Superliminal, the acclaimed perspective puzzler from developer Pillow Castle, is introducing an “experimental” battle-royale-style multiplayer mode in a free update on Steam next week.
In its original, single-player-only guise, Superliminal took players on a brain-flexing first-person journey through the SomnaSculpt dream therapy programme, in which the environment – and objects within it – could gain hitherto unseen properties by manipulating perspective.
A small wooden cube resting on a table might, for instance, be transformed into a much bigger block – perhaps useful as a means to clamber over a nearby wall – if a player dragged it close to their face and dropped it. Conversely, an awkwardly oversized obstacle could be shrunk into insignificance by doing the reverse. There’s a lot more to it, of course, and Superliminal builds on its core premise cleverly enough to have earned a Recommended badge back in 2019.
Starting next week, however, players will be able to engage in some perspective-shifting puzzle malarky in the company of friends, courtesy of Superliminal’s “experimental” multiplayer update, titled Group Therapy. Somewhat unexpectedly, Pillow Castle is pitching this multiplayer offering as a “forced-perspective battle royale” mode, in which up to 12 players race through randomly generated puzzle rooms – over 8,743,298,954,000 possible level permutations are promised – in a bid to reach the end first. “Just look for the exit signs,” the developer teases, “and watch out for the ducks!”