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Before the battery´s over

Parables Games · Parables Games

Before the battery´s over

gameAppID 1572830Released
Release dateApr 7, 2021

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Details

DeveloperParables Games
PublisherParables Games
FreeNo
Required ageNone

Restore a robot's memory files before the battery runs out. A distinct jigsaw puzzle game in which the movements and resources consume the life of your robot. Recover your memory with a variety of stylized arts that tell a mysterious story from your past.

A puzzle game, which the objective is to restore all images with a finite amount of time and movements.At each completed stage, a new information about the narrative will be revealed.Discover a mysterious story behind this puzzle.With 21 levels with different images and increasing difficulty.Enjoy the grayscale cartooned illustrations while listening to an original soundtrack.Features: Some resources and notes will assist in this task ... Each fragment can be exchanged two by two by clicking on the desired frames.For each repositioning of fragments there will be a fixed consumption of the battery. The "Scanner" tool will assist in making the correctly positioned fragments.But be careful with the "Scanner" resource, the more wrong positioned fragments, the higher the battery consumption.Prologue Find out what it's like to be a robot, and deal with your internal problems. Restore a robot's memory files before its battery is over. A robot that is damaged, lost and with limited energy resources has the only chance to recover information that can save it. But a malicious program has fragmented the files on the disk. A manual restoration will be necessary, and for that, use the puzzle program to recover them.

Genres and categories

AdventureCasualIndieSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

Platforms and requirements

windows: yesmac: nolinux: no
PC
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