Puzzler Semispheres Heading to PC & PS4 This February

Geoffrey Wright | January 17, 2017 | News | No Comments

Vivid Helix have announced that Semispheres will launch on the PS4 and for PC on Steam this February. 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.

As with all puzzle games, they are easy to pick up but can be difficult to master. As gamers we have been programmed to believe that we can only control one “character” at a time with dual analogue sticks. Semispheres takes you out of this comfort zone by assigning 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 skillful 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.

If you fancy the challenge of Semispheres you will not have to wait too long as it is planned to released this February on the PC and PS4 with other platforms to follow later in the year.