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Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
OpenCritic76IGDB80
Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.
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ShacknewsAsif KhanJul 20189/10Semblance goes beyond the puzzle genre and adds their own special take on platform games.
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DestructoidRich MeisterJul 20189/10In a year with more than a few solid platformers, Semblance still manages to stand out.
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TheSixthAxisJason ColesJul 20189/10Semblance is an astoundingly enjoyable puzzle game that never outstays its welcome.
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Killa PenguinJake AriasJul 20183/10 starsEven the areas that can be bent in significant ways have serious and sometimes baffling limits that force you into one or two envisioned solutions by entirely sabotaging other approaches. There’s nothing inherently wrong with that, of course, as many excellent puzzle games have specific solutions, but where Semblance fails (and does so big time) is that it gives you the impression that you’re being afforded the freedom to come up with your own approach, only to consistently snatch it away from you while the controls undermine you and the simplistic two-tone visuals give you a migraine.
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GamingTrendNathan AnstadtJul 201850/100Semblance lets you deform your platforms to solve puzzles how you want, but it limits your tools so severely that the promise of that idea is wasted on mediocre puzzles. It has a neat look, but like its core mechanic, it wears thin even before you get to the end of your two hour trip through the game.
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IGDB rating 7.5/10 from 17 ratings.
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