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Kalimba

A shaman has plunged the island of Kalimba into darkness, and your totems travel from the underworld toward the heavens to restore its light. The game is a puzzle-platformer focused on navigating its stages rather than telling a detailed story. In solo play, you control two totems at once. They move together across separate paths, and you can switch their positions or stack them to reach higher places. Levels add mechanics such as altered gravity, size changes, gliding, color-specific platforms, and environmental hazards. The campaign introduces abilities over successive levels and combines them into increasingly involved challenges, with collectibles, boss encounters, and hidden challenge rooms along the way. Local co-op offers a separate set of levels in which two players divide control of the totems.

Guide two totems through shifting platform puzzles, using shared movement, gravity changes, and other abilities to restore light.

Released 22 Apr 2015

90%positive of
685 player reviews
$9.99
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Control Two Totems

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Stack for Higher Jumps

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Flip Gravity

Jump, switch and fly your way through mind-bending subterranean puzzles in this stunning new platforming adventure from the award-winning Press Play!

Developed by Press Play · Published by Xbox Game Studios

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Common Player Critiques

  1. Steep Difficulty
  2. Precision Demands
  3. Hardware Lockups
90%
positive of 685 player reviews
81/100
Metacritic

Awards & Kudos

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Back of the Box

Platforms Windows
Steam Deck Verified
Achievements 41
Age ratings
  • ESRB E — Tobacco Reference
  • PEGI 7 — Violence
  • USK 6
  • CERO A
  • CRL 6
  • CSRR P6
  • ClassInd (Brazil) L
  • KGRB ALL
  • NZOFLC G
  • OFLC G
Controller support Xbox
Controller required No
DLC / extras 2 listed on Steam
Content notices
  • Tobacco Reference
  • Age rating for: ESRB
Metacritic 81/100 View on Metacritic
Website Official website

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