Etherborn Reviews

Etherborn is ranked in the 44th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
7.5 / 10.0
Jul 21, 2019

Etherborn is certainly worth a try, although the price tag that is currently attached to the game is too high. 16.99 euros for a game with only five levels is too much of a good thing. Ten euros less would have been a better deal. So if you are looking for a puzzle game with brain teasers and a nice graphic style for that amount of money, then Etherborn is fun to play. Just keep YouTube handy for walkthroughs if you're running out of patience.

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7.3 / 10.0
Jul 18, 2019

Etherborn defies gravity in a very elegant way and in-turn becomes relaxing especially when being accompanied by a pleasant score is placed into the mix. The story feels like one version of plenty that's been done before, pertaining to creation, but it's not necessarily bad. It's just not that engaging. The way Etherborn makes each environment one large puzzle to solve by walking on each of its so-called sides and call for your wits is done nicely. Etherborn is an artistic, environmental puzzle-solving showcase that has class and Altered Matter has expressed their creative talent.

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7 / 10
Jul 18, 2019

Etherborn is well worth checking out if brain teasing is your thing. As it toys with gravity and shifts surfaces to the forefront while you traverse them, mechanics come and go to keep the experience fresh at all times. This environmental puzzler doesn't last particularly long, but it's sure to provide an afternoon's worth of challenge and enjoyment.

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70 / 100
Jul 18, 2019

Etherborn is a charming game with great level design and soundtrack. While the story and character were rather flat the gameplay more than made up for it.

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7 / 10
Jul 18, 2019

Etherborn looks fantastic, sounds incredible and revolves around a brilliant game mechanic that initially feels like it's going to lead to some clever puzzles but ramps things up far too quickly and engulfs you with frustratingly complex stages while you're still trying to find your feet. There's still a great game in there, but you'll need to have the patience of a saint to stumble up its 90-degree difficulty curve to find it.

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Spaziogames
Top Critic
7 / 10.0
Jul 18, 2019

Etherborn is a good puzzle game that plays with the four dimensions, but the story is pointless and sometimes it's hard to read the levels.

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7 / 10.0
Jul 17, 2019

Despite its brevity Etherborn is a gorgeous, well-designed puzzler that provides a challenging and satisfying experience

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Ali Noorbaksh
Top Critic
7 / 10.0
Jul 25, 2019

Etherborn is a nice game with unique art style and valuable puzzles based on gravity and optical illusion. If you are lookeng for a nice Puzzle-Platform game to play. then Etherborn is a good choice for you and it worths your time.

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70 / 100
Aug 8, 2019

With nice visuals and creative challenges, Etherborn is a fun platformer that, despite not delivering its narrative message as well as it could, still deserves the attention of the fans of the genre.

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7 / 10.0
Jul 21, 2019

It has a nice visual style, feels satisfying to solve puzzles, music is nice to ears. But camera angles make puzzles artificially difficult and game itself doesn't last long.

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7 / 10
Jul 17, 2019

The narrative and visual issues aside, the ultimate draw of this game is the complex, wonderful level designs and the intricate puzzles and they mountain over any serious concern I had with the game. Keep your head down and you should be able to crack Etherborn in around 3-4 hours, which is more than enough of this kind of gravity-puzzler for me.

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7 / 10
Jul 18, 2019

A carefully crafted and expertly designed experience full of interesting puzzles.

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Lee Mehr
Top Critic
7 / 10
Aug 17, 2019

Altered Matter’s confection of abstract art, sound, and puzzle design balances increased difficulty with an unspoken delicacy.

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68 / 100
Jul 18, 2019

Etherborn is a creative and occasionally maddening puzzler that will test your brainpower. However, there's not a ton of content here, and the backing narration often comes across as pretentious nonsense.

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6.8 / 10.0
Jul 25, 2019

Etherborn is a satisfying puzzler that has some very cleverly designed enigmas, but unfortunately some awkward gameplay mechanics hold it back a bit. It’s not that anything in the game is bad by any stretch of the imagination, but the loose controls and some samey environments do make solving some puzzles feel a lot less enjoyable than it should be. Fans of puzzlers will definitely have a good time with Etherborn though, so if you fancy taking part in some brain teasers it’s certainly worth checking out. Those who aren’t too keen though might just find themselves getting a little too frustrated with some of the game’s shortcomings.

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Wccftech
Top Critic
6.5 / 10.0
Jul 18, 2019

Etherborn looks nice and has some really interesting puzzles but they are presented in a way that's just a little too slow, not to mention a little too frustrating, to be truly enjoyable.

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6 / 10
Jul 18, 2019

Etherborn is a compelling, gravity-shifting puzzle platformer, but its convoluted plot and limited worlds stop it from being exceptional.

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6 / 10
Jul 18, 2019

Etherborn has so much potential, but its best moments are over far too quickly, leaving little replay value aside from showing people how cool the design is.

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Jul 11, 2019

Etherborn is a short but mostly sweet puzzler that challenges players to defy gravity in order to traverse its M.C. Escher-esque world.

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6 / 10.0
Jul 28, 2019

I enjoyed my time playing Etherborn, but I also didn’t feel anything special while doing so. If you’re really in the mood for a puzzle game, then Etherborn may be worth checking out, but outside of that, you won’t be worse off for skipping it.

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