Separation

 PlayStation 4
Metascore
59

Mixed or average reviews - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 9 out of 11
  3. Negative: 2 out of 11
  1. DarkStation
    Apr 10, 2020
    40
    Separation is an apt title to illuminate its central problem. The adventure beckons you to experience a desolate world, utilize a VR headset, tingle your sensory stimuli in a way you can almost touch, and engage with a narrative tackling uncomfortable emotions. But, despite this magical potential, all of the accumulated shortcomings reveal the integral quality it sorely lacks: authentic connection.
  2. UploadVR
    Mar 3, 2020
    40
    Separation is a game with something to say, it just spends too long trying to say it. While I wanted to fall for its wistful mountain climbs and poignant canyon descents, I became too frustrated with its tedious core treasure hunt to stop and pay its wider implications much mind. I suspect that some will make those connections, lost in the game’s alluring fog, but many more will be done with this pilgrimage long before it’s over.

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User Score
5.1

Mixed or average reviews- based on 19 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 19
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 19
  3. Negative: 9 out of 19
  1. DF88476
    Jan 20, 2023
    10
    Separation is akin to video games what 2001: A Space Odyssey is to movies. While some will try it and quickly decide it's slow and boring,Separation is akin to video games what 2001: A Space Odyssey is to movies. While some will try it and quickly decide it's slow and boring, others will find themselves lost in its beauty and desolation. It is perfect for VR in that it is more of a personal journey/experience with game elements. It has an amazing synth score and the wind swept sounds as you ascend high mountains, or float over them, are perfect. All along you are spurred along by a strange whispering that seems to follow you. Finally, it's topped off by an ending that is as haunting as it is ineffable.… Full Review »
  2. zencube
    Apr 29, 2020
    6
    The most astonishing fact about this game, is that it was made by one person (beside the music). And the most disappointing fact are theThe most astonishing fact about this game, is that it was made by one person (beside the music). And the most disappointing fact are the graphics, which could be from the midst 90s. If not played in VR-Mode, I couldn't recommend it at all, as on a flat 2D-Screen there is actually no reason to play this. Even in VR-Mode, the immersion lacks quite often as the absence of details and bold, blurry visuals ruin everything.

    Unfortunately, really, what the maker tries to build up is awesome, sound/music is great, but it's just like a raw version of what this should have become and in the end I really had to force myself to finish it. I can only recommend to wait when it's on sale - as a tryout, it's certainly overpriced for what it delivers at the moment.    … Full Review »
  3. arkien
    Mar 11, 2020
    10
    A beautiful game, hard to understand without knowing the creator story but so immersive... The music is fantastic and it's a pleasure to liveA beautiful game, hard to understand without knowing the creator story but so immersive... The music is fantastic and it's a pleasure to live it from beginning to the end. This bad user score (3 negatives from nowhere) is undeserved.… Full Review »
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