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Riko
A challenging Stephen's Sausage Roll inspired sokoban like game. Help Riko and her laser gun through 54 unique puzzles across six worlds.
Make it to the gold ring at the end of the level. Features a predictable enemy you can use to your advantage, and puzzle elements that work together in harmony.
A love letter to Stephen's Sausage Roll, DROD, and PuzzleScript games. Can you touch the stars?
Instructions
- Arrows or WASD - movement.
- Space - select/shoot
- Z - Undo
- R - Restart
- ESC - Back to Map
Game should save locally to your browser, with levels remaining completed between play sessions. (Use the same browser/computer)
Game isn't loading: you may need to allow third party cookies/storage. This is due to the game using localstorage to save your progress. Default settings of chrome and firefox should allow it to work. Incognito can also cause this issue.
Fix for Chrome: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44069936
Need a hint? This website has a comment section with lots of great hints and some full solutions:
https://www.bontegames.com/2020/08/riko-browser.html
Team
Andrew Jakubowicz (Spyr) - Code, Art, Design
Nic Alabaster - Designer
Matthew Lahkhan - Music
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | HTML5 |
| Rating | |
| Author | Spyr |
| Genre | Puzzle |
| Made with | Aseprite, Phaser |
| Tags | 2D, 8-Bit, Difficult, Pixel Art, Retro, Turn-based Strategy |
| Average session | About a half-hour |
| Inputs | Keyboard |
| Accessibility | High-contrast |
Comments
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I love the game, and puzzle games in general. I would like to suggest one UI improvement: when you die, if you die around the center of the map, you get very quickly covered by the black "lost" box, sometimes obscuring the feedback about why you died. It's still possible to figure things about, but easing that box would make it less jarring. Thanks for the game!
I can’t figure out the “Side Door” at all
Check out the linked websites for hints. I believe in you!
I ended up finishing the level not long after. nice game!
this is good.
The mechanics are fine, I didn't complete all the levels because I don't have the ability to think. 🦊
The sfx is really satisfying!
I loved this! Thanks so much for making it! I really enjoyed learning and playing around with the mechanics, makes me want to go play Stephen's Sausage Roll and wish for a level editor for this. I did find a niche mechanic with the monster that I didn't see come up in a puzzle, so I threw together an image of a level as a proof of concept just for fun. The button (de)activates all the gates.
The solution is (rot13):
YQYHQHEHYEEQYHQQHHHHHHQYYYYQQQQEEEEEE (Lbh pna chfu gur zbafgre fnsryl jvgu lbhe onpx)
That's a clever level :D
very cool game, where your gun is too bigga. fun think-out-of the-box mechanics, cute art style and relaxing atmosphere. I like the part where you finish the level because it goes boom.
I really love this kind of puzzle game. It made me have to think much about every actions I do, especially the level with enemies. Sadly, I have just completed only 24, and stuck in "Around the corner". Also the "Shmup", I feel like everything is almost completed, only a few steps left. Anyway, this game looks cute.
Ok I've returned to this game after 2 years after beating what are considered to be the hardest puzzle games in the market and "around the corner" is STILL trumping me. I've seen simple puzzles with seemingly impossible setups countless times, but god damnit this is getting ridiculous. Good game btw
"Around the corner" is playing with a bit of a cheeky mechanic that was nearly cut (and maybe should have been). Thank you for the comment :D
Had to use a small hint, and I'm a little mixed. On the one hand, the mechanic used is very interesting, and not touched upon in SSR. But on the other hand, the block not falling is softly breaking what felt like a very fundamental rule. Maybe the puzzle, using one-turn movements, could have used an enemy as a timer with you setting the blocks up beforehand?
Agree - your suggestion using the enemy would have been much better! This is fixed in the game I am currently working on as it is possible for the player to accomplish a true diagonal move within a turn.
"the game I am currently working"
Oh, exciting! I'm guessing it also a puzzler that uses forklift controls, and I'm super interested in any upcoming puzzle games. Will keep tuned.
I love puzzle games that made me really think of solutions and this is one of them. I cleared the first world so far, really satisfying. Now in the second world, I am stuck on "Shepherd" level. Clever puzzles.
Adorable. I love this! Puzzles are so so good and I love the character design (I assume it to be an axolotl for my own love for them lol) that matches the theme overall.
This game is amazing! Super challenging puzzles with interesting mechanics. I've only beaten 18 levels so far and already think it's better than many paid games in terms of puzzle design. I like how you took Stephen's Sausage Roll's trademark control scheme and added your own twist to it. Would love to see it get a graphical remaster and then get sold on Steam, perhaps with some added levels. Not to say that the current graphics are bad, as it looks pretty good for what I assume is a PuzzleScript game, just that it would look a bit too basic for a commercial game.
Thank you and appreciate the comment! A new game is currently in early progress which aims to have more polish and be slightly larger in scope (with some remastered puzzles and many new ones!)
Have fun!
Wow, that's great news! Really looking forward to it!
lovely game, i had some trouble figuring it out though as the difficulty ramps up quite fast so i decided i'd make a walkthrough for it : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFXHNNJm6_-SM4mMYdWbnlIbaMfw8X3rK
Really love the "About the Monster" video. Also nice!
this might be a good puzzle game, but controls are not intuitive and it stopped me(just think about it, good puzzle game is you think on start of a puzzle, but this puzzle make me think for every step)
sorry for bad english
I tried and quit and came back to "four rooms" again and again over the course of weeks. I kept coming back and today I finally got a solution that I believed would work: mirrors lined up to reflect the laser to the final switch with no doors in the way. I had it. PIC
And then I find out the laser can't cross itself. A situation I had never come across.
This is just pure evil.
I checked the hints and it says I need all the mirrors free to move and my broken solution has 2 irretrievable so I'm back to square one.
I won't let this level defeat me.
Picture of me testing that level: https://imgur.com/gallery/ZESV9
I don't think I'll finish all the monster levels. I'm good with puzzles where I can keep track of all the different permutations and it's very hard for me If every move I make almost irreversibly changes the elements of the level. The solution is too exact and one wrong step can mess you up.
That's not a criticism of puzzle design. My brain just doesn't work that way. I could eventually come to the solution, but it would require too much trial and error, and that's just no fun.
Thanks for the game!
Got it! I couldn't figure out how to get the laser past itself and the solution is so simple but kind of novel at the end. This game has fried my brain.
i suck at this game but this game has a good game soundtrack
Great game but i think i acidentally found a cheese:
in the puzzles that you have to make the monsters chase you onto a button, you can just push the monster onto the square until you're past the square.
Wowee, this is honestly one of the best puzzle game I've ever played. The satisfying animations, the overall polish, the brutal and mindbending difficulty of the puzzles that also never seem truly impossible. So good. I just finished playing through DROD and that game made me really appreciate the minimalism of Riko's design (I still enjoyed DROD quite a bit). I would love to see more games like this, especially if they also include a catgirl with an egregiously impractical laser gun.
Thank you!
any tips for Backed Up? it's a little tricky...nvm I got it. fun game!
Awesome! Also linked a site (in Riko description) with a large discussion with hints for many levels.
Thank you!
good game, but bad difficulty curve
Appreciate the feedback. Agree!
played this game a while back and never completed it, since my progress kept deleting. I'm gonna try getting back to where I was as I enjoyed it so much
Thanks for the comment! That's good feedback. In the future (probably next game) will add some way to save a file out of the browser so you have more control of your save.
Wow this playlist is amazing! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqnMDAwv_U-y9wKD9fm8lBuYuNsWihDTa
I've been really enjoying watching your thought process! Thank you for sharing!
Awesome.