Superliminal makes The Shining into a first-person puzzler

It messes with your head.

If your sense of depth perception is a little skewed, this game is going to be highly relatable for you. Superliminal is a single person puzzle game that makes use of player’s perception. That in itself might not be such a new concept (see, The Witness), but one that allows you to mess with that perception yourself? Now that’s interesting.

We like a game that makes us feel smart and also stupid at the same time, and it looks like Superliminal might just be that perfect combination. Currently available exclusively from the Epic Store, it’s freakishly brightly coloured and also entirely vacant corridors immediately caught our attention. Here, things that seem flat are objects you can bring into 3D being and tiny houses become huge when placed far enough away. Essentially every perception trick you learnt in art as a kid is something you can play with here.

How each puzzle connects in this world is a winding puzzle in itself, as each new solution leads onto another room, another corridor, like becoming stuck within a dream. From the trailer alone, which features a room stacked with alarm clocks urging you to wake up, we know this is going to be more than just a simple puzzle experience. If you’ve always wanted to take a tour of Stanley Kubrick’s mind, this might be the closest you’re going to get.

Superliminal is out now on the Epic Store for PC.