ZoomOut

ZoomOut is a daily puzzle from Videoludid, a solo independent game studio in France run by Aurélien Defossez. Its first daily level came out on 10 November 2022. Each day's level is a single image from a video game, cropped at first to a small detail: a patch of texture, part of a character, a corner of the interface.

You type the game you think it is, picking it from a list of titles as you type. A wrong guess or a skip zooms the image out to the next step, showing more of the scene, and you have five steps in all. Each level's zoom steps are set by hand by its maker, so every step is meant to add a new clue rather than just a wider view. When the day is over the game shows the answer, how other players did, and often a short Did You Know about the game.

Levels come from the authors and from players, who can build their own in the site's level creator; accepted levels join the queue of future dailies. The archive holds every day since the start, more than 1,400 levels, all free to play. There are no ads and no account is needed.

ZoomOut suits players of GuessThe.Game who like spotting a game from the smallest clue, and anyone who knows the look of a lot of games across the decades.