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70/100
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80/100
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71/100
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3.79/5
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83% positive318 reviews
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Verified
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Windows, Mac
Price
US$9.99

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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
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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.

Releases by platformdates and regions as published

PlatformReleasedRegions
macOS24 July 2018Worldwide
Windows24 July 2018Worldwide
Nintendo Switch24 July 2018Worldwide

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