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Superliminal

November 12, 2019PuzzleESRB E

Overview

About Superliminal

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.
Story setup
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 own way back to waking life.
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At a glance

Released
November 12, 2019
Platforms
PlayStation 4, iOS, Linux, macOS, Xbox One, Android, PC, Xbox Series X/S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5
Genres
Puzzle, Adventure, Indie, Action
Play modes
Single Player, Multiplayer, Co-op
Age rating
ESRB E
Time to beat
~4 hours
Media

Screenshots

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Playtime

How long to beat

Player-reported completion times for Superliminal.

Rushed
7hoursMain story only
Typical
4hoursStory plus some extras
Completionist
13hoursEvery side objective too

Estimated from 11 player reports — a small sample, so treat these as approximate.

Playing together

Multiplayer & game modes

Superliminal offers various play modes for different gaming experiences.

Play Modes

Single Player • Multiplayer • Co-op

Content

Age ratings

How rating boards around the world have classified Superliminal. Open a board for its content descriptors.

ACBPG
CEROA
CLASS_IND12
ESRBE
  • Mild Blood
GRACALL
  • Violence
  • Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug
  • Fear, Horror, Threatening
PEGI12
  • Fear

This game features scenes that deliberately create a sense of unease. The areas these scenes take place within are dark and moody and the player often encounters jump-scares, such as doors suddenly closing or shadows on walls, as well as eerie sound effects. Scenes such as these may scare young children.

USK6

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