Refund is a single-player grid puzzle game. You move through a little shop where stepping on goods means buying them: coins are paid, and a receipt lands in your pocket. The real rules live in the refunds — every refund rewrites your position, your resources, or the map itself.

The core mechanic: refunds

Every receipt remembers the step you took when you bought it.

Refund: part of the cost comes back, and you step backwards, against the recorded direction. This step ignores physics — it can carry you straight into a wall. Punching through walls is the heart of the game.

Refund only: the coins come back, you stay put.

When to buy, when to refund, and in which order — that is the whole solution space of every level.

Level titles

Every level title is hand-written by the author: hints, rambling, dinner plans, and some genuine scams. And one useless but delightful rule — the title of level N is exactly N words long (N characters in Chinese and Japanese). It holds in all 15 languages, except level 50, which is simply a thank-you.

The systems

• Fans 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.

• Pins become record points when stepped on; refund one and you teleport straight back to it, from anywhere on the map.

• Clocks 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.
  
  

• Cameras 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.

• Plus multiplier tiles, toll tiles, loose coins and the lethal void — 50 levels introduce new pieces chapter by chapter, then keep recombining the old ones.

The budget is the puzzle

Clearing a level takes exactly one thing: reach every ★.

The real constraint is money. On almost every level the starting coins sit right at the optimal solution — one purchase too many, and the last star quietly drifts out of reach. Solving a level means reworking your buy-and-refund order until the books balance.

Quality of life:

• Unlimited undo, redo and restart — experimenting is free;

• Every level ships with a verified official solution, replayable once you clear it;

• Stuck on a level for 20 minutes? A portal opens in the corner and lets you skip it.

Features

• 50 handcrafted single-player puzzle levels

• Wall-piercing refunds, pin teleports, clock/camera dual savepoints, fan rides

• A verified official solution for every level

• Unlimited undo / redo

• Full controller support, with hints that switch between keyboard and gamepad automatically

• Interface and all level titles localized into 15 languages

• 11 Steam achievements + Steam Cloud saves

If you like puzzle games with few rules and deep combinations, welcome to Refund.