Recompile
Phigames · Dear Villagers · Released 2021-08-19
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Phigames · Dear Villagers · Released 2021-08-19
Metascore
critics
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Wishlist the game now! About the Game Witness the birth of sapient AI in this sprawling atmospheric hacking adventure. Combining Metroidvania progression with non-linear exploration and gameplay. Recompile challenges players to explore, fight, hack, and survive. Discover the many secrets beneath ancient digital landscape and prepare for system-wide reconfiguration. The game’s entire narrative takes place within 1 second of real time. Delve into the ancient, sprawling ruins of the Mainframe and discover a range of traversal abilities to help you on your journey towards attaining true sapience. The game has multiple endings based on the players actions; you can repair systems, restore lost data, hack or destroy enemies, all whilst uncovering the truth about the Hypervisor and the original purpose of the Mainframe. The inhabitants of the Mainframe are strange and diverse, and many are found to be inherently hostile. A full complement of powerful weapons and abilities are available to help you survive, defend and destroy. Many environmental features, such locked doors, forcefields, elevators and even enemy spawning systems are all powered by intricate, interconnected logic gate circuitry. Nothing is hardcoded, everything is systemic, and all fully exploitable. Logic gates can be freely inverted (and reverted), allowing puzzles or other threatening obstacles to be peacefully and safely bypassed. Even the inhabitants themselves can be tampered with, their programming changed to follow the player’s commands. The story explores everything from machine sentience to the nature of choice. Life and death. Chaos and determinism. Sentience and sapience. Intelligence exists in many forms. In this dying world, one must explore all possibilities. Observe and respect all perspectives. Only then, can we truly survive. Games that inspired us: Axiom Verge, Hollow Knight, Ori and the Blind Forest, Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Rime
| Requirements | |
|---|---|
| OS | Windows 7+ |
| Processor | 3 GHz |
| Memory | 8 GB RAM |
| Graphics | NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti 2GB | AMD Radeon R7 265 |
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Recompile is available on PC, PlayStation and Xbox.
Yes — Recompile is available on PlayStation.
Yes — Recompile is available on Xbox.
No — Recompile is not available on Nintendo Switch. It's available on PC, PlayStation and Xbox.
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Recompile was developed by Phigames and published by Dear Villagers.
Recompile was released on 2021-08-19.
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Recompile takes approximately 2 hours to complete the main story.
