Underplayed Gems

Samsara: Deluxe Edition (2019)

Samsara: Deluxe Edition cover
Developer
Marker
Platforms
Nintendo Switch
Genres
Puzzle, Strategy, Indie
Where to get it
Nintendo eShop

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How it feels

A quiet, thoughtful puzzle journey where you gently guide a child through surreal, echo-filled realms, balancing light and dark with careful observation.

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About

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. Samsara is a beautiful, reflective puzzle game set in a world of echoes where players guide a child safely to the exit by dropping blocks of different shapes and properties into a world of two dimensions split by a pool. Simple mechanics conceal complex interactions involving gravity, balance, redirection and teleportation, with a twist: everything added in the upside down world below reflects in the world above.

Screenshots

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