Recursive!

A puzzle game about recursion, patterns, and programming. It is the perfect game for people who love hard puzzles.

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Patterns and recursion

Your goal is to help little robots complete their mission and collect all gems by finding the correct pattern and translating it into a short program.

Minimalistic programming language

The programming language is minimalistic and easy to learn. It doesn't require any prior programming knowledge and consists of only four instructions.

Move forward: Move one cell forward.
Rotate left: Rotate 90° left in place.
Rotate right: Rotate 90° right in place.
Change color: Load a chip of a specified color and execute the instructions it contains.

70 easy to really really hard levels

Recursive offers a large variety of levels thanks to supporting multiple types of elements.

Robots: They can have different colors that reflect the chip they have loaded.
Gems: Your goal is to collect all of them.
Bugs: They destroy robots and make them disappear.
Chips: They make robots load a different program.
Teleportation gates: They make robots teleport to a different location.
Inactive robots: They are activated when touched by another robot.

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