only Option, Playable without Timed Input, Save Anytime, Partial Controller Support, Steam Cloud, Includes level editor, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English

Slide animals to save baby penguins and escape with walruses. Change the rules with simple items like a hammer, a spring, or a magnet. Discover emergent uses of these tools, and how they interact with other mechanics. Explore an open world of nested puzzles by gaining new capabilities and knowledge. Puzzles are designed to showcase with a 'simple, but difficult' philosophy, with each puzzle bringing a new idea. They're carefully designed to be instructive, tight, and deducible. Featuring Penguins, walruses, and fish! Each introduces opposing win criteria. Rapidly expanding set of mechanics and interactions. Over 300 diverse, hand-crafted levels. No filler! An interconnected network of puzzles with item-based progression and metagame twists. Journal for tracking mechanics, which also lists entries needed for the current puzzle. A tiered hint system that teaches a deduction-based approach. 16 biomes distinguishing areas and mechanics, with original music. Puzzle editor with Steam Workshop support for sharing custom levelpacks. Accessibility No time-sensitive inputs, with undo and redo binds that work through resets. Use a controller, keyboard, or mouse with customizable binds. (Note: Puzzle editor requires a mouse.) Colorblind friendly with customizable colors. Most puzzles are optional for progression, and a setting makes any puzzle skippable. Warp navigation system for quickly returning to anywhere you've been. Solutions, [redacted], and [redacted] are saved, so meta goals don't require any repeat work. 

Press reviews: “Yeah, it's confirmed. This game is f*****g sick.” Aliensrock “Every mechanic is taught to you through very clever but approachable puzzles, and then you’re dropped into the meta madness where your ingenuity and understanding of the game are put to their limits. [...] Gentoo Rescue is a gem. And I truly mean it, I can’t even find a single little flaw.” Thinky Games