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Deru: The Art of Cooperation

17 October 2018E5

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About


In this couch co-op experience two players team up to overcome the boundaries of shadow and light and succeed through teamwork, timing and tactics. Block streams for your partner, juggle your mass to make each other huge for traversing big streams. To succeed you have to communicate and plan together, fuse your brains and bring your co-op gaming skills on the next level.



Deru is more than your usual puzzle game, you need to have dexterity, precision and use strategic planning to reach the exit of each level.



Everybody can join! Friends, family and foes:

  • Enjoy beautiful abstract art while solving mind-bending puzzles
  • Elegance: Simple and easily understandable mechanics create complex and satisfying puzzles
  • Great atmospheric music
  • Multiple worlds packed with many brain twisting riddles
  • Couch Co-op: merge your brains together to overcome the streams and barriers
  • Single Player: Challenge your twin stick skills to tackle the puzzles solo

Cooperate online

Online Co-op: Play DERU online with your friends via Parsec: Read More

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Sound and Music

Michel Barengo created the music and soundscape for the game. A granular exploration of physicality which results in a soundscape in between the digital and real, which has been awarded with the “SUISA Swiss Games Music” prize.

Ways to play

Modes

Single playerMultiplayerCo-operative

Together

Local co-opCo-op campaign

Perspective

Bird view / Isometric

Languages (15)

Languageaudiosubtitlesinterface
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
English
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Polish
Portuguese (Brazil)
Portuguese (Portugal)
Russian
Spanish (Spain)
Thai
Turkish

Also known as

DERU - The Art of CooperationStylized title

DERU.exeWindows Executable

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Facts

Developer

Ink Kit

Publisher

Ink Kit

Released

17 October 2018

Platforms

PCLinuxWindowsMacNintendoSwitch

Age ratings

PEGI3ESRBE

Standing

Top 36% by want to play

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Tags

Side view2D scrollingParty gamePlatformDirect control