PLUMBLINE
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Platformer. Paid; free browser demo on the page.
PLUMBLINE is a game, paid, with a free browser demo on the store page.
PLUMBLINE is a short metroidvania for Windows in 4 regions, with no keys, no upgrades and no items. The only thing that opens the way forward is what you learn. The browser version on this page is free and holds the first 2 of the 4 regions. The paid Windows download is the full descent: all 4 regions, both remaining gates and the ending.
You are lowered into a sealed shaft to find out why the last three surveys disagree. You carry a plumb line: a weight on a cord that reports the true depth of a place whose layout lies about it. What you actually do The weight goes where you cannot. It is small enough to fall through a barred floor that you are not, and set down in the right place, something answers.
The rooms are drawn so that judging a place by eye gives the wrong answer, so you trust the instrument rather than the picture. You are never asked to count tiles yourself. Two numbers sit on screen and they measure different things. The reel shows how much cord is paid out, and the cord is ten marks long.
The reading shows the true depth of wherever the weight came to rest, which is why it is often the larger of the two. Every gate here was openable from the moment you arrived.
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.