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6th February 2025, Milan, Italy: Rewind Studios is thrilled to announce Paradox!, a fast-paced, single-screen puzzle platformer that challenges players with planning, logic, and quick reflexes, and where every level is played TWICE, in the past, and the future. You can wishlist the game on Steam today, and prepare to play the demo during this February’s Next Fest!
Inspired by the classic Cartoon Network art of our favourite animated shows from the noughties and tens, in Paradox! you play in both the past and future, experiencing each level from two distinct pinpoints in the space time continuum. With a broken time machine that needs fixing, you initially control the sprightly young professor, tasked with collecting the scattered time crystals while navigating through levels filled with deadly lasers, vanishing platforms, and racing against a ticking clock. The environment seems to mysteriously be aligned on your way, suggesting that someone is manipulating things from behind the scenes, or better still, from a moment in time.
In the second phase, you switch to your future self. Here, your role shifts to manipulating the environment, ensuring the success of your younger self in this paradoxical partnership. Help your past self by spawning platforms and turning off lasers, as he traverses the level exactly as you first played it.
Beware However: any physical contact between the two professors will erase you from existence! Use your tricked-out cane stick and slick rollers to outsmart time itself.
“As a game designer, the idea for Paradox! was born out of my passion for sci-fi and my fascination with how both cinema and video games attempt to explain time travel and the countless pseudo theories surrounding it. The concept of traveling back in time to meet your younger, more inexperienced self, with an entire future (already written) ahead, giving rise to paradoxes, has always sparked my imagination.” Said Marco Domenico Buttiglione, Game Designer at Rewind Studios. “With Paradox! you do just that, your past actions directly affect your future, in what we can best describe as a solo-player co-op experience, a hilariously philosophical journey where every action carries weight across multiple timelines.”
“Back in our university videogame design course, I immediately fell in love with the concept for Paradox! and didn't have to think twice about joining the team. I was fascinated by the idea of a "single player co-op", as we like to call it, and wanted it to become much more than a school project”. Said Riccardo Rigamondi, Art Director at Rewind Studios. “Having to strategize so thoroughly with your past and future actions in such a simple platformer setting makes picking up the game really easy to begin with, but it will thoroughly challenge your skills, and dare I say patience, as you progress. The whole team has also eagerly embraced this late 90s/early 00s cartoon aesthetic (no name dropping, but we think it's obvious!) and we hope fellow fans of that era will enjoy the feeling we’ve created in game.”
Ready to Bend Time and restore balance in our cartoony world? Add Paradox! to your WISHLIST on Steam now so you don’t miss the demo during this February’s Steam Next Fest!
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About Rewind Studios:
Based in Milan, Italy, Rewind Studios is an independent game development team formed by a group of university colleagues who joined forces after creating the prototype for Paradox!. Paradox! is their debut title, born from their shared love for video games, 2000s pop culture, and the quirky humor of early internet life. Rewind Studios crafts games for lovers of challenging puzzles and the geeky charm of classic gaming adventures.