The Turning Year: A Seasons Puzzle Adventure, Free Demo
A game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Adventure, Puzzle. Paid; free browser demo on the page.
The Turning Year: A Seasons Puzzle Adventure, Free Demo is a game, paid, with a free browser demo on the store page.
The Turning Year is a puzzle adventure with 4 lands and one dial that turns the world through 4 seasons: ice is a bridge, flood a road, drought a door. One overworld, drawn four times over (spring, summer, autumn, winter) and one dial that turns the whole world between them. Hold the dial and the season moves. Let go and the year slides home. The free browser demo is on this page.
Play the Meadow and the Mere right here, no install. The Windows download adds the Fell, the Dunes and the ending. Nothing in this game is ever unlocked. There is no key, no upgrade, no gate that opens because you found the thing that opens it.
The only thing that changes is what you have worked out about the year: that the brook will carry you if you freeze it and keep it frozen, that the Mere rises high enough to float a boat over its own sluice for a few seconds before the ice locks the level, that the door below the lowest water is reachable exactly once a year and only if you have spent summer somewhere else. And the year fights you the whole time.
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.