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Solve challenging cable-based puzzles and uncover what really happened to the crew of The Alabaster. Now with Hint System (for those ultra tricky puzzles).

Filament is a puzzle, difficult and indie game developed by Beard Envy and published by Kasedo Games and Maple Whispering Limited.
Released on April 23rd 2020 is available on Windows and Linux in 9 languages: English, French, German, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Traditional Chinese, Korean and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 714 reviews of which 615 were positive and 99 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.1 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 16.49€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.49€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Filament into these genres:

Puzzle Difficult Indie Sci-fi Story Rich Strategy Space Beautiful Great Soundtrack Top-Down Minimalist Colorful Singleplayer Casual Logic 2D Sandbox Replay Value Minigames Female Protagonist

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: 64-bit Windows 7, 64-bit Windows 8 (8.1) or 64-bit Windows 10
  • Processor: Quad Core
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 1GB AMD Radeon HD 6870, 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 or better
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Requires a 64bit Processor and Operating System
Linux
  • OS: Ubuntu 16.04 (64-bit)
  • Processor: Quad Core
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 1GB AMD Radeon HD 6870, 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 745 or better
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Requires a 64-bit Processor and Operating System

User reviews & Ratings

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May 2025
Love the main puzzles, love the story, love the hidden side puzzles. Love the music and voice acting. 10/10 will play again.
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Feb. 2025
This game reminded me of playing The Witness: A collection of clearly signposted puzzles, with a variety of additional hidden puzzles littered around the environment. The common puzzle mechanism involves wrapping a piece of cable around various obstacles to meet certain criteria. The mechanism proves surprisingly versatile, including a large number of variations and a wide range of difficulty, with some of the later puzzles in each section being devilishly challenging. The final section also includes a number inventive combinations and one-off puzzle concepts. Even deducing the rules for some of the final puzzles is quite difficult. The environmental puzzles also contain a wide range of difficulties, from fairly easy to ridiculously hard. Some of them even rely on out-of-game information, which stuck me as a bit unfair. There's also a mystery aspect to the game. Your character is exploring a derelict spaceship, and solving puzzles provides access to logs which help you understand what happened to the previous crew and make sense out of the ending. Overall it's an engaging story and a solid set of puzzles. (I did have some technical difficulties running the game, and even once it would run, I had a persistent display glitch that proved a bit distracting.) 9.5/10
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Sept. 2024
Overall progression and the kind of puzzle mechanics introduced seem very inspired by The Witness. Instead of a grid you find yourself in a free space where you can draw your lines however it physically fits. Which is one of its weaknesses because it's never clear in advance whether or not you fit through a small gap before trying. Or if you're capable of pulling a line and leaving a large enough gap so you can still squeeze through later. Calls for a fair amount of trial and error, but it's still line-drawing puzzles at core. And to my surprise, you eventually do manage to wrap (HAH) your head around how to approach these kind of puzzles, making it generally much more methodical as to how you solve new ones. The difficulty curve was just very steep in the beginning, but leveled out more later on. Very subjective of course, but I found a fairly large gap in the quality of the puzzles. Some requiring a genuinely logical approach, and some being nothing but brute force (Pad, and Constellation Wrapping puzzles can go fuck themselves in particular). And not being able to move while in overhead view is bad design, especially for larger puzzles. Also you can actually run (L3 on controller), wish they would have explained that somewhere. There's a pretty intriguing mystery story, but putting the pieces together just completely depends on yourself. Unless you're thorough with unlocking and reading logs and emails, you probably won't see the whole picture and may be left disappointed or confused. As for the music, I quickly found it to get very repetitive and annoying. Disabled it for the majority of my playthrough. Bottom line is, I felt like I was engaging my brain in a new way, and for that purpose most of the puzzles were enjoyable. But if it's this or The Witness, I recommend starting with the latter. The Witness just has a much higher level of consistent quality, and you'll be able to gauge better if you're even into this type of open puzzle game. Then there's also a whole meta level of puzzles littered throughout the overworld, which you find and solve to unlock certain corrupted logs. Since I managed to get through all of the base puzzles on my own I thought I had a good shot getting all of these done as well. And as it turns out, hell no did I not. Eventually gave up on the last remaining 10 or so and looked up a guide.. and don't regret doing so either. Some solutions are way out there, and few require you to have external specialized knowledge which wasn't included anywhere in-game. So if you don't know certain topics you can start researching on the internet. I don't exactly mind these kind of puzzles, and while I liked the game overall, I didn't like it enough I guess to engage in a sort of ARG lite putting significant hours into researching concepts that are new to me. Didn't really feel like this was designed to be solved by the skill set of a single person, despite there being an achievement for it. Now that's one thing, but what annoyed me was the limited top-down perspective making it sometimes very hard to visualize things, sometimes forcing me to take multiple screenshots and edit them in Paint so I can look at them properly. You can't just try solutions on the spot either: you have to run to specific locations on the ship for that.
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July 2024
A diabolically difficult masterpiece of a game augmented by a gorgeous soundtrack, despite the baffling downer ending.
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July 2024
This is the most mixed I have felt about a game in a long time. I cannot say that the game is bad, it clearly had a ton of time and effort put in. That said I thought it was not a fun experience at all. The puzzle mechanics are the most annoying I've ever played, yet I know the right person would adore them. Within puzzle levels, you control a robot with a wire trailing behind it, and have to loop every post in the level. You cannot go though your wire, meaning that you can't easily retrace ground. That was not fully clear to me when I bought the game, but that is not a style of puzzle I like at all. The story seemed alright, until the end decided to muddle everything in a way I also really don't like. But everything is well designed, I can't say that it's bad just because I really don't like it. I can't fairly rate this one cause it just isn't for me.(And if the play time seems high, I left it idling over a day or two.) Edit: I forgot to mention, this game annihilates Steam Deck battery life, if that matters to you.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Filament is currently priced at 16.49€ on Steam.

Filament is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 16.49€ on Steam.

Filament received 615 positive votes out of a total of 714 achieving a rating of 8.11.
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Filament was developed by Beard Envy and published by Kasedo Games and Maple Whispering Limited.

Filament is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Filament is not playable on MacOS.

Filament is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Filament is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Filament. Explore additional content available for Filament on Steam.

Filament does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Filament does not support Steam Remote Play.

Filament is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Filament
16.49€ -79% 16.49€ 3.49€
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615
99
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Beard Envy
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Kasedo Games, Maple Whispering Limited
Release 23 Apr 2020
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