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Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, iOS, Android, Nintendo Switch, Linux • 2012

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Quick resume

Traverse a mythic little realm, use a sword to do battle & evoke sworcery to solve mystical musical mysteries.

Global score

77/100

Genres

Adventure, Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Point-and-click

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    Pros

    • Unique artistic pixel art
    • Excellent and integral soundtrack
    • Poetic and engaging narrative
    • Innovative use of moon phases
    • Relaxing and immersive atmosphere

    Cons

    • Short gameplay length
    • Slow and repetitive movement
    • Clunky pc controls (designed for touch)
    • Minimal combat depth
    • Some puzzles require trial and error or guides

    Motivations

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Survival, Violence, Fellowship, Expression. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Idle, Survival, Violence.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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