Press kit
Everything you need to write about Recursive. Use any of it freely. For anything else, including review copies, write to hello@kidori.com.
Facts
| Developer | Kidori |
|---|---|
| Platforms | iPhone, iPad and Mac. One purchase covers all three. |
| Price | Paid, once. No ads, no subscription. Optional star packs buy hints. |
| Levels | 70: six tutorials, then five chapters (standard, bugs, chips, teleportation, sleeping robots) |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Traditional) |
| App Store | apps.apple.com/app/id1550504475 |
| Website | kidori.com/games/recursive, with the first six levels playable in the browser |
| Elsewhere | Product Hunt |
| Contact | hello@kidori.com |
In one sentence
Recursive is a puzzle game where you help little robots collect gems by writing short programs that call themselves.
In a paragraph
In Recursive, every robot on the board runs the same tiny program. You build it by dragging three moves (move forward, turn left, turn right) into four colored functions, and each robot starts in the function of its own color. Functions can call each other, and themselves, so a handful of instructions can sweep a whole board. Each of the 70 handmade levels has an instruction budget, which turns every board into a hunt for the shortest program that works. Later chapters add bugs to avoid, chips that recolor robots, teleportation gates and sleeping robots that join in. It’s simple to learn and hard to master: no code to read, nothing to know beforehand, only arrows, colors and recursion.
