TurnTack

TurnTack is a puzzle-platformer in which you play as a white-haired girl marked by prophecy, fleeing the Aztec civilization. The Aztecs intend to sacrifice her to Perish, believing her sacrifice will make the sun move again. You avoid obstacles along the way and uncover the story behind the prophecy.

The Aztec myth

The game draws on an Aztec legend in which the human world lasts 4,000 years before perishing. The first world ended when a flood swallowed the sun after lasting 4,008 years. In the second world, 4,010 years later, a powerful wind swept away people and the sun; people clung to trees by their hands and feet. After 4,081 years, a great fire destroyed the third world. In the fourth, a rain of blood and fire left nothing growing, and people starved.

The fifth world began at Teotihuacan, but darkness covered everything. The gods had to burn themselves to create the sun: Nanahuatzin leapt into the fire and became the sun, and Tecuciztecal followed, becoming the moon. When neither moved, the gods took turns giving their hearts to the serpent god Quetzalcoatl, and the sun and moon began to move.

The Aztecs believed that offering living hearts at an altar could slow the world's destruction, and they continued to sacrifice people. When the sun stopped again, they believed a white-haired person—not another living person—had to be sacrificed to set it moving. Murals passed down the legend, and one day a white-haired girl appeared.