Gray Light Games
A memory-based puzzle game with a story.
Outage
Outage is a memory-based puzzle game with a story that aims to entertain and challenge you while improving your memory at the same time.
Journey into the world of the Megawatt family, an electrically themed group of energy beings. After leaving Zap behind to search out new sources of power, an energy disaster strands the other Megawatts in the now deactivated Grid. With the help of a sarcastic robot, Zap must re-power the Grid and rescue his family.
Send a probe to reveal a valid path through each level. Repeat this path with few mistakes and be rewarded. As you progress, you will face new and interesting challenges including multiple paths on the same level, teleportation, disappearing grids, draining energy and more!
Send a probe to reveal a valid path through each level. Repeat this path with few mistakes and be rewarded. As you progress, you will face new and interesting challenges including multiple paths on the same level, teleportation, disappearing grids, draining energy and more!
Features
Features
12 different areas each with their own featured game mechanic. As you master each mechanic, the game evolves and forces you to reorient.
Unlimited playtime and lives. Outage is a game where failure is not to be feared! Play at your own pace, gradually learn each level and succeed.
Improve your memory. Get as far as you can, retry the level and watch as your memory improves. You will surprise yourself and realize what an amazing device your brain is!
Unlimited Play
Unlimited Play
Brain Training
Brain Training
Variety
Variety
Engage with a charming, informative story filled with humor and 8 different characters in a unique and original universe. Or skip the story and just play through the puzzles, it’s up to you.
360 levels with varying difficulties keep you entertained and challenged for hours.
Levels are batched so you can choose easy, medium, or hard levels without getting stuck. Challenge yourself or relax, your choice.
Tons of Levels
Tons of Levels
Gated Level Batches
Gated Level Batches
A Story
A Story
All of the sound effects in Outage were made with a mouth and a microphone. In fact, all of the assets in Outage are original and were created with free software.
Plenty of achievements to feed the completionist spirit that dwells inside you.
Informative and interactive tutorial system teaches you how to play, or reference the quick Help section.
Achievements
Achievements
Tutorials
Tutorials
Mouth Sounds and More
Mouth Sounds and More
On Making Outage
When I began to make Outage, I wanted to do an experiment combining some of the engaging elements of older console games with a casual puzzler. Is there a market for casual games with some soul/depth? So I took a simple concept of a new kind of memory maze and added a story told through cutscenes. For players who prefer a more typical casual experience, all of the story elements are skippable and can even be turned off completely.
Another goal I had for Outage was to avoid some of the compulsion based ideas in mobile games today... there is no real-time recharging of energy or lives and there are no paywalls. Players are encouraged to play at their own pace and failure is viewed as part of the learning experience without much punishment. So playing stays healthy and is purely for enjoyment, not because you will earn something in a loot box every hour.