Refund This Game is a first-person Foddian[1] rage game with the twist stated clearly in its name: if you are able to get all the way to the top of our historically accurate 90’s cyberspace tower within Steam’s refund window, we invite players to refund the game guilt free! We beat it ourselves, so we know it’s possible; but it will not be easy! Just one little mistake could send you tumbling down all the way to the bottom, forcing you to start over from the beginning again.
The only thing you have to help you get to the top is a single pole-vaulting spear. Using only 100% accurate cyber-vaulting pole physics, you'll need to stab your stick into the walls of the tower and fling yourself all the way up to the goal!
REAL ACTUAL FEATURES:
- Cyberspace Pole Vaulting!
Stick your pole to a wall, bend it, and let go! You’ll need to master the physics-based stick-flinging in order to catapult yourself to the top and earn that refund. It won’t be easy, but it feels amazing once you master it!
- One (1) checkpoint.
…but you can always go back and get it, if you’ve already placed it. Just make sure the stress of your hubris doesn’t cause you to mess up and fall all the way down to the bottom!
- Cool and nostalgic Jungle soundtrack!
- Leaderboard for the Real Gamers.
- Secret final challenge section?
??? (Shush! It’s a secret!)
“Like all great collabs between game developers, this all began with a chat over lunch” explains Ben Clarke, CEO of Cactile Games. “We knew we wanted to make a game together, and decided to do something in response to the recent discourse about Steam’s refund window. We challenged ourselves to make a super fun game in a very short amount of time; which we’re now challenging players to beat within just two hours! While we genuinely are fine with encouraging people to ‘Refund This Game’ (if they actually beat it!), we really put in a lot of love and effort to make this game as fun as possible for those who decide to keep it”.
"This game is a celebration of the player’s right to refunds” dofhouse’s CEO William Jutbring continues. “We've always cared deeply about consumer rights and freedoms and have a strong distaste for business practices that rely on unfair and exploitative strategies like AI, paywalls, live-service and other dark patterns which only result in worse games and wasted money. So we did the opposite. A hand-crafted platformer that a skilled enough player can purchase, defeat, and refund all in a day's work".
Refund This Game is being developed exclusively for Steam, targeting a release date as soon as October 15th. We urge as many as possible to wishlist the game to be notified when it launches, so you can try to be among the first to complete the challenge!
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About Cactile Games
Cactile Games is a close-knit team of 14 developers based in Skövde, Sweden. Founded by the entire team behind the beloved train game Locomoto, now embarking on a new independent journey. With a culture of love and whimsy, the studio’s games aim to mirror that with their own title Goblin Getaway, currently in development.
About dofhouse
Specializing in stylized, flashy and polished gameplay, dofhouse creates games in various genres using unique tools and engines, all with the goal of preserving video games as an art form and keeping it fair for players. Following the release of dofbox, they are currently developing their love letter to the '90s: Project: AMICA, a colorful boomer shooter made in UZDoom.