The Egho

The Egho is a turn-based puzzle game about working with your own past.

Every 10 turns, a copy of you appears at the start and replays every key you pressed, exactly. Your echoes hold buttons while you walk through doors, flip levers, push crates, and walk into traps so you don't have to. Plan your moves so that the you from 10, 20 and 30 turns ago is in the right place at the right time.

Your echoes repeat your keys, not your path. Bumped into a closed door? Ten turns later it might be open, and your echo walks through and goes somewhere you never went.

And nothing here plays fair.

• Hidden spikes that look exactly like floor
• Trapdoors that drop you into the dark
• Walls that shoot up right in front of you
• "Walls" that turn out to be lasers, firing on a rhythm your echoes don't share

Die, press Z, remember. Undo works on every move, so experimenting is free.

Features

• 15 hand-made levels (6 in the free demo), with more on the way
• Buttons, doors, levers, crates, and four kinds of hidden traps
• Undo and restart at any time; your best turn count is saved for every level
• Level editor: paint your own puzzles, play-test them to prove they can be solved, and share them with friends as a short code
• Pixel art, chunky sound effects, no timers, no reflexes needed

Try the free demo first. It has the first 6 levels, and your progress carries over to the full game on the same computer.

Installing

• Windows: unzip and run TheEgho.exe. Windows SmartScreen may warn about an unknown publisher: "More info" → "Run anyway".
• macOS: unzip, then right-click the app → Open the first time (the app isn't notarized by Apple). Or use the itch.io app, which handles this for you.
• Linux: unzip, then make the file executable (chmod +x TheEgho.x86_64) and run it.

Controls

• Arrows / WASD: move
• Space: wait a turn
• Z: undo (hold to rewind)
• R: restart the level
• Esc: back to the level list

Credits

• Made with Godot Engine (MIT)
• Font: Pixelify Sans (SIL Open Font License)
• Pixel art generated with SpriteCook; sound effects synthesized for this game