Ruthless bird versus bird action. Wild animals and the artefacts of a mysterious ancient culture. A game full of challenge and discovery – unlike anything you've played before. Players gave Secrets of Rætikon a 60% positive score. Released April 17, 2014. Top tags include Animals, Nature, Metroidvania, Indie, Adventure, Action, Puzzle, Exploration, Open World, and Flight.
Ruthless bird versus bird action. Wild animals and the artefacts of a mysterious ancient culture. A game full of challenge and discovery – unlike anything you've played before.
Developed by Broken Rules · Published by Broken Rules
Player Review Breakdown
Secrets of Rætikon has about 296 positive and 198 negative player reviews out of a total 494. We'll add a detailed breakdown here when there are more reviews.
60%
positive of 494 player reviews
Full Game Details
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Ruthless bird versus bird action. Wild animals and the artefacts of a mysterious ancient culture. A game full of challenge and discovery – unlike anything you've played before.
Secrets of Raetikon
You find yourself alone in the mountains of the Alps. Discover strange contraptions, wild animals and the mysteries of an ancient culture. Uncover the Secrets of Rætikon in an atmospheric, open-world 2D game in which you fly like a bird and explore an uncharted world.
Secrets of Rætikon is an action-focussed exploration game with an open world. Fly through the savage mountains of the Alps and collect parts of ancient machines. The world is rich in interactivity. Trees, rocks, plants and animals – everything is physics based and can be grabbed and dragged around.
Hostile animals protect their habitats and interact with you as well as each other. Use this ecosystem to your advantage: drag a bird of prey to another predator and they attack each other; grab a robin and feed it to a buzzard – it will attack the poor bird instead of you; defend yourself by wielding spiked plants or by pushing foes into thornbushes.
Steam Workshop integration
Secrets of Rætikon sports a full-featured level editor. You can edit every level that comes with the game or create all new levels. Levels can be shared over Steam Workshop. There is a physics sandbox that allows you to build toys or even new games. This is the same editor we use to build the game itself. It will be continuously developed for as long as we work on the game.
Awards & Kudos
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Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux
Achievements
19
Age ratings
ClassInd (Brazil) 6 — Violência fantasiosa
IGRS (Indonesia) 13 — Kekerasan
Steam (Germany) 6 — Fantasy-Gewalt
Controller support
Xbox
Controller required
No
DRM / EULA
Requires agreement to a 3rd-party EULA Secrets of Rætikon EULA