Superliminal is a first-person puzzle game based on forced perspective and optical illusions. Puzzles in this game give you a sense of the unexpected. Players need to change their perspective and think outside the box to wake up from the dream.
WAKE UPAs you fall asleep with the TV on at 3A...
Superliminal is a first-person puzzle game based on forced perspective and optical illusions. Puzzles in this game give you a sense of the unexpected. Players need to change their perspective and think outside the box to wake up from the dream.
WAKE UP
As you fall asleep with the TV on at 3AM, you remember catching a glimpse of the commercial for Dr. Pierce’s Somnasculpt dream therapy program. By the time you open your eyes, you’re already dreaming - beginning the first stages of this experimental program.
PERCEPTION IS REALITY
Explore a dream world where everything is exactly as it seems. Tread carefully as the world slowly unravels around you and subverts your expectations. What you see isn’t always precisely what you get.
MAN VS MACHINE
In this fully-voiced adventure, Dr Glenn Pierce is doing his questionable best to guide you home and out of the dreamscape. His artificial intelligence assistant, however, is having trouble understanding exactly how you’re here at all, and has other plans for you.
DEVELOPER COMMENTARY
We’ve added an extensive developer commentary throughout the game, so you can learn the secrets and history behind the game’s development.
CHALLENGE MODE
The overwhelming response from the speedrunning community to Superliminal inspired us to add a new Challenge Mode, which will score you per-level on metrics such as time to finish, grabs, and jumps.
Even though Superliminal certainly reminded me of the Stanley Parable and Portal, it has very own special charm, and very peculiar mechanics and puzzles that change from one level to another. In the second half, it felt more and more like Alice in Wonderland, with an endless falling down the rabbit hole and with absurd but understandable logic - and it was so admirable!
I enjoyed Superliminal very much, with its clever storytelling, surprising puzzles, and with pretty strong emotions that it brought.
Okay, GOG only has five stars for reviews, but the developers of Superliminal deserve at least 10! I don't know how long it took me to play it, but I've been at it for at least a week, and I was almost sorry that it ended. Not quite sorry, because it can be frustrating at times, but that's the idea after all, so keeping it in perspective, I'd have to add the following: the familiar warning about possible seizures at the beginning should be heeded by those who are so prone; this is NOT an action game, meaning you don't shoot and kill things; it is a walking game, sort of, but the developers are correct in calling it a dreaming game; the graphics are wonderous (I have a very high-end gaming laptop attached to a nice 55" TV) and I used an X-Box controller throughout, without any hiccups; the gameplay is funny and intelligent; the computer voice part of the narration sounds exactly like Lilith from the tv show Fraser and the main voice is very Scottish; and don't give up, no matter how boxed in you are! That said, there are extra modes at the end which I have not yet explored, but I probably will after I give my eyeballs a rest. If this sounds delicious to you, go for it. It's probably on sale and it's more than worth it! If you'd rather kill things, look elsewhere on GOG. There's plenty of everything here for everyone! Thanks to the developers of Subliminal! I had a blast!
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