Cool Time Mechanic Explained In This New Loopable Footage From An Upcoming 3D Puzzle Platformer

kaleidoscube studio is a Germany-based indie studio working on RECUR using Unreal Engine. It is a 3D platformer with a mindblowing concept: time manipulation, which impressed us so much when the game was revealed last year. 

The protagonist's time-bending abilities were crucial in the gameplay, and to help the fans understand the mechanics better, the team has recently shared a new demo to showcase it. 

This seamlessly loopable clip tells how items in the surroundings, like the ladders, bags, wooden plates, and platforms, respond to your movements. As the player's role, postman, moves left and right, these objects shift between their past and present positions, at the same pace. 

With this superpower to control the flow of time, you can travel to the past, solve puzzles, and change outcomes as the apocalypse unfolds. "Explore a world falling apart in your quest to put things right. Or left," reads the game's description.

This newly shared footage has reminded some of Braid, the beloved puzzle-platform video game developed by Number None and released in 2009. The developers credit it as an inspiration while creating a 3D experience and adding an additional "time freeze" feature.

RECUR is still in development. If you like this creative idea behind it, don't hesitate to wishlist it on Steam and follow its development on social media.