See the "A Note on Saving" section above. Save data is handled via the in-game Garden system.

Of course! Just make sure you have the most recent Garden's password written down somewhere. When you feel like coming back to where you got stuck, you can input the password in the main hub to travel back to that Garden.

Do note that you may need to re-solve a puzzle or two to get back to the level you were at before if the most recent Garden is a few levels behind.

If you are in a Pylon level, it's likely that you've created some kind of infinite loop! Luckily you should be able to press the Z key to undo yourself out of the loop.

I've received a few reports of the game lagging on particular internet browsers. If you are having this issue yourself, try play the game in a different browser and see if that improves the performance. Google Chrome appears to work well.

Due to limitations of the PuzzleScript engine, the main hub cannot remember your progress elsewhere in the game.

Thankfully, collecting and placing Monolith Fragments uses the same password system as Gardens. Simply re-input the Monolith Fragment passwords to place them again. Placing all 5 Fragments consecutively will open up the hub's exit.

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One actual ending, however there's a mysterious path in the Outro section of the game behind a locked gate. I'll leave it up to you to discover how to unlock it!

No need to worry! Every player is different, and each will find some areas and puzzle mechanics easier or more fun than others.

I encourage you to treat each discovered Monolith Fragment as its own "ending", because it's an impressive feat in itself to finish any one of the areas! There's no shame in declaring that you've completed as much of the game as you are willing to complete, and leaving it there :)

That's ok! The challenge levels are completely optional and not required to finish the game, so only play them if you get enjoyment out of it and want a higher difficulty/complexity than the main areas.

The challenge levels were not designed with the main-game difficulty curve in mind, and are partially comprised of cut content that was deemed too unfriendly for a general audience, but potentially interesting for those wanting to challenge the limits of each ruleset.

Yep! Specifically, Reliquia Park is made entirely using PuzzleScript+, which is a fork of vanilla PuzzleScript that enables a few extra handy features.

In particular, I utilize:

• Larger sprite sizes — PS is restricted to 5x5, but here I use 15x15.
• Level GOTO commands — Used for the password/Garden system and the 'Previous Level' menu option. Without this, the game would be completely linear.
• Transparent sprites — I only really use this for the background darkening when you open the menu, and the shading on the password input cylinder.
• Flickscreen — So that the camera follows the player when they move around the hub
• Custom font — For epitaph messages
• Movement tweens — The slight "slide" animation when things move around

Everything not listed above is achievable with vanilla PuzzleScript.
One of my goals with Reliquia Park was to showcase what can be possible using this engine. If "is this actually a PuzzleScript game?" ever crosses your mind while playing this then I have achieved this goal haha!

For those curious, the source code for this game is just over 19k lines long, has over 370 defined levels, and compiles to ~4300 instructions. Development took over 10 months, including a healthy(?) amount of procrastination, making it my largest project so far by a long shot (EDGE CASE took only a week!).

Sorry to hear that! Feel free to let me know via the comments section below, or Twitter, or Discord, and I'll look into it ASAP :)

Unfortunately I'm unable to add music to a PuzzleScript game. PS used to have the functionality to play a YouTube link in the background as audio, but this broke at some point.

If you want something to listen to while playing, I've curated a Spotify playlist with music that fits the atmosphere I'm going for here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5FAO2jo4HjwRVqlhTMO87B?si=666ee87a56394f41