
80
The forced perspective game mechanic alone makes Superliminal an essential buy for those looking for a new first-person puzzler. Both mind-bogglingly clever and hilarious use of environmental storytelling, the potential to be a classic is limited by its short play time and unnecessary exposition.
70
Superliminal offers unique gameplay elements for a fun evening, but the experience won’t leave an impact. Its perspective features turn out to be more of a novelty or a practical tech demo than a way to create an engaging narrative. While that alone might make it worth giving a try if you’re looking for an interesting experience, the idea of Superliminal works better on paper than in execution.
70
Superliminal is still a really solid puzzle game. Its innovative main mechanic is worth the price of admission alone, with Pillow Castle taking the time to evolve and experiment with the mechanic so no two levels are ever exactly the same. What it lacks in challenge, story, and length it makes up for with its commitment to its perspective-based premise, carving a genuinely fun puzzler that's sure to leave aficionados of the genre satisfied.
6
Entertaining although at times unpolished and frustrating. The story is meh.
7
Superliminal es una paranoia total que te vuela la cabeza. Su magia está en que usa las ilusiones ópticas para que tú mismo "crees" la realidad: si coges un objeto pequeño y lo mueves para que en tu pantalla parezca gigante, al soltarlo se vuelve gigante. Jugar con los tamaños y las distancias para avanzar es una sensación constante de "pero ¿qué acaba de **** un juego corto, pero súper ingenioso, que te obliga a dejar de usar la lógica normal para mirar las cosas desde otro ángulo. No tiene acción ni combates, pero el mensaje que te deja sobre cómo nuestra perspectiva cambia nuestros problemas es de lo mejor. Si te apetece algo que te rompa los esquemas en una ****, es un acierto seguro. Un 7,4.
10
Comforting vibes and lots of tiny little surprises scattered throughout this dream journey. It is a beautiful work of art and genuinely well-crafted series of puzzles that make you question your perspective on everything. I replay with friends and family who have never seen it. Literally, one of my all-time favorite games.
Superliminal
Released On:
Nov 12, 2019
Metascore
Mixed or Average
74
User score
Generally Favorable
7.7
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Aug 13, 2020
90
A surreal trip through an Alice in Wonderland-like dreamscape, Superliminal delights and surprises with level after level of inventive, bizarre puzzles.
Dec 14, 2020
80
The forced perspective game mechanic alone makes Superliminal an essential buy for those looking for a new first-person puzzler. Both mind-bogglingly clever and hilarious use of environmental storytelling, the potential to be a classic is limited by its short play time and unnecessary exposition.
User score
Generally Favorable
66% Positive
338 Ratings
338 Ratings
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141 Ratings
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36 Ratings
Jan 15, 2026
10
Comforting vibes and lots of tiny little surprises scattered throughout this dream journey. It is a beautiful work of art and genuinely well-crafted series of puzzles that make you question your perspective on everything. I replay with friends and family who have never seen it. Literally, one of my all-time favorite games.
Nov 25, 2019
80
Superliminal freshens up the whole puzzle game genre through its unique brain twisters based on weird shenanigans with perspective. You will be fascinated by this game long after you’ve finished its lamentably short story.
Nov 22, 2019
75
When Superliminal’s mechanics work, I felt like I was participating in a magic trick, but when they didn’t I felt like the developers were playing a trick on me. I was both amused and frustrated while playing Superliminal, but didn’t think much about the game after its credit’s rolled. Like a fading dream, Superliminal is also a bit ephemeral.
Nov 25, 2020
70
Superliminal is still a really solid puzzle game. Its innovative main mechanic is worth the price of admission alone, with Pillow Castle taking the time to evolve and experiment with the mechanic so no two levels are ever exactly the same. What it lacks in challenge, story, and length it makes up for with its commitment to its perspective-based premise, carving a genuinely fun puzzler that's sure to leave aficionados of the genre satisfied.
Nov 12, 2019
70
Superliminal is fun. It may not be challenging, and it might not have a deeper message behind it, but it’s a hell of a ride – and on many levels it’s a technical masterpiece. Actually that description makes it sound like a Marvel film, so I guess that means I can recommend it to pretty much anyone unless you’re Martin Scorsese or Francis Ford Coppola.
Apr 19, 2020
47
A soulless Portal copycat built around a cool gameplay mechanic, which would have flourished in a game by Double Fine or Valve. Superliminal has more originality than other copycats (see The Bradwell Conspiracy), but it’s absolutely devoid of substance and leaves you indifferent.
Oct 10, 2025
10
Superliminal is an incredible puzzle game, maybe even better than Portal series, with using the perspective & visible size to edit angle an the actual size of every item you can, and philosophical meaning of our point of view.
Jan 21, 2026
7
Superliminal es una paranoia total que te vuela la cabeza. Su magia está en que usa las ilusiones ópticas para que tú mismo "crees" la realidad: si coges un objeto pequeño y lo mueves para que en tu pantalla parezca gigante, al soltarlo se vuelve gigante. Jugar con los tamaños y las distancias para avanzar es una sensación constante de "pero ¿qué acaba de **** un juego corto, pero súper ingenioso, que te obliga a dejar de usar la lógica normal para mirar las cosas desde otro ángulo. No tiene acción ni combates, pero el mensaje que te deja sobre cómo nuestra perspectiva cambia nuestros problemas es de lo mejor. Si te apetece algo que te rompa los esquemas en una ****, es un acierto seguro. Un 7,4.
May 17, 2025
7
This game is puzzly type of games , its not that bad or good . Its a little bit complicated , like take the object and look upwards to makeit bigger ,its worth playing and finish it , but i do not recommend you to play it on xbox or ps , because its 30 fps
Dec 29, 2021
3
Superliminal is a walking simulator pretending to be a puzzle game. The game does have puzzles, but most of them are either mind-numbingly easy or so obtuse you will be annoyed at the game when you figure out the solution rather than amazed. The last half of the game has so few puzzles and essentially you holding the W key for most of the time. The problem is two fold, the marketing showed this as a puzzle game not a walking simulator with a story, but on top of that the story is incredibly boring.
Jan 5, 2021
3
I wish I could say that this game was good, but after playing it I have to say otherwise. The problem is it's not much of a puzzle game. The only times I got stumped were the ones where I was stuck in a room until I figured out what object to pick up. Some puzzles got me excited (like one with a fan), but the solution was so mind-numbingly easy it was like it was negating there being a puzzle in the first place. For the most part, this is a walking simulator (especially the last third of the game, which is the worst part and just feels like a slog). However, the story isn't interesting enough to make up for it. I ended up extremely bored for the majority of my time with the game. The best parts of the game (for me at least) were chapters 3, 5, and 6, because they at least seemed to try to have puzzles or be like a normal puzzle game in any way. Unfortunately, they still fall play to the problem of insultingly easy and sometimes almost non-existent puzzles. Even worse, the game only took me 2 hours, and that's with struggling on a few rooms for a while (again, not because there was a hard puzzle that I couldn't solve, but because I couldn't find the random object that I needed to pick up to move on). It's definitely not worth $23 CAD, and in my opinion, it's not even worth the $15 I got it for. Buy this game if you want to walk in a straight line and resize boxes for 2 hours. Otherwise, look elsewhere.
SummaryPerception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you explore a surreal dream world and solve impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.





























