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A Way Back

A Way Back

A Way Back

Solve challenging sokoban-like puzzles to help a little penguin clean islands from nasty plastic trash and find A Way Back home!

Developer

Timur Chanturia, Jenya Kuzmenko

Never Give Up Games

Released

28 Apr 2022

4 years ago

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Overview

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Solve challenging sokoban-like puzzles to help a little penguin clean islands from nasty plastic trash and find A Way Back home!

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Solve challenging sokoban-like puzzles to help a little penguin clean islands from nasty plastic trash and find A Way Back home!

Cute hand-drawn art by Jenya "lodfu" Kuzmenko
Challenging puzzles by Timur "haze" Chanturia
A lovely original soundtrack by Tom "TKIMUSE" Kinsella

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OS: 64bit Microsoft® Windows® 7 SP1, 8.1, 10 (version 1607 or better)
CPU: 64bit 1.5 GHz CPU
RAM: 1024 MB RAM
GPU: OpenGL 3.0 (DirectX® 10) compliant graphics card and driver
Disk: 300 MB available space

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OS: 64bit Microsoft® Windows® 7 SP1, 8.1, 10 (version 1607 or better)
CPU: 64bit 1.5 GHz CPU
RAM: 1024 MB RAM
GPU: OpenGL 3.0 (DirectX® 10) compliant graphics card and driver
Disk: 300 MB available space

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Achievements

You shall not pass!

Trap yourself in a tight place

Welcome to Theemulan!

Slava Ukraini!

Heroyam Slava!

Professional cleaner

Clean all the islands

Serial kicker

Kick a trash bin 19 times in a row

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