I’m having a bafflingly difficult time trying to find a game. Around a decade ago (~2005~2010), there was a 2D platformer that involved a square maze and you had to rotate the world to alter gravity so that you could get to different areas. I recall there were colored (RGBY) keys and/or buttons to press to unlock doors.
If I recall correctly, the story was something like your sister is trapped in a dream and you need to rescue her from sleep (or maybe you play the sister and have to rescue a brother or something).
I thought it was Grief but it’s not that (it has a similar grayish-blue pallet and some atmosphere like weather/rain but Grief doesn’t involve rotating the world).
I’m fairly sure that the “world” is a cube that you can rotate to access new faces of the “world cube”, but you only play on one side at a time. And gravity is a gameplay mechanic.
I’ve tried searching with numerous permutations of query terms, but have come up empty. 😕 Does anyone know what this game is called?
I’ve mocked up a screenshot:
I tried asking this on the Arqade/Gaming StackExchange site but they closed it because apparently, you’re only allowed to ask game-identification questions if you have a screen of the game and specifically forbid this sort of mock-up. 😒 Most SE sites are becoming more and more useless by forbidding asking questions which was the entire point to them. 🙄
I tried asking various AI chatbots over the past year, but they were not helpful.
I tried again today, hoping Perplexity would be useful since it was just able to identify a YouTuber I was trying to find but other chatbots couldn’t identify. But nope. I tried ChatGPT again, and this time, it GOT IT!!!
It turns out it’s the flash-game Sequester by Armor Games.
It’s not as blue-gray as I remember (that’s probably the game Grief), nor does it seem to have colored-keys (though I DID say “and/or buttons”, and it has colored switches). It also does have weather/rain. And I was right the first time that the story is a little boy dreaming about rescuing his sister.