SpaceNET - A Space Adventure
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Authentic small two-color point-and-click adventure game in retro 80s style.
This game can be a real gem for you if you value minimalism and retro atmosphere with a non-linear sci-fi adventure with less graphics and more story.
– Real player with 355.2 hrs in game
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spacenet is a retro-style sci-fi point & click that gave me asteroids, elite and similar vibes, but there’s no combat, resource management (except money, see below) or anything like that here, just you in your spaceship wandering around, talking, puzzling and hacking in a non-linear fashion.
– Real player with 10.4 hrs in game
Alien Function
Fun game with great story line and good puzzles ranging from easy to very challenging. Very very linear but the story line was engaging enough to want to keep on the ride. Really brought me back to the experiences i had playing Kings Quest, Police Quest, etc series way back in the day (showing my age now).
– Real player with 15.4 hrs in game
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no hints, this game is bad.
i really wanted to see the end of this, but it’s just a ‘‘click everything until something works’’
also, the only alien you will see is on the title screen.
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
Still There
Still There – An Existential Space Adventure
Still There is a unique game in that it combines various elements successfully without sacrificing the quality of any single thing. The puzzles are varied, interesting, sometimes infuriating and always satisfying yet the simplification option means that the meaningful narrative isn’t barricaded behind a difficulty wall and players aren’t prevented from experiencing the culmination of the storyline’s various threads and miss the ending. This shows respect for player choice but also places equal importance on both of the main aspects of the game, reiterating that it is a narrative-driven, puzzle game and not just one or the other.
– Real player with 21.8 hrs in game
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Without exaggeration and long conversations, this game is brilliant. I can’t even make many comparisons to her, the closest thing is the 2009 «Moon» with Sam Rockwell. The ideal atmosphere of cosmic loneliness, feelings of one’s own imperfection in front of the impassive thousands of shining starry eyes, tearing oneself away from mother Earth into infinite space. After a personal terrible tragedy, the Earth became too big for the protagonist, and he locked himself in a cage both inside and out, becoming a caretaker of a cosmic lighthouse, dangling somewhere in the endless waters of a vacuum. Gorky, the endlessly chatting cynical computer, and the silent iguana became his only companions here, somehow somehow postponing the final fall into the depths of madness. Well, the routine of maintenance of the lighthouse, which is so complicated that a brief reference on its contents is available on 14 (!) Pages of the manual (and to solve puzzles you will have to read and understand all of them, you can believe me).
– Real player with 10.4 hrs in game
ASA: A Space Adventure - Remastered Edition
TL;DR: Problems with interface and puzzles keep this from being recommended
Maybe spend a buck or two on it if you really like the genre (but there are other short game that you can get for the same cost that are less annoying).
I got this cause I saw Catyph released, and was curious about this earlier game (ASA) before I tried Catyph. Pros and Cons:
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Science Fiction point-and-click with a somewhat interesting story
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Some of the puzzles in the later parts of the game are nice (but getting there is a problem, see below)
– Real player with 24.6 hrs in game
This is my 3rd Black Cube game and I love spending time in Simon Mesnard’s world. His attention to detail in terms of the alien language, numbering system, technology, etc. pulled me in from the very beginning. He is also a master at creating (very) challenging puzzles which will make you stretch intellectually. Thus, you feel a sense of real accomplishment when you solve them.
ASA is an early game with an interface that makes navigation puzzling at times. However, once you get used to it, you will be zipping around the ARK and the planets without thinking twice. The art and music are beautifully done and I enjoyed the voice acting. Using a dairy and various artifacts, the game tells a full story of the astronaut who preceded you.
– Real player with 20.1 hrs in game
Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock
Short but maturely written and well executed adventure in a Sci-Fi setting (just how I like it) almost without any drawbacks.
Backgrounds are static but very well drawn images with points of interests reasonably highlighted. Game does this in a special, non-intrusive way I haven’t seen before but it works so there is not much pixel-hunting. Puzzles are all logical (some too much so and not in an easy way) but if you get stuck there is a built-in hint system in a way of radio communication with your injured side-kick. Doesn’t even feel like you are using hints and that’s a good thing.
– Real player with 3.9 hrs in game
Ever thought of having a ship crash on a random isolated planet and then find a way to get out of it, preferably safe and sound? Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock (M:DtD) is your dream come true. Not only does it have some nice small puzzles, but it also offers the player an entertaining experience.
_He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.
Confucius_
Without any further delay, I present to you my review of Morningstar: Descent to Deadrock.
– Real player with 3.7 hrs in game
Star Trek™: Judgment Rites
It remains a good game but you need to be prepared for the 1990’s point and click interface.
They called these “Pixel Hunters” for a reason, you can easily overlook a small cluster of pixels on screen that turns out to be an object or switch vital to solving a puzzle. At times the mechanics of the game can be punishing and not intuitive. Playing pre-Internet it was easy to get stuck and get frustrated but now there are some good hint systems online (Like universal hint system) that give you a clue when you need one and keep that feeling of making progress alive.
– Real player with 29.9 hrs in game
Restless James Tiberius Kirk with his fellow friends again boldly go to … you know where.And if you dont know you have a great chance to discover it yourself.Fully recommended.
And i made some changes in config file -dosbox_stjr.conf- ( it can be found in the game dir.) to wide the screen
fullresolution=output
windowresolution=output
output=overlay —- you can put -ddraw- if you got green dots on screen edges.
scaler=advmame2x —- makes picture a bit softer
aspect=false —- try setting -true- if screen is too wide
– Real player with 16.5 hrs in game
Tales of Cosmos
Space isn’t supposed to be charming. It’s cold, dark, unforgiving, and unapologetic. And yet, In Tales of Cosmos, space is an anxiously charming place to be.
The premise couldn’t be simpler: you play a pair of anthropomorphized animal space explorers who become stranded in an unknown solar system and have to travel from one inhabited planet to another in search of a way back home. Along the way, you’ll meet a sleepy ghost, a crew of stranded moon mice, a hard-drinking space pilot, an angry pumpkin, and many others as you traverse worlds than range from leisure beaches along a chlorine coast, to forgotten tunnels below war-torn cities, to a tiny planet permanently covered in shadow.
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
5.1 hours before finishing it BUT … even if short, it’s memorable. Ideal for beginners in pc gaming or even for the one like me that doesn’t have a powerful pc with huge graphic card and gaming hardware. It’s a point with the mouse with 4 keys on the keyboard kind of game. Not the usual W A D as for moving around in a game. I would recommend it for kids 10 + Years old with some hints to give them in the walkthrough (free and link bellow) if they get bored not finding the next step.
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=817202219
– Real player with 7.0 hrs in game
Murders in Space
“Urgent. This is orbital station PEGASUS. Presence of unidentified criminal on board. Demand immediate intervention. Situation of crew intolerable. I repeat, demand immediate intervention.” Use observational, analytical, and interrogative abilities to track down a murderer on a space station before they claim their next victim.
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Save the lives of crew members by staying one step ahead of the killer – or witness their demise if you fall behind.
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Timing is key: 24 hours remain to solve the mystery, with crew members changing their positions and activities every hour of in-game time. Set the pace with the ability to speed up, slow down, and stop time.
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Ask the right questions: Interrogate crew members to get at their individual secrets and true intentions.
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Run biological tests and use specialized gadgets for clue detection and analysis.
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Dock a space shuttle, conduct a space walk, and explore a fully crewed space station in zero gravity – as imagined by the game’s designers 8 years before the launch of the International Space Station.
Samorost 1
Cute, imaginative, relaxed and beautiful!
A playthrough takes 30 minutes max.
Spacemold!
A gnome, living on a tiny globe consisting of a woodish/industrial/moldish hybrid substance drifting in space sees a similar object on a collision course with his home! So he travels with his rocket to said object, trying to alter its course!
Free and remastered!
Originally released in 2003, Samorost 1 makes his entry to Steam now eighteen years later. It preludes the it’s two successors, Samorost 2&3.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game
This is not a dream, Samorost 1 remastered, in a really masterful way! One precious little gem saved from the doom of Flash, with beautifully refreshed graphics, improved animation and crispy sound, and all come for free! Hats off for Amanita Studio for saving Samorost 1, a game that has a special place in my heart.
Some elements I really love about Samorost 1:
- The microscopic scenery, which reminds you of a summer day trip to the forest after a rain. I think the later games never had this charm totally the same.
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game
Samorost 2
Ok so here is my review for Samorost 2.
Art Like the other Samorost games Samorost 2 has some amazing art. It is a little more hand drawn looking than 3 whether this is a pro or a con is up to you but I personally enjoy it and it has a nice feel all around. The art is very consistent and really flows from one place to another. Everything has a nice mix of the look of a picture, an abstract world and random items in the everyday world. The only gripe I have about the art is the lack of screen shots. I really wish you could take screen shots in this game and I would really like it if they added that (don’t expect them to because of the platform its running on and the fact that it’s an older game). Although it is really a con I would still totally recommend the game.
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
Samorost 2 is short. It’s going to resonate differently with each individual. I personally found nothing particularly fantastic about it. The original Samorost sets itself apart by using close-up photographs of various objects, mostly forestial, to create the illusion of large landscapes. Samorost 2 relies more on a traditional hand-drawn approach, and struggles to be as visually interesting as the first game, which is available for free on the Amanita Design website.
Samorost 2’s music, as usual for an Amanita game, is top-notch, and one of its highlights.
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game