Induction

$6.99

Release Date:: Feb 7, 2017
Developer:: Bryan Gale
Publisher:: Bryan Gale
Platforms:: Windows Mac Linux

Indie Steam Achievements Full controller support Family Sharing Single-player Steam Cloud

About This Game

Induction is an abstract puzzle game about time travel and paradoxes. As you master its logic, Induction will rewire how you think about cause and effect.

Across more than 50 meticulously designed puzzles, you must explore the counter-intuitive possibilities time travel permits. You will learn to choreograph your actions across multiple timelines, and to construct seemingly impossible solutions, such as paradoxical time loops, where the future depends on the past and the past depends on the future.

Each puzzle is crafted to reveal a unique aspect of the game’s elegant yet exacting internal logic, gently guiding you into realising the potential of your powers. Induction does not pander, but gives you the satisfaction of mastering an imaginary yet honest set of physical laws.

Accompanying Induction’s minimalist visuals is a rich and responsive ambient soundtrack by Melbourne-based electronic composer and radio broadcaster Tim Shiel.

Praise for Induction

"A mind-bending foxtrot of timelines."
- Levi Rubeck, Kill Screen

"Induction hurt my brain. It still hurts my brain, but there is no question that the game is brilliant."
- Jacob Wood, IndieHangover

"Leads the player down the path of exploration and discovery as they are forced to communicate with the game on its terms."
- John Lindvay, BigSushi

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User Reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

1 user reviews

100%

Positive

User #642935 english

18 hrs at review

Recommended

One of the puzzle greats. I'm talking Stephen's Sausage Roll, Snakebird, Baba Is You, Magicube, etc. You liked those games? You'll love this. Of all of those puzzle games, I think Induction takes the cake for being the hardest to make sense of what you're doing, at least while mechanics are still being introduced and haven't had time to settle. It's like that scene from Tenet: don't try to think too hard about it, just [i]feel[/i] it. Indeed, by the end of the game you'll have developed a sort of second-nature to how go about solving these time conundrums. When the developer said it will rewire how you think about cause and effect - they weren't joking. Pair that with the fact that mechanics are rarely tutorialized beyond dropping you in a room and giving you a button prompt, part of the puzzle of Induction often becomes figuring out what [i]exactly[/i] it is that that new mechanic you just learned a few levels ago [i]actually does at a conceptual level[/i] so you can exploit it to i...