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SCHiM

Action

Kids

Platform

Puzzle

Adventure

Indie

SCHiM is a game about jumping through shades in a challenging and lively environment, touch the light and it's over! This fast-paced 3D platformer takes elements of light & animation and adds them directly to the gameplay, delivering an experience that you will only find in SCHiM.

2.8

External Ratings

15 ratings
Release Date:

18 Jul, 2024

Last Updated:

19 Jun, 2026

About this game

SCHiM is a game about jumping through shades in a challenging and lively environment, touch the light and it's over! This fast-paced 3D platformer takes elements of light & animation and adds them directly to the gameplay, delivering an experience that you will only find in SCHiM.

Storyline

A schim is the soul and spirit of an object, thing, or living being. Everything in the world has one. A schim should NEVER be separated from their thing! This does happen to your schim, this schim who is attached to a human being is separated from him early on in the game. Can you get back to him before it's too late?

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platform

Platforms:

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S

release date

Release Date:

18 Jul, 2024

mode

Modes:

Single player

theme

Themes:

Action, Kids

genre

Genres:

Platform, Puzzle, Adventure, Indie

perspective

Player Perspectives:

Bird view / Isometric

IGDB

IGDB Website:

SCHiM

IGDB Rating

2.1 ;
IGDB User Rating

2.1

User Rating

IGDB User Rating Count

10

User Rating Count

IGDB User Rating

42%

Rating %

Critics Rating

2.8 ;
IGDB User Rating

2.8

Critics Rating

IGDB User Rating Count

15

Critics Rating Count

IGDB User Rating

56%

Critics Rating %

Main Developers

Ewoud van der Werf

Supporting Developers

Extra Nice

Publishers

PLAYISM

Extra Nice

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