Refinement
REFINEMENT is a tense, retro-style sorting puzzle set in a creepy 1980s corporate workstation. Your job is to find, group, and sort deteriorating numerical strings before they damage your sector.
Each shift is a race against time and the ongoing decay of the data. Complete your tasks, stabilize the grid, and track your progress.
YOUR DAILY TASKS (CORE GAMEPLAY)
Select Clusters: Click any number on the 5x5 grid to highlight it and all nearby matching numbers.
Zero-Gravity Sort: Drag your floating cluster of numbers down into the correct bins at the bottom of the screen.
Prioritize Low Values: Lower numbers are very important. Sorting out the 1s and 2s helps you meet your quota faster than sorting 8s and 9s!
THE COUNTDOWN (DECAY MECHANIC)
You are under constant pressure from a countdown. Numbers decay in real-time, and the pace picks up as your shift goes on.
If a number decays down to 0, that sector corrupts and starts a chain reaction that damages nearby data. Sort them before the countdown runs out!
The Work is Mysterious & Important...
| Updated | 1 day ago |
| Published | 3 days ago |
| Status | Released |
| Platforms | HTML5 |
| Author | Andrew_Doherty |
| Genre | Puzzle |
| Made with | Three.js |
| Tags | Dystopian, Retro |
| Average session | A few minutes |
| Languages | English |
| Inputs | Mouse |
| Content | No generative AI was used |






Comments
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Huge well done from me, I ended up getting to shift 10. The difficulty progression feels really good.
Well first of all, as a big fan of Severance, I'm sold. This is *really* nicely presented. Incredible amount of polish and character considering the timeframe. Just really, really well done. My favorite so far by a mile!
Love the concept, super fun idea
Legendary, I know another person made a very similar game but this is so cool and I love the visual effects and sound design. The gameplay is also tricky enough under the time pressure to not be boring
I love the visual style and the tactile feel of the gameplay. Well done!
This is definitely a 5 for art!
(I'm second in the leaderboard as of writing this)
Thanks! Think you might need to try get back up the leaderboard lol
AWESOME!!!