Samsara

Samsara is a puzzle game in which you help Zee escape a realm made up of two mirrored dimensions. While playing in a park, Zee follows a squirrel through a portal into a world of echoes, where a shadow child lives. Trapped in a series of confusing and dangerous realms, the two youngsters must avoid falling into the pool between dimensions as they journey toward freedom.

The mirrored realms

You travel through light and dark, up and down staircases, and across upside-down and right-side-up spaces. The game has 77 levels across six hand-detailed realms, each with hidden Easter eggs. New concepts are introduced progressively as you advance.

Place and reflect blocks

You choose, rotate and drop blocks, using their reflections to solve puzzles. Blocks must be balanced and respond to gravity, falling toward the pool between the dimensions; this allows you to make asymmetric placements. Later in the game, some new types of block reflections behave unusually under gravity.

Use the environment

Environmental elements can help you plan your moves. Falling stones and thorns affect how you place blocks: thorns grow when Zee’s echo touches them, but shrivel when Zee touches them, allowing you to set up timed block movements.