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Game data
Metacritic 88- Released
- 2010-07-21
- User rating
- 4.14 / 5
- Genres
- Adventure, Action, Puzzle, Indie, Platformer
- Platforms
- PC, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, macOS, Linux, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PS Vita
- ESRB
- Teen
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Game details · IGDB
Limbo is a black and white puzzle-platforming adventure. Players take the role of a young boy traveling through an eerie and treacherous world in an attempt to discover the fate of his sister.
- Released
- 2010
- Genres
- Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, Mac, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch
- Game modes
- Single player
- Developer
- Playdead
- Publisher
- Microsoft Game Studios, Playdead
Key facts
- Developer
- Playdead
- Publishers
- Microsoft Game Studios Playdead
- Director
- Arnt Jensen
- Producers
- Dino Patti Mads Wibroe
- Designer
- Jeppe Carlsen
- Programmer
- Thomas Krog
- Artists
- Morten Christian Bramsen Stine Sørensen
- Composer
- Martin Stig Andersen
- Platforms
- Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 Windows OS X Linux Xbox One PlayStation 4 PlayStation Vita Nintendo Switch iOS Android
- Genre
- Puzzle-platform
- Mode
- Single-player
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- limbogame.org
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- publication date
- 2018-06-28
- Commons category
- Limbo (video game)
- title
- Limbo
- review score
- 92/100
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Article
Limbo is a puzzle-platform video game with horror elements developed by independent studio Playdead and originally published by Microsoft Game Studios for the Xbox 360. The game was released on July 2010 on Xbox Live Arcade, and it has since been ported by Playdead to several other systems, including the PlayStation 3, Linux, Android and Microsoft Windows. Limbo is a 2D side-scroller, incorporating a physics system that governs environmental objects and the player character. The player guides an unnamed boy through dangerous environments and traps as he searches for his sister. The developer built the game's puzzles expecting the player to fail before finding the correct solution. Playdead called the style of play "trial and death" and used gruesome imagery for the boy's deaths to steer the player from unworkable solutions.
The game is presented in monochromatic tones, using lighting, film grain effects and minimal ambient sounds to create an eerie atmosphere often associated with the horror genre. Journalists praised the dark presentation, describing the work as comparable to film noir and German Expressionism. Based on its aesthetics, reviewers classified Limbo as an example of video games as an art form.