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Semblance (video game)

2018 video game

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ39070146 ↗
Source-derived summary

Semblance is a 2018 puzzle-platform game developed by South African studio Nyamakop and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment. It was released on 24 July 2018 for Microsoft Windows, OS X and Nintendo Switch.

Gameplay

Semblance is a 2D platform game where the player can deform parts of the platforms, which are made out of Play-Doh. Through a disaster, the blob-like creature the player controls the world of hardness that has infected the normally soft world. The deforming terrain enables the player to avoid dangerous obstacles and reach higher places.

Release

The game was released on 24 July 2018.

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“Semblance (video game)” enters the record as 2018 video game. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Semblance, video and game can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Semblance (video game)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.