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Steepest Descent

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Steepest Descent is a single player strategy game with a horror theme. It was developed by Adam Rumpf and was released on October 23, 2020.

Created in 10 days for Scream Jam 2020, hosted by Caveware Digital. See the author's notes for this game here. See the source code for this game here. This is a short horror game based on a well-known analogy from mathematical optimization for describing certain local search algorithms (notably gradient descent and hill climb). If our goal is to minimize the value of a cost function, then we can i…

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Steepest Descent is a strategy game with horror theme. Common tags for Steepest Descent include indie.

Steepest Descent is available on Windows and Linux.

Steepest Descent was released on October 23, 2020.

Steepest Descent was developed by Adam Rumpf.

Steepest Descent is a single player game.

Similar games include SOMBER, PROXIMATE, Happy Lab, Green New Deal Simulator, Divinity and others.