Semblance
Fair · Action · 2018
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.9h 4.8h to 100%
- Value
- $2.56/hr
- Reviews
- 85% of 404 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $0.99 (90% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Semblance is an innovative platformer with deformable terrain, set in a beautiful minimalist world. It’s a game that asks, what if you could deform and reshape the world itself? Semblance takes the idea of a ‘platform’ in a platformer and turns it on its head.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, ATi Radeon HD 2400 or NVIDIA GeForce 7600 or better, 2.6 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
It has been discounted 53 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 85 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 89 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Pikuniku ($12.99, scores 76) beats it on value, while it beats Pinstripe ($14.99, scores 49).
More about Semblance
This site sampled 238 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to July 2026.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 3.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
55% start to 6% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Really fun non-combat puzzle game platformer with interesting mechanics. The learning curve isn't very steep, and I like that we're always introduced to any new mechanics with some simple puzzles first before progressing in difficulty. I greatly appreciate when there aren't any combat aspects to a game, and the fact that dying doesn't actually matter here. If you mess up, you can always reset your squish and the...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Play as gelatinous creature and bend terrain to your will. Puzzles are interesting enough and makes you put your grey cells in motion. To complete some challenges you have to think outside the box. Not every terrain can be morphed and you can revert any changes you made. Story tells about organic and crystal like lifeforms and how they coexisted however something changed. Soundtrack is deep. Visuals are simple but...
It really pains me to leave a negative review to such an original idea for a game. But in the end, this is all that remains. An original idea and nothing more. The execution of it leaves much to be desired. The whole premise of the game is really cool and interesting. A deformable platformer . Platforms that can be reshaped in order to gain an advantage, solve puzzles which seem impossible at first glance and even...
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Cite this score
Semblance scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/700160/semblanceReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.