Doll's Liminal

Doll's Liminal

727 Not Hound · March 6, 2023 · Action, Action Roguelike, Roguelite, 3D, First-Person

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Doll's Liminal price by region

Doll's Liminal costs £5.89 in the United Kingdom, €6.89 in Europe (EUR), $6.99 in the United States, $6.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$8.99 in Canada, A$10.25 in Australia, NZ$10.49 in New Zealand, R$23.50 in Brazil and zł31.99 in Poland right now.

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United Kingdom £5.89 £5.89 — 1
Europe (EUR) €6.89 €6.89 — 1
United Statesyour region $6.99 $6.99 — 1
Georgia (USD) $6.99 $6.99 — 1
Canada CA$8.99 CA$8.99 — 1
Australia A$10.25 A$10.25 — 1
New Zealand NZ$10.49 NZ$10.49 — 1
Brazil R$23.50 R$23.50 — 1
Poland zł31.99 zł31.99 — 1

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About Doll's Liminal

"Doll's Liminal" is a first-person exploration survival horror game set in a remote region of Japan. In the area known as "Doll's Liminal," an experiment called "Freight Transport Test" is conducted to see if one can pass through the area and reach the other side safely. The unit for measuring the depth of space is called "Depths," and the strange phenomenon of Japan, the "Doll's Liminal," attempts to take those who enter it to the deepest layer of "Depths 399."

Explore the interior of the Doll's Liminal, collect items, and aim for Depths 399. If you can shoot enough bullets into the "Blood Trail Dominator" located in Depths 399 and neutralize it, you can pass through the Doll's Liminal and reach the other side.

Many dolls are placed inside the Doll's Liminal, and many of them are believed to have souls within them. If a doll with a soul is left unseen, it will start moving and sneak up on intruders. If caught by a doll, you will be dragged into the deepest Depths in an instant. While it may seem convenient to want to go to Depths 399, if you are taken there without having enough equipment or ammunition, you will simply end up being toyed with by the dolls and have your soul taken away.

Avoid getting close to the dolls, evade them, and use your gun to take them down as you proceed through the Doll's Liminal with caution. Do not stare at walls at close range, as you may hear the sound of "Daruma-san Fell." During this, the dolls will rush towards you.

It can be difficult to decide if you should shoot the dolls, whether the ones with souls are moving or defeated, and whether you should interrupt your exploration to run away or use up your ammo to search for items. Shooting skills are not essential, but making judgments in various situations is important.

"Daruma-san Fell" can also be used as a strategic move to attract enemies or activate something, but there are many things to consider, and not many test subjects have successfully passed through the Doll's Liminal.

You will be given "Funerary Replacement Rounds." If you shoot a doll without a soul with this bullet, your soul will move to that doll. You may need a higher-ranked doll's body to gain resistance to the instability of space, aka dolls' dragging.

Our hope is to establish the Doll's Liminal as a transport route as soon as possible.

Doll's Liminal — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Doll's Liminal impresses players with its uniquely creepy aesthetic, strange atmosphere, and rewarding learning curve that reveals deeper mechanics on repeated playthroughs. Common complaints center on confusing gameplay systems that require patience to understand, unclear attack patterns and dodge mechanics, and disappointment that different dolls don't offer distinct abilities or attacks despite the body-snatching premise. Overall, players appreciate it as an obscure, bizarre roguelike that rewards careful exploration and resource management, though it could benefit from clearer mechanical f

Recommended Nov 22, 2023
So Doll's Liminal is a body snatching horror game. where the dolls you possese have higher defenses among other stuff? I am guessing here, as I went in totally blind, and still am puzzling the pieces together... from what I take away from this game. You get "Souls" which is basically your health, and it grows as you possess stronger dolls, you will be greeted by a something not unlike a old school doom boss. the dolls each have different attacks, and will be only on attack I assume after the stability of the level is lowered, or you get too close, or stare at an Daruma or the wall/socket too long. This game is the unique concept I want more of. though. I am kinda sad that it's less of an body snatching and gaining that doll's abilities type of gameplay... you just get the same weapons and gear you had before possessing the doll.... which on one part I totally feel is a missed chance of making a unique unusual body snatcher game. where you could challenge the final boss with even the lowest of doll bodies. making a challenge of it. but that's my idea and opinion. I recommend it any way. good horror game.. but might not be everyone's type of tea.
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Recommended Jan 30, 2024
It's unique, it's kinda confusing, but It's fun. I wish I knew how to avoid the doll's attacks more. Sometimes it seems unavoidable and I'm not sure if I'm supposed to avoid them at certain times or not. What I've played and proceeded with IS fun though. I love the style , music and aesthetic of everything. It's neat you go from doll to doll, but I do wish the dolls had their own unique attacks and abilities to them.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 26, 2025
One of the strangest games you'll ever see, but really fun. It takes a decent amount of patience to really get the hang of all the mechanics. You don't want to rush through this otherwise you'll never know what you're doing. Take your time and the game heavily rewards you with very satisfying replay value. Make sure to read all the notes on the walls and you can switch the game to English only when you spawn in the game. Highly Recommend
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Recommended Feb 19, 2025
Just completed my first run, and I gotta say I am confused but delightfully so. The game is not all that complicated once you get down to brass tax, its just collecting stuff, learning layouts, and having good resource management skills, but I really dig the look of the game. Its delightfully creepy in just the right way. If you are looking for a more obscure rougelike to add to your collection, I recommend this one.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 17, 2024
[i]Doll’s Liminal[/i] is an interesting little first-person horror rogue-like, with the goal being to descend to the bottom level of the titular Doll’s Liminal, a dimension of liminal hallways populated exclusively by living dolls. There’s a variety of dolls that lurk within the depths of the Doll’s Liminal, some are empty shells, others are possessed by souls and a very much hostile to your presence. The possessed dolls can only move when you’re staring in their direction, but can quite easily blindside you, rapidly draining the “stability” which essentially serves as your health points. While this will not kill you, it will catapult you deeper into the depths of the Doll’s Liminal, which can pretty easily wreck a run if you’re unprepared. As you descend deeper within the Doll’s Liminal you’ll build up resources in the form of weapons, items and upgrades to both your character and weaponry. In addition you can acquire souls, which increases the attack of your weapons (barring your crappy starter pistol). However, you have a set limit to the amount of souls you can carry at any given time, with this limit either increased by items you find or by possessing dolls. The first …
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Not recommended Jun 29, 2026
Just a slop game with good art. Very poorly designed mechanics. 95% of the time you're doing 1 point of damage to a doll on the second darumo, wasting all your bullets on something that has like 30 health, and then not being able to upgrade by posessing one. Gamedevs who don't understand how to properly balance their games or even create a legitimate gameplay loop have no business making videogames, no matter how pretty their artwork is. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ morons. There should be a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ gun on every floor at the very least because even searching all the cabinets leads to items that are functionally useless in nearly every playthrough. Resulting in an unfun RNG based ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ run nearly every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ time. Also, the dolls always one-shot you even after swapping into quote unquote "stronger dolls" and the dolls are able to hit you from the other side of walls in very narrow hallways, essentially taking what little skill-based autonomy there was out of the game entirely. Unless you just want to look at the cool art, it isn't really viable to appreciate this as an actual videogame with solid mechanics. I just consider it a cool artbook with mechanics designed by a legitimately mentally …

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