Superliminal
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Falling asleep at 3AM, you close your eyes to the cheesy commercial of Dr. Pierce's dream therapy program. You wake up in an unfamiliar environment, only to realize that you're stuck in a dream - a dream where perception is reality. Welcome to Superliminal. Superliminal is a first-person puzzle game inspired perspective and optical illusions. Players tackle impossible puzzles by thinking outside the box and learning to expect the unexpected. This game features a wonderfully subdued world, an intriguingly voiced narrative, and things that are really weird.
Superliminal is a first-person puzzle game built on forced perspective: pick up an object and its real size depends on how big it looks, so a tiny block held close becomes a giant ramp when you drop it. You wander a dreamlike therapy-programme testing facility solving increasingly surreal spatial puzzles. About 2-4 hours.
Wake Up (beat the game) is the only true story achievement; everything else is optional. There's a running fire-alarm-and-extinguisher gag, a clutch of environmental one-offs (drop a soda into the right bin, put an apple on your head), and the collectible hunts - the hidden chess pieces (Chess Master, feeding the Kasparov Deep Blue puzzle), the blueprints (Feeling Blue - the "blue" is a pun, it's blueprints not chess), and the constellations (Stars Align). The speed runs (under an hour, under 30 minutes) and Challenge Mode round it out, plus a few Workshop-related ones. Level select means the level-specific ones are recoverable.
FAQ
- Are there missable achievements in Superliminal?
- No, but 5 are soft-missable or mutually exclusive: Please Use Other Door, Son of Man, Stars Align, Feeling Blue and Chess Master.
- Are there glitched achievements in Superliminal?
- No.
Fire Alarmist
Common67.5%Pull one fire alarm
Pull any single fire alarm.
Expert Fire Alarmist
Common47.0%Pull enough fire alarms
Pull 10 fire alarms in total.
Wake Up
Uncommon36.6%Beat the game
Finish the main story (all nine levels).
Sugar Crash
Uncommon32.7%Break a soda can
Drop a soda can from high enough to burst it.
Please Use Other Door
Uncommon30.0%Find the nook in Optical
Level 2 (Optical): use the cyan king piece and a box to climb into the floating wall door - the nook.
Son of Man
Uncommon28.4%An apple for a head
Level 5 (Clone): clone a green apple until a clone lands on your head - a nod to the Magritte painting "The Son of Man".
Why Are You Like This?
Uncommon27.0%Clone an object way too many times
Clone a single object 207 times.
Please Recycle
Uncommon18.6%Put a soda can in the wrong place instead of recycling
Put a soda can in an ordinary bin next to the recycling bin (in the reception room).
Take Your Trash Elsewhere
Uncommon13.3%Fail at throwing away trash
Put any object into an ordinary trash can.
Soda Connaisseur
Uncommon11.9%Drink all sodas
Get one of each drink type from the Dream Soda vending machines.
Environment Saved!
Uncommon11.4%Place a soda can in a recycling bin
Drop a soda can into the blue recycling bin (reception room).
Vaguely Activated Achievement
Rare5.1%Congratulations on doing something!
Hold any object, stay perfectly still, for about two and a half minutes.
Speed Runner
Very rare2.5%Beat the game in under an hour
Beat the game in under 60 minutes.
Dream within a Dream
Very rare2.3%Play someone else's dream
Load and play a user-made dream from the SomnaSculpt Workshop.
Biggest Fan
Very rare1.5%Finish the game with developer commentary enabled
Finish the whole game with Developer Commentary enabled.
Stars Align
Very rare1.4%Complete all constellations
In each constellation room, stand on the correct spot so the stars align into the picture, then click the object - do this in every constellation room.
Polite Recognition
Very rare1.4%Find the hidden trophy
After beating the game, click the "Exit" sign on the results screen, enter the room and grab the trophy.
Feeling Blue
Very rare1.3%Find all blueprints
Find and click every hidden blueprint. Note the pun - this is a blueprints achievement, not chess.
Chess Master
Very rare1.3%Find all secret chess pieces
Collect all 15 hidden coloured chess pieces across the levels - the prerequisite for Kasparov.
Contraband
Very rare1.3%Import a 3D model into the game
Menu, Extra Modes, SomnaSculpt Workshop, "Import Model" at the water cooler - import a .obj 3D model into the game.
Kasparov
Very rare1.2%Make the last move
After Chess Master, in Optical click the reception computer monitor to teleport to Pierce's office; the chessboard recreates the 1996 Kasparov vs Deep Blue final position. Move the pawn beside the king off, then slide the blue rook onto that square (Rxh7+) - black resigns.
Fire Safety Achieved
Very rare1.1%Pull all the fire alarms
Pull every fire alarm in the game.
Fires Extinguished
Very rare1.1%Empty all fire extinguishers
Empty every fire extinguisher (each takes about three interactions to drain).
Mindful
Ultra rare0.9%Finish all challenges in Challenge Mode
Complete every challenge in Challenge Mode.
Superluminal
Ultra rare0.9%Beat the game in under 35 minutes
A speedrun - much easier on a second playthrough once you know every puzzle's solution. Beeline each solution, skip the optional messing about and any skippable dialogue/cutscenes, and don't linger. The game's short, so with the routes memorised sub-30 is comfortable.
Dream Sculptor
Ultra rare0.9%Upload a dream to the workshop
Build a custom dream in SomnaSculpt and publish it to the Steam Workshop.
Dr. Pierce's Protege
Ultra rare0.7%Contribute an item to the Workshop
After importing a model, place it on the button in the adjacent room and upload it to the Workshop.
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