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Samsara Deluxe

Released: 12/31/2018

While playing in the park, Zee follows a squirrel through a portal to a world of echoes, inhabited by a shadow child. Surrounded by the unknown and trapped in a series of realms both confusing and dangerous, the youngsters must avoid slipping into the pool between dimensions, embarking on a voyage of discovery and awakening they share with the player, up and down staircases, through light and dark, across the upside-down and the right side-up to their eventual freedom. FEATURES: - Explore the reflected dimensions of the original Samsara’s 77 levels across 6 hand-detailed realms - Deluxe content: New first to Nintendo Switch content with an additional 24 levels, new block type and one new realm. - Simple play mechanic – choose, rotate and drop blocks and utilize their reflections - Carefully paced advancement, new concepts introduced progressively - Blocks must be both balanced and will respond to gravity, falling towards the pool between the two dimensions, allowing asymmetric placements… - …Although later in the game, new types of block reflections may behave “unusually” under gravity - Environmental interaction includes falling stones, and thorns which grow on contact with Zee’s echo but shrivel at Zee’s own touch, allowing timed block movements to be set up - Crafted with love by a team of experienced developers in New Zealand, featuring innovative puzzle design and a unique art and animation style

While playing in the park, Zee follows a squirrel through a portal to a world of echoes, inhabited by a shadow child. Surrounded by the unknown and trapped in a series of realms both confusing and dangerous, the youngsters must avoid slipping into the pool between dimensions, embarking on a voyage of discovery and awakening they share with the player, up and down staircases, through light and dark, across the upside-down and the right side-up to their eventual freedom. FEATURES: - Explore the reflected dimensions of the original Samsara’s 77 levels across 6 hand-detailed realms - Deluxe content: New first to Nintendo Switch content with an additional 24 levels, new block type and one new realm. - Simple play mechanic – choose, rotate and drop blocks and utilize their reflections - Carefully paced advancement, new concepts introduced progressively - Blocks must be both balanced and will respond to gravity, falling towards the pool between the two dimensions, allowing asymmetric placements… - …Although later in the game, new types of block reflections may behave “unusually” under gravity - Environmental interaction includes falling stones, and thorns which grow on contact with Zee’s echo but shrivel at Zee’s own touch, allowing timed block movements to be set up - Crafted with love by a team of experienced developers in New Zealand, featuring innovative puzzle design and a unique art and animation style

While playing in the park, Zee follows a squirrel through a portal to a world of echoes, inhabited by a shadow child. Surrounded by the unknown and trapped in a series of realms both confusing and dangerous, the youngsters must avoid slipping into the pool between dimensions, embarking on a voyage of discovery and awakening they share with the player, up and down staircases, through light and dark, across the upside-down and the right side-up to their eventual freedom. FEATURES: - Explore the reflected dimensions of the original Samsara’s 77 levels across 6 hand-detailed realms - Deluxe content: New first to Nintendo Switch content with an additional 24 levels, new block type and one new realm. - Simple play mechanic – choose, rotate and drop blocks and utilize their reflections - Carefully paced advancement, new concepts introduced progressively - Blocks must be both balanced and will respond to gravity, falling towards the pool between the two dimensions, allowing asymmetric placements… - …Although later in the game, new types of block reflections may behave “unusually” under gravity - Environmental interaction includes falling stones, and thorns which grow on contact with Zee’s echo but shrivel at Zee’s own touch, allowing timed block movements to be set up - Crafted with love by a team of experienced developers in New Zealand, featuring innovative puzzle design and a unique art and animation style

Critics
62

Score Breakdown

62.0

Critic Average

5 reviews

N/A

Steam User Score

Less than 50 reviews

N/A

Metacritic User Score

Less than 20 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
N/A
Metacritic Disparity
N/A
Combined Disparity
N/A

Average of both sources

Review Timing

4 launch window (80%)1 late (20%)