Instauratio Exiguus is an alt-ctrl puzzle that explores repetition and contemplative practice.

It is a minimal, contemplative, alt.ctrl game where players use a hand-made, synth-like controller to find the correct locations for on-screen pixels. Subtle visual and sonic cues help to guide the player. As these pixels are moved to their correct locations, they create unique constellations. The creation of these constellations resolves obfuscated abstract content on the screen, revealing texts from Søren Kierkegaard's essay Repetition. Once the image is fully uncovered, the player is given the opportunity to read the text before the whole image shrinks back down to the single white dot, offering them the opportunity to undergo the activity again. Through this repetitive act of finding, listening, observing, and reflecting, the player is invited into a more contemplative form of play, a play that is guided by them, where there is no discrete ending or win-state.