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Degrees of Separation
Degrees of Separation is a puzzle platformer where cooperation is built into every move. Two contrasting souls, Ember and Rime, fall in love, but are separated by an enigmatic force, and must use their powers to progress through a spectacular world of fantasy and adventure.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“Degrees of Separation A beautiful and challenging puzzle game with plenty of variety and clever mechanics to keep you interested and perplexed. Curator Info: Follow our curator page: OCG-Curations and IndieGems if you like and want to see more reviews like this one. Positives 👍…”
— a player, Steam review · 26 hrs played“Played this with a friend via Parsec (software to enable local co-op games to be played through internet). It was a pretty good experience but we both felt like the game was more drawn out than it needed to be and a number of the puzzles were either rehashed or had clunky…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“At first, this game seemed like a hidden gem. The concept is solid, and the mechanics feel fun—for a while. But then you realize you're just doing the same thing over and over, and it quickly turns into a mindless grind. The novelty wears off fast, and instead of feeling…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Degrees of Separation - Valentine's Day Sale
This Valentine's, experience a game of logic and love, featuring local and online co-op. Buy Degrees of Separation at a SPECIAL PROMOTIONAL PRICE at 85% off. Offer ends February 18.
Steam Award Nominations 2019!
The Steam Autumn Sale has begun, and so has the 2019 Steam Award Nominations! This year, the community is given the opportunity to choose the categories to nominate Degrees of Separation! While we hig
Degrees of Separation online multiplayer is now available!
Degrees of Separation version 1.2 is now live. Content includes online functionality, general bug fixes and stability improvements. Players will be able to take their existing save files online to pla
Patch Notes - March 11
The game has been updated to fix issues regarding playing co-op on a keyboard or when playing with a controller+keyboard combo. An important note is that "player 1" and "player 2" use different keys o
Online Co-op
Greetings everyone! Happy Valentine's Day! We are more than happy that the DoS launch is finally here! We know many of you are excited for our online co-op feature, and so are we! We’re working on a p
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Adventure, Casual, Indie |
| Player tags | Local Co-Op · Puzzle-Platformer · 2D Platformer · Story Rich · Co-op · Online Co-Op · Puzzle · Side Scroller · Platformer · Difficult · Atmospheric · Romance (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Norwegian, Portuguese - Brazil * |
| Achievements | 10 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Graphics Card with support for DirectX 11 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 800 MB available space