Cocoon

Worlds carried inside worlds as portable orbs, nesting puzzle spaces recursively.

Released 2023 Developer Geometric Interactive Publisher Annapurna Interactive Platform PC Genre Puzzle Era Live service & the long tail

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Cocoon inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Hub-and-Spoke World Access ~~1996~~Non-Euclidean Portal Space ~~2007~~Diegetic HUD-less Interface ~~2008~~

Descends from

Inside ~~2016~~

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