Refund Demo

Refund is a grid puzzle game. Paid tiles hand out receipts, and refunding one does more than return your coins: it backs you into walls, blasts you across the board, rewinds time, resets the map! 50 handcrafted levels where every single coin counts.

Refund is a single-player grid puzzle game. The rules fit in one sentence: every coin you spend can be refunded — but a refund never just returns money. Each receipt rewrites your position, your resources, or the map itself, in its own particular way.<h2 class="bb_tag" >The core mechanic: receipts</h2>The most basic paid tile is the footprint tile: leaving it costs coins and hands you a receipt that records the direction of that step.<br>Refund the receipt and you step backwards, against the recorded direction — and no wall can stop that step. <strong>You can back straight into a wall</strong> and stand where normal movement will never reach. That is the answer to a surprising number of these puzzles.<br>A refund always returns exactly half of what you paid. Every &quot;spend now, refund later&quot; carries a real cost — which is why every coin must be counted.<br>When to spend, when to refund, and in which order — that is the whole solution space of every level.<br><br><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4878720/extras/eb830320b3b7d3758c6f5ebbf0a97fcf.poster.avif?t=1783308202" width=950 height=544 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4878720/extras/eb830320b3b7d3758c6f5ebbf0a97fcf.webm?t=1783308202" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4878720/extras/eb830320b3b7d3758c6f5ebbf0a97fcf.mp4?t=1783308202" type="video/mp4"></video></span><h2 class="bb_tag" >Level titles</h2>Every level title is hand-written by the author: hints, rambling, dinner plans, and some genuine scams. And one useless but delightful rule — <strong>the title of level N is exactly N words long</strong> (N characters in Chinese and Japanese). It holds in all 15 languages, except level 50, which is simply a thank-you.<h2 class="bb_tag" >About refunding this game</h2>Of course, you may also refund <i>Refund</i> itself at any time — even if all you wanted was to experience one complete refund. <strong>If this game's refund rate ever reaches 95%, I shall declare it &quot;Overwhelmingly Positive&quot;.</strong><h2 class="bb_tag" >The systems</h2><strong>Fans</strong> cost coins to use and blow you across the board in a straight line — the only safe way over the void. Fans take refunds too: the same gust, blown backwards.<br><br><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4878720/extras/0a6226b38c8a26bb62388a875ce0602b.poster.avif?t=1783308202" width=1084 height=410 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4878720/extras/0a6226b38c8a26bb62388a875ce0602b.webm?t=1783308202" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4878720/extras/0a6226b38c8a26bb62388a875ce0602b.mp4?t=1783308202" type="video/mp4"></video></span><br><br><strong>Pins</strong>: pay as you leave one and it becomes a record point; refund its receipt and you teleport straight back to it, from anywhere on the map.<br><strong>Clocks</strong> are savepoints for YOU: a refund rewinds your position, coins and receipts to the moment you wound the clock. The map stays as it is.<br><br><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4878720/extras/4608ef68012a1e0310059b469b9b46ab.poster.avif?t=1783308202" width=1170 height=470 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4878720/extras/4608ef68012a1e0310059b469b9b46ab.webm?t=1783308202" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4878720/extras/4608ef68012a1e0310059b469b9b46ab.mp4?t=1783308202" type="video/mp4"></video></span><br><br><strong>Cameras</strong> are savepoints for the MAP: a refund rewinds the board to the snapshot, while you stay where you are. Combine both and the two timelines stay strictly independent.<br><br><span class="bb_img_ctn"><video class="bb_img" autoplay muted loop playsinline poster="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4878720/extras/35281b81701b21398a2882f825b8be26.poster.avif?t=1783308202" width=1170 height=470 ><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4878720/extras/35281b81701b21398a2882f825b8be26.webm?t=1783308202" type="video/webm; codecs=vp9"><source src="https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/4878720/extras/35281b81701b21398a2882f825b8be26.mp4?t=1783308202" type="video/mp4"></video></span><br><br>Plus multiplier tiles, coin-zeroing tiles, loose coins and the lethal void — 50 levels introduce new pieces chapter by chapter, then keep recombining the old ones.<h2 class="bb_tag" >The budget is the puzzle</h2>Clearing a level takes exactly one thing: reach every ★.<br>The real constraint is money. On almost every level the starting coins sit right at the optimal solution — one expense too many, and the last star quietly drifts out of reach. Solving a level means reworking your spend-and-refund order until the books balance.<br>Quality of life:<br><ul class="bb_ul"><li>Unlimited undo, redo and restart — experimenting is free;<br></li><li>Every level ships with a verified official solution, replayable once you clear it;<br></li><li>Stuck on a level for 20 minutes? A portal opens in the corner and lets you skip it.</li></ul><h2 class="bb_tag" >Features</h2><ul class="bb_ul"><li>50 handcrafted single-player puzzle levels<br></li><li>Refund steps that back you into walls, pin teleports, clock/camera dual savepoints, fan rides<br></li><li>A verified official solution for every level<br></li><li>Unlimited undo / redo<br></li><li>Full controller support, with hints that switch between keyboard and gamepad automatically<br></li><li>Interface and all level titles localized into 15 languages<br></li><li>11 Steam achievements + Steam Cloud saves</li></ul><br>If you like puzzle games with few rules and deep combinations, welcome to Refund.