About This Game

Refund is a single-player grid puzzle game. The rules fit in one sentence: every coin you spend can be refunded — but a refund never just returns money. Each receipt rewrites your position, your resources, or the map itself, in its own particular way.

The core mechanic: receipts

The most basic paid tile is the footprint tile: leaving it costs coins and hands you a receipt that records the direction of that step.
Refund the receipt and you step backwards, against the recorded direction — and no wall can stop that step. You can back straight into a wall and stand where normal movement will never reach. That is the answer to a surprising number of these puzzles.
A refund always returns exactly half of what you paid. Every "spend now, refund later" carries a real cost — which is why every coin must be counted.
When to spend, 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.

About refunding this game

Of course, you may also refund Refund itself at any time — even if all you wanted was to experience one complete refund. If this game's refund rate ever reaches 95%, I shall declare it "Overwhelmingly Positive".

The systems

Fans cost coins to use and 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: pay as you leave one and it becomes a record point; refund its receipt 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, coin-zeroing 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 expense too many, and the last star quietly drifts out of reach. Solving a level means reworking your spend-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
  
• Refund steps that back you into walls, 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.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Some pre-rendered 2D artwork, icon, and UI/store visual assets were created or assisted with generative AI during development. The game does not generate AI content during gameplay and does not connect to an external AI service.