A Puzzle Game About Failure

A puzzle platformer about turning failure into progress, inspired by the developer's struggles with cycles of manic highs and depressive lows.

You’re trapped inside a dream-like dimension, with no clear way out.

She wants to guide you forward.
But, the path ahead is full of deadly traps… and your only real ability? To fail.

Fortunately for you, there are mysterious orbs that let you leave a fragment of yourself behind. What remains will become barriers against hazards or platforms paving your way forward.

Fail and fail again, until you succeed. Persistence and clever thinking is the only way out of this place.

Demo Features

This demo is a condensed preview version of the full game. It contains all of the same core features; just a lot fewer levels, a smaller lobby, minimal narrative, and no ending.

Key Features

• Logic-Driven Puzzles  
  Every puzzle has a solution grounded in consistent logical systems.

• Fail To Succeed 
  Failure isn't optional, it's the strategic challenge you need to overcome. Embrace failure to learn, uncover and overcome what ever stands in your way. Fail, reflect on the new possibilities, adapt, and try again.

• Fast Resets
  Did you fail too much? Fear not! With fast resets, the game encourages you to experiment with failure, to learn, and  try again.

• Deadly Puzzles
  With 40+ handcrafted puzzles in the main game, difficulties range from "easy-breezy" to hair loss frustration. Put your creative problem solving to the test, and discover all the ways to fail!

• Creative Solutions
  Puzzle out a sequence of purposefully executed failures, and pave a path through a deadly environment, by making creative use of a limited set of tools.

• Narrative Without Words
  No spoken or written dialogue. Meaning is implicitly told though visuals and game play.

• Dog(s)!
  Choose between multiple dogs to be your guide, source of comfort and motivation, in an otherwise bleak world.
  Is your dog missing from the game? Contact us and we will try to remedy that!

Background

Originally conceived during while a student, Fail Fail Succeed grew from feelings of being stuck in a cycle of manic highs and hard crashes. The mechanics were designed as metaphors for those struggles: failure as an inevitable outcome, but traces of progress being left behind. In a bleak world of exhausting repetition, small comforts in the companionship of a loyal pup often became a guiding light.

Fail Fail Succeed is developed by a single developer. What began as a small weekend project, slowly grew after positive feedback, was further developed for GGC and SGA, and is now finally coming to Steam for everyone to play!