Games

Superliminal

Pillow Castle Games

2019•Puzzle•PEGI 12•About 4 hours

Taste attributes: actionadventurecomedymysteryrobots/ai/spacefresh & originalimaginarysurrealglossybig & variedemotionally undemandingsolving the riddle/not as it seems

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Boxlist takeA larger-than-life puzzle game that is fresh, wide-ranging and polished. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Pace: balanced · Originality: very fresh · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: surreal · Look: glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score

IGDB rating

80 / 100

303 ratings

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About This Game

Falling asleep at 3AM, you close your eyes to the cheesy commercial of Dr. Pierce's dream therapy program. You wake up in an unfamiliar environment, only to realize that you're stuck in a dream - a dream where perception is reality. Welcome to Superliminal. Superliminal is a first-person puzzle game inspired perspective and optical illusions. Players tackle impossible puzzles by thinking outside the box and learning to expect the unexpected. This game features a wonderfully subdued world, an intriguingly voiced narrative, and things that are really weird.

Summary: IGDB

Story

A patient checks into the Pierce Institute to try SomnaSculpt, an experimental dream-therapy technology, and is put to sleep inside a testing environment built within their own dreamworld — a place where reality bends and objects can be reshaped through perspective. When they fail to wake at the appointed time, they find themselves slipping ever deeper through successive layers of dream. Guided over crackling radios by the institute's Dr. Glenn Pierce and prompted by the therapy's automated system, the dreamer must navigate an increasingly surreal and unstable mindscape, searching for their...

Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

ActionAdventureComedyMysteryRobots/ai/spaceSolving the riddle/not as it seems

Keywords

Physics puzzlesPuzzle platformer

Where to play

Details

Developer: Pillow Castle Games
Publishers: Pillow Castle Games, Noodlecake Studios
Released: 12 November 2019
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation 5, Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Co-operative
Perspective: First person
Time to beat: 7h rushed, 4h normally, 13h complete
Age rating: PEGI 12
Taste scores: How we score
Source: IGDB

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