Games Like AfterImage

Your failed attempts don't disappear. You climb them.

AFTERIMAGE is a puzzle platformer built on a single button that matters. Press ECHO and the run you just made is sealed and released as a solid body — a past self that replays your exact inputs, forever, and that you can stand on. You are put back at the start, on top of the stack. Every route up is one you built out of the attempts that didn't make it.

One rule. Eleven ways to use it.

There are no unlocks and no upgrade tree. Everything in the game falls out of two facts: your echoes are solid, and anything standing on something that moves inherits its motion.

Hazards destroy everything, your past selves included — so a tower is never safe by default, and an echo that walks into spikes is gone for the rest of the attempt.

80 hand-built floors

The campaign is 80 authored rooms in fourteen tiers, each introducing one idea on its own before combining it with everything before it. No procedural generation, no filler: every floor was placed by hand and solved before it shipped.

The editor is the same game

Build levels in the physics you just played, not an approximation of it. Eleven elements — solids, crumblers, belts, movers, hazards, counterweights, plates, gates, keys, spawn and exit — drag, resize and snap on a grid, with TEST one keystroke away.

Proven, not promised

You cannot publish a level you have not beaten. The simulation is deterministic, and a run is recorded as inputs rather than positions — one byte per frame. That makes your clear a checkable claim: when you publish, the server re-runs your solution against the level you built and confirms it actually finishes. Levels that pass carry a VERIFIED badge. Nothing in the community pool is a room somebody uploaded and hoped was possible.

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