If you’re a fan of games like Spelunky and FTL: Faster Than Light — roguelikes with a penchant for precariousness and uncertainty — you owe it to yourself to give Amazing Discoveries in Outer Space a shot. It’s an inventive game that skillfully captures the perils and intrigue of space exploration, wrapping it up in an endlessly replayable package.
Amazing Discoveries In Outer Space
Cosmic Picnic · Feb 2, 2016
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An odyssey through the galaxy where physics-based space-flight and platforming action blend seamlessly together. Explore a colorful universe filled with amazing discoveries, alien races, and fashionable hats. Unfortunately, your only company is ZING, a navigation computer with no memory of your whereabouts and a slightly faulty social circuit.
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- 6.5Amazing Discoveries In Outer Space is a charming game, with a some flaws. What we have here is a deceptively challenging game wrapped in a slightly sarcastic package, with a few rough edges. Gameplay can be slow going at the start, and casual gamers will likely lose interest relatively early on. But then, casual gamers probably have little or no interest in such a quirky game as ADIOS.
- 8.0Despite that minor low, the rest of the game is full of highs, from the planets so close that the rotation makes the sun pull you away from it, to the fact that you can repair some objects to suck energy from them. The graphics are all small, and appear to be hand-drawn, but it works well playing on either a 32 inch HD TV or remote playing on the Vita. There is plenty for you to discover in ADIOS, including secret levels, so even if you’re not chasing a higher position on the leaderboards there is plenty of reason to keep playing.
- There is definitely fun to be had. The ship computer is amusing, and the visuals are filled with little funny items and quirks, but the bare bones tutorial, overly sensitive controls and camera erodes that fun over time. Furthermore, without any meaningful story about the horror and claustrophobia of being lost light years from home there feels very little reason to keep going back.
- 6.0While the design of the game is good and there is fun to be had, it comes at the cost of a lot of repetition. There are a couple of things thrown in to mix it up and keep you on your toes, but even those are limited and can’t stave off that fact for long. Cosmic Picnic have created a good game and if you like tough roguelikes then you’ll have some fun with this.
- 7.4Amazing Discoveries In Outer Space es un juego mucho más cuidado de lo que puede parecer en un principio e incluye detalles que harán las delicias de los amantes de la astronomía. Su manejo resulta muy divertido y derrocha simpatía, aunque le falta un objetivo más ambicioso para no hacerse repetitivo.
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