The path
She doesn't choose the way
Nothing is explained, because nothing needs to be. Some stretches climb, some drop, most just run on. Limbo decides; she only times the jumps.
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Tiny Spirit. Run. Jump.
Tiny Spirit. Run. Jump.
Follow the light.
A small spirit runs and jumps her way through limbo, wherever the path leads, after a light that has never once waited for her.
How it works
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Run
Hold the left side to push her faster. It changes her speed, not which way she's going — that's already decided for her.
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Jump
Tap the right side for one jump. It still lands a beat after you leave a ledge, so don't panic the instant your foot lifts.
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Use the ledges
Limbo comes with somewhere to land. Not many places, and not for very long, but they're there.
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Follow the light
It's the only direction the game gives you. It also moves, which is the part that turns a direction into a trial.
Limbo
The light
It keeps moving
Reaching it isn't really the point, which is the sort of thing only a game set in limbo gets to say with a straight face.
What it isn't
- A story
- There's no plot to follow and no one to rescue. She keeps moving. That's the arc.
- A tutorial
- You have two inputs. Twelve minutes of instruction would be twelve minutes of padding.
- Endless
- Twenty-seven levels, and the twenty-seventh ends. Limbo turns out to be finite; it just doesn't hurry you through it.
- In a hurry
- It's a game about a path that isn't yours to choose. Rushing it rather misses the room.
Get it
Tiny Spirit is free, and twenty-seven levels long. Limbo is finite after all.
Each level keeps your best time, so there's a reason to go back without anything to fall behind on. Play it in your browser for the current version; the App Store listing is the 2015 original. Put it down whenever. Limbo will keep.
- Genre
- Platformer
- Platforms
- Web, iPhone, iPad
- Price
- Free