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Etherborn
Delve into an environmental puzzle platformer built on exploring and understanding gravity-shifting structures. You are a voiceless being that has just been born into a world where a bodiless voice awaits your arrival. Go forth and seek your purpose.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-13.
“A cool little puzzle game about traversal and gravity, devoured it in one go and got sad there wasn't any more. Not much else to say, there is some story but it is some flowery philosophical nonsense I tuned out by the second minute, and it has zero bearing on the actual cool…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Etherborn is a gravity-bending puzzle platformer developed by Altered Matter and published by Akupara Games. Designed as a contemplative and visually striking experience, the game focuses on spatial puzzles built around an unusual interpretation of gravity. Instead of relying on…”
— a player, Steam review · 15 hrs played“A short but enjoyable puzzle game. Worth a quick run.”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 20:35 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Akupara Games Celebrates 8 Year with Sales and Livestream
Hey Akuparians! Guess what, it’s our birthday!, Akupara Games is turning 8 years old and to celebrate, we have put Etherborn on sale for 78% off! Be sure to grab those deals, check out our lovely even
Etherborn Trading Cards are Now Live!
Hey, Dreamers! We've just activated Steam Trading Cards! There are six (6) total cards for players to collect. If you've already played a bunch of Etherborn, you should have a handful sitting in your
Patch 1.0.3 is now live!
Greetings, Dreamers! We've got a small patch going out for Etherborn today fixing some bugs and adding some quality of life improvements! Patch 1.0.3 Notes: · Removed incorrectly allowed button remapp
Update 1.0.2 & Japan re-release
Hello! Today we're releasing an update for the game, with general improvements, options additions and bug fixes that we've been working on these last weeks. We're also doing a re-release for Japan wit
Etherborn is now on Sale!
Hi everyone, A very quick message from us. Etherborn is now 20% on Steam! Grab it while the deal is still on. And to everyone that already bought the game - thank you for all your positive comments an
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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, Indie |
| Player tags | Indie · Great Soundtrack · Adventure · Puzzle · Puzzle-Platformer · Atmospheric · Platformer · 3D Platformer · Minimalist · Colorful · Philosophical · Singleplayer (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Trading Cards · Custom Volume Controls · Keyboard Only Option · Playable without Timed Input · Subtitle Options |
| Languages | English * , Spanish - Spain * , French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Simplified Chinese * |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 13 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.akuparagames.com/game/etherborn/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 (64 bit) Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2500 MB available space