CUTBANK: A Game Boy Geology Deduction Game, Free Demo
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Puzzle. Paid; free browser demo on the page.
CUTBANK: A Game Boy Geology Deduction Game, Free Demo is a game, paid, with a free browser demo on the store page.
You never see what happened. You see what it left behind. A cut bank is a face of ground sliced open: beds of rock stacked in order, a dike of cooled melt forced up through them, a fault where the ground broke and slipped, and a wavy surface where time itself is missing. Every one of those is a thing that happened, and the ground records the order they happened in. Your job is to read it.
Each cut deals you eleven events on cards. Stack them oldest at the foot. The cartridge does not score you and it does not tell you which card is wrong. It names the two events you put the wrong way round, and the rule that proves it: superposition, cross cutting, inclusion, and five more. Then you read the ground again. It does not ask for the one true history, because there usually is not one.
Erosion destroys the record, and what survives often allows several orders. The cartridge checks every relation the ground can actually prove, and accepts any stack that breaks none of them.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Paid · free browser demo on the page · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.