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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)
| Language | audio | subtitles | interface |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 Cooperation — Stylized title
DERU.exe — Windows Executable
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Publisher
Released
17 October 2018
Platforms
PCLinuxWindowsMacNintendoSwitch
Age ratings
PEGI3ESRBE
Standing
Top 36% by want to play
Tags
Side view2D scrollingParty gamePlatformDirect control
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