Gravity Crew

About the game

Gravity Crew hands you a derelict research station, a gravity remote and four survivors who refuse to behave identically. Each room's gravity can be set to any wall; the puzzle is that your crew fall differently — the engineer is heavy and breaks weak floors, the botanist drifts and catches ledges, the cat (the cat is crew, the manual insists) lands anywhere and fears water. Getting all four to the shuttle bay is forty rooms of orchestration.

Rooms are single-screen and hand-authored, and the game's humour is physical: mis-rotate and the crew tumble in four directions with distinct, personality-perfect yelps. Late puzzles chain rotations mid-fall, demanding the kind of spatial reasoning that made the game a cult favourite among engineers and, per a persistent legend, at least one astronaut.

Technical notes

Gravity is per-room, not global — each room simulates independently, letting the Vectra 32 keep physics exact. The cat's pathing famously required its own state machine, twice the size of anyone else's.