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Recursive Ruin

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App ID 1561890
App Type Game
Developer
Publisher Iceberg Interactive
Franchise Iceberg Interactive
Supported Systems Windows
Technologies Unreal Engine
Last Changenumber 29039781
Last Record Update 17 May 2025 – 12:12:51 UTC ()
Release Date 18 May 2022 – 13:02:34 UTC ()
❓ 75.09%
280 reviews
1
In-Game

A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.

Additional Information

Developer Bit Rot
community_visible_stats Yes
ReleaseState released
Publisher Iceberg Interactive
Store Release Date 18 May 2022 – 13:02:47 UTC ()
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community_hub_visible Yes
Social Media https://discord.com/invite/iceberginteractive
Primary Genre Action (1)
Store Genres Action (1), Adventure (25), Casual (4), Indie (23)
Steam Release Date 18 May 2022 – 13:02:34 UTC ()
Store Asset Modification Time 18 May 2022 – 12:52:21 UTC () (1652878341)
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Detected Technologies (?) Unreal Engine, NVIDIA_APEX SDK, NVIDIA_Nsight_Aftermath SDK, NVIDIA_PhysX SDK, NvCloth SDK, Ogg SDK, Vorbis SDK
First seen on SteamDB 23 February 2021 – 12:44:30 UTC (), in changelist #10807481

Supported Languages

7 Languages Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English Yes
French Yes
Italian Yes
German Yes
Spanish - Spain Yes
Russian Yes
Simplified Chinese Yes

Tags

🧩 Puzzle Platformer 🧩 Puzzle 🗺 Exploration 🗺️ Adventure 💥 Action 🙌 First-Person 🫠 Surreal 🌄 Action-Adventure 🤯 Abstract 👤 Singleplayer 🧊 3D 📚 Story Rich 🧙‍♂ Philosophical 🌫 Atmospheric ⚗️ Experimental 💔 Emotional 📏 Linear 🐱 Cats 🚀 Sci-fi 🤫 Mystery

Categories

Single-player Steam Achievements Steam Trading Cards Family Sharing

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User File System

Key Value
quota 976.56 KiB (1000000)
maxnumfiles 10
ignoreexternalfiles 1
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Save File Locations

Based on the configuration above, this is where we think the save files are located.

Read more about cloud saves in Steamworks documentation.

Platform Path Pattern
[All OSes] [Steam Library]/steamapps/common/Recursive Ruin/bitrot/Saved/SaveGames/ *.sav
Windows (Override) %USERPROFILE%/AppData/Local/bitrot/Saved/SaveGames/
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