ECHOES is a 3D puzzle-platformer about teaming up with yourself.
Every level is a puzzle too big for one person. A door needs someone standing on its button, a key has to be thrown over a wall, a laser has to be bent around a corner while somebody walks through the door it opens. So you play the level once, press T to skip back in time, and the run you just made keeps playing as a past self, an echo, doing exactly what you did, second for second. Then you play again alongside it. Stack up several of yourself and the level that needed a team has one.
How it plays
- Record, skip, repeat. Each run is recorded. Skip back and it replays as an echo while you make the next run. When every echo is in place and you reach the exit, the level is solved.
- Echoes are solid and real. They hold down buttons, block beams, carry and throw items, ride platforms and can be stood on.
Whatever you can do, an echo can do on replay
50 hand-built levels, from a short tutorial up to rooms that need several echoes landing in exactly the right places at exactly the right moment. Each level introduces a new tool or combines ones you already know, and every one has an optional collectable in it, usually the hardest part of the room.
- Reach the exit of every level.
- Find the collectable in each one for challange.
- Beat your best time and see where you rank on the online leaderboard for every level.
- Watch your whole solution play back at the end, every echo at once.
Level Editor
Build your own levels and let others players play them.
Look and sound
Clean geometric rooms floating in a deep-space void, with slow-turning planets in the distance and a small, bouncy astronaut. Every echo has its own colour, so you can always tell your past selves apart. A synthesised soundtrack shifts between calm menu music and focused puzzle themes.
Features
- 50 hand-built puzzle levels about cooperating with recordings of yourself
- A full Level Editor with online sharing, ratings and comments
- Online leaderboards for every level
- Keyboard and mouse or controller, with rebindable keys
- An in-game help book explaining every mechanic, with pictures
