Recursive vs Frachtbrief

Recursive is a puzzle game about recursion, patterns, and programming. It is the perfect game for people who love hard puzzles. Your goal is to help little robots complete their mission and collect all gems by finding the correct pattern and translating it into a short program. # Programming language (no prior knowledge required) The programming language is minimalistic and easy to learn. It doesn't require any prior programming knowledge and consists of only four instructions. - Move forward: Move one cell forward. - Rotate left: Rotate 90° left in place. - Rotate right: Rotate 90° right in place. - Change color: Load a chip of a specified color and execute the instructions it contains. And even with this simple programming language, robots can follow complex patterns thanks to the power of recursion and to other tricks that you can discover along with your progression in the game. # Rich levels Recursive offers a large variety of levels thanks to supporting multiple types of elements. - Robots: They can have different colors that reflect the chip they have loaded. - Gems: Your goal is to collect all of them. - Bugs: They destroy robots and make them disappear. - Chips: They make robots load a different program. - Teleportation gates: They make robots teleport to a different location. - Inactive robots: They are activated when touched by another robot. # Mastering recursion Recursion is said to be hard to understand as a famous quote attributed to Stephen Hawking says: "To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion." However, we believe that playing Recursive is another fun way to understand it or even master it.

An inherited freighter, 9,000 credits and ten worlds that each need something different. The farm domes of Cindral are drowning in nutrient paste, the shipyard world Elyth needs everything, and Vantar cores are only sold at the frontier bazaar of Belveth. Buy where it's cheap, sell where it's scarce – and watch your own trades move the market. Bring the same cargo ten times and you'll ruin your own price. The goal is a total worth of one million credits. How fast you get there is up to you. TRADE • Ten goods from nutrient paste to Vantar cores, ten worlds with their own supply and demand • Prices follow supply and demand: every purchase pushes the price up, every sale pushes it down • The price board shows every market at a glance – blue is cheap, red is scarce BUILD A FLEET • Three ship types: the fast Needle, the reliable Ox, the huge Colossus • Shipyards upgrade cargo hold, drive, efficiency and shielding • Trade routes: ships run two to four stops on their own and trade for you ON THE WAY • Ion storms, pirates, reactor failures and quarantines shake up the markets • The log records every trade and every incident • The clock stops while you compare prices or browse the shipyard COMPETE • Weekly map: everyone flies the same map, ranked by the days it takes to reach a million • A permanent leaderboard for free play and 12 Game Center achievements For iPhone and iPad, no account and no internet connection needed. Frachtbrief is free and occasionally shows an ad during a break – buy "No Ads" to remove them for good.