
- 70/100
- Players13 ratings
- 80/100
- Critics4 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic11 critic reviews
- 79/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 71/100
- GameFAQsJust Right-Tough
- 3.79/5
- Player reviews
- 83% positive318 reviews
- Steam Deck
- Verified
- Runs on
- Windows, Mac
- Price
- US$9.99
Where to get it

2018 · Adventure · Indie
Semblance
Nintendo console exclusive
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.
- Released
- 2018
- Platforms
- Nintendo SwitchWindowsmacOS
- Genres
- AdventureIndiePlatformerPuzzle
- Developers
- —
- Publishers
- Good Shepherd Entertainment
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Themes
- Action
- Country
- South Africa
- Age ratings
- ESRB EPEGI 3CERO A
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Russian
- Time to beat
- 4hmain story5hcompletionist
About
Semblance is a 2018 puzzle-platform game developed by South African studio Nyamakop and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. It was released on 24 July 2018 for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Nintendo Switch.
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Gameplay
Semblance is a 2D platform game where the player can deform parts of the platforms, which are made out of Play-Doh. Through a disaster, the blob-like creature the player controls the world of hardness that has infected the normally soft world. The deforming terrain enables the player to avoid dangerous obstacles and reach higher places.
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