Epicycles

Epicycles is an abstract minimalist puzzle game about permutations.
Rotate cycles to move objects into their correct places.

Interact with intricate mechanisms emerging from elementary puzzle elements.

Featuring:

• Players and Boxes - two kinds of objects with distinct properties
• Links - cycles joined together into more complex machinery
• Detectors - cycles move objects, but objects can move cycles
• Tutorial levels teaching all necessary interactions by play rather than by text
• A wide range of levels to choose from - find your own preferred flavour
• Short and sweet puzzles
• Variations on classic brain teasers
• Tricky resource management
• Mathematical riddles from number theory or group theory
• Flexible level format for creating custom levels

Accessibility

• Gameplay elements all fully recognizable even in grayscale
• Customisable colours
• Graphics settings to accommodate things like reduced motion
• All inputs are timing-independent
• Playable mouse-only
• Undo system