Gentoo Rescue

Gentoo Rescue is a puzzle game in which you slide animals to save baby penguins and escape with walruses. You explore an open world of connected, nested puzzles, gaining new capabilities and knowledge as you progress. Simple items such as a hammer, a spring and a magnet can change the rules; discovering how they work with each other and the other mechanics creates further possibilities.

Solve the puzzles

The puzzles follow a “simple, but difficult” approach: each introduces a new idea and is designed to be instructive, focused and deducible. Penguins, walruses and fish each bring opposing win criteria. The game includes over 300 hand-crafted levels across 16 biomes, which distinguish areas and mechanics and feature original music.

Progression connects the puzzles through item-based advancement and metagame twists. A journal tracks mechanics and lists the entries needed for the current puzzle, while a tiered hint system teaches a deduction-based approach. Most puzzles are optional for progression, and a setting lets you skip any puzzle. Warp navigation lets you quickly return to anywhere you have been.

Create and share levels

A puzzle editor lets you make custom levelpacks and share them through Steam Workshop.

Accessibility options

The game has no time-sensitive inputs, and undo and redo binds work through resets. You can play with a controller, keyboard or mouse and customize the binds; the puzzle editor requires a mouse. Customizable colors support colorblind players. Solutions and two other saved elements are retained so that metagame goals do not require repeat work.