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Semispheres

Below is a video showing the first 16 minutes of Semispheres on the Switch. Made by Vivid Helix, Semispheres is a puzzle game about dual realities.

The game releases on the Switch eShop on September 14th.

Vivid Helix officially announced today that its “meditative parallel puzzle game” Semispheres is coming to Switch next week. The game will be available on September 14 in both North America and Europe.

Here’s an overview:

Semispheres is a beautiful, 2D puzzle game, with a gorgeous, synth-led soundtrack by Sid Barnhoorn, composer of Antichamber and The Stanley Parable, that places dual realities at the heart of its challenge. Featuring a bichromatic art style comprised of warm blues and oranges, it’s a game that seeks to reunite two parallel worlds.

In Semispheres, each analogue stick controls a different avatar in environments that might initially appear identical but reveal profound differences crucial to progression. Portals allow the avatars to enter each other’s reality, creating fiendishly complex inter-dimensional puzzles, with success reliant on methodical planning and skilful execution. It’s not all esoteric brain workouts, though. Tension is introduced through the sentries that guard these worlds, whose fields of vision you must evade in order to find safe passage and the eventual resynchronisation of the worlds.

With fiendish puzzles that escalate in complexity, Semispheres presents a real challenge for both puzzle aficionados and newcomers to the genre alike. Yet the game’s beautiful audio and visual presentation ensure things never get too much, making it as soothing an experience as it is challenging.

Watch the Switch launch trailer for Semispheres below.

Source: Vivid Helix PR

Semispheres is heading to Switch, a listing on the European eShop reveals. The store lists a tentative release date of September 13.

Semispheres is a puzzle game that originally debuted in 2016. We’ve included an official overview and a trailer below.


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