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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Beautiful artwork, music, and story. However, solo players beware: There is a part at the very end of the game (Door 6) that is super, super frustrating (and likely impossible) when playing this solo. The mechanics are designed to where one player must slowly walk a cart across…”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs played“When I started playing Degrees of Separation, I barely knew my girlfriend. Now we're engaged and are planning to marry”
— a player, Steam review · 11 hrs played“Great concept and a strong first hour, but the puzzles get repetitive and don’t really evolve. The slow pacing, lack of variety, and clunky controls make it boring pretty fast. Honestly, I probably wouldn’t have finished it if I wasn’t playing co-op.”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:39 UTC · history 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 2026-07-25.
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 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
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