Etherborn

Etherborn

Released Jul 2019

Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.

76% positive · 457 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Etherborn launched on July 18, 2019 as a complete, self-contained puzzle platformer. The developer, Altered Matter, communicated at launch that the game was finished — a May 2019 update explicitly noted "we have actually completed the game." Post-launch, the team shipped two maintenance patches (1.0.2 in October 2019 and 1.0.3 in June 2020) addressing bug fixes, localization improvements, and quality-of-life changes. The last of these patches on June 1, 2020 represents the final developer communication from Altered Matter about the game itself. The only DLC ever listed are a soundtrack and digital artbook, both released on launch day — there are no unreleased DLC entries and no announcements of future content. The publisher, Akupara Games, posted a birthday sale promotion on October 4, 2024, but this is a routine publisher marketing event with no new development information from Altered Matter. The game shipped as a complete narrative experience with no post-launch content roadmap, no season pass, and no live service elements. Development concluded with the 1.0.3 patch in June 2020.
Evidence
Etherborn launched as a complete product with no roadmap or future content announcements.
news post · Jul 18, 2019 source content shipped
high
Developer explicitly stated 'we have actually completed the game' ahead of launch, confirming no further content was in development beyond the base game.
news post · May 28, 2019 source development ending
high

Content

2 of 2 released · no outstanding content
Released
Jul 2019
Released
Jul 2019

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Akupara Games
Achievements
13
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

Etherborn is an elegant leap in the gravity-puzzle genre; an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures.

You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. As your first thoughts emerge, you realise your journey has just begun. You must reach this ethereal voice to fully understand your own existence.

In this world, the laws of physics behave in a way that will bend your imagination. You experience gravity perpendicular to the surface you are standing on, allowing for creative exploration possibilities in environments carefully crafted as navigation-based puzzles.

Travel through beautiful and exotic sceneries where each level is an organic puzzle that you need to explore, manipulate and shift your gravity on in order to decipher the way forward.

This game is best played with a gamepad.

Etherborn is available in these languages: English (audio and text), Spanish (audio and text), Catalan (audio and text), German (text), French (text), Italian (text), Russian (text), Japanese (text), Simplified Chinese (text), Korean (text).

Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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