Gentoo Rescue

Gentoo Rescue

Jagriff · May 22, 2025 · Puzzle, Logic, Difficult, Relaxing, Open World

Buy Gentoo Rescue from Steam at $19.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.

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Gentoo Rescue price by region

Gentoo Rescue costs $10.49 in Georgia (USD), £16.75 in the United Kingdom, €19.50 in Europe (EUR), $19.99 in the United States, CA$25.99 in Canada, NZ$28.99 in New Zealand, A$29.50 in Australia, R$59.99 in Brazil and zł91.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Gentoo Rescue offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
Georgia (USD) $10.49 $10.49 — 1
United Kingdom £16.75 £16.75 — 1
Europe (EUR) €19.50 €19.50 — 1
United Statesyour region $19.99 $19.99 — 1
Canada CA$25.99 CA$25.99 — 1
New Zealand NZ$28.99 NZ$28.99 — 1
Australia A$29.50 A$29.50 — 1
Brazil R$59.99 R$59.99 — 1
Poland zł91.99 zł91.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Gentoo Rescue

Slide animals to save baby penguins and escape with walruses. Change the rules with simple items like a hammer, a spring, or a magnet. Discover emergent uses of these tools, and how they interact with other mechanics. Explore an open world of nested puzzles by gaining new capabilities and knowledge.

Puzzles are designed to showcase with a "simple, but difficult" philosophy, with each puzzle bringing a new idea. They're carefully designed to be instructive, tight, and deducible.

Featuring

  • Penguins, walruses, and fish! Each introduces opposing win criteria.
  • Rapidly expanding set of mechanics and interactions.
  • Over 300 diverse, hand-crafted levels. No filler!
  • An interconnected network of puzzles with item-based progression and metagame twists.
  • Journal for tracking mechanics, which also lists entries needed for the current puzzle.
  • A tiered hint system that teaches a deduction-based approach.
  • 16 biomes distinguishing areas and mechanics, with original music.
  • Puzzle editor with Steam Workshop support for sharing custom levelpacks.

Accessibility

  • No time-sensitive inputs, with undo and redo binds that work through resets.
  • Use a controller, keyboard, or mouse with customizable binds. (Note: Puzzle editor requires a mouse.)
  • Colorblind friendly with customizable colors.
  • Most puzzles are optional for progression, and a setting makes any puzzle skippable.
  • Warp navigation system for quickly returning to anywhere you've been.
  • Solutions, \, and \ are saved, so meta goals don't require any repeat work.

Gentoo Rescue — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Verified
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players praise this game as an excellently designed puzzle experience with deep, layered mechanics that build progressively without hand-holding, great quality-of-life features like a comprehensive journal and tiered hint system, and tight puzzle design that rarely leaves you overwhelmed with options. The main complaint centers on some mechanical interactions feeling somewhat arbitrary or disconnected, though this criticism comes from players who clearly love the game overall and are critiquing it at a high level rather than condemning it.

Recommended Aug 12, 2026
An absolute masterpiece as far as puzzle games go. This game put me in awe many times, and I quickly got addicted to the sense of discovery and exploration that it offers. Gentoo Rescue pushes the limit of the genre in a extremely playful and clever way. Congratulations
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Recommended Aug 7, 2026
Beautifully crafted puzzle game. Many of the puzzles are optional and each has an interesting, unique idea at its core -- this plus the very tastefully implemented hint system make this a great choice for casual puzzlers. But for the puzzle sickos like myself there is also lots to love: countless interactions to discover, super difficult secret levels to find, and great end-game meta puzzle elements.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jul 25, 2026
Very creative puzzles, a lot of depth, crazy endgame! Extremly underrated game. I really like the hint system, it keeps the game self contained (you don't need to google for help, the game itself helps you if you want), and they are not like "press left, right, Q, up", they instead make you think in the right direction "What must be the last move?" or "Where should the blue pengin be?" etc. I found all of the super hard puzzles to be entirelly optional, so the game can be pretty entry-level. But if you want to 100% you will need to solve some *reallly* hard puzzles, but these puzzles are usualy only accessble after beating "Replication" (the last "world"). Some spoiler details about the game: [spoiler] The idea of a journal of item and penguin interactions sounds crazy, but with the amount of stuff this game it's actually needed, specially for the endgame puzzles. Importing and exporting add insane amount of depth to the game, Extraction bent my mind in a really good way. [/spolier]
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 27, 2026
Absolutely delicious puzzles!! Sort of reminds me of Puddle Knights due to the cheesy and simple aesthetic that undersells the top-tier puzzle quality. I'd always known that ice puzzles had potential i'd always known it
Recommended Jul 19, 2026
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Recommended Jul 10, 2026
This game is good, like Baba is you levels of good, this really should be getting more attention.

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