Xoo: Xeno Xafari

A chillax game: No stress, no pressure, just strolling around grovin' to the tunes and peepin' at all kinds of silly descriptions that make you smirk, grin or go "Oh dear!" and then grin. P.S. Actually. quite a good thing to play close to bedtime cause it involves no physical stimuli of the demanding kind. but is sufficiently nutritional for your dream-imagination centre.

this is an amazing game and i loved every second of it. and that's only partially because i'm in it. if you see the NULL FACE, be sure to say hi and give me something to chug. willy elektrix is one of my favorite developers ever, and i was so excited when i learned he'd be doing an expanded version of the similar game on his MEGALLENNIUM 5-IN-1 cart. i sure wasn't disappointed! this is exactly my kinda thing. so what's it like? well, this is the kind of game you play when you just want to spend an hour or two a day wandering around a fun little island, spotting weird creatures and digging up treasures. (unless you're a lunatic like me, and you play it for 9 hours over a couple days to get a 100% clear.) that's really all there is to it! there's no combat, no puzzles, it's just a fun and easy little luck-based game where you collect eggs and nuts, buy items to help you find all the xenos, and talk to the great characters living on this wild island. some people in the reviews here thi...

Quirky and relaxing game based on exploration and collecting. You try to spot Xenos, the flora and fauna of the Bermuda Triangle (where you are vacationing) and also collect eggs, videogame cartridges, nuts, collectibles (lol) and precious stones. Then you sell the eggs to get funds to buy gadgets that allow you to find even more xenos. The nuts add energy to the amount of stamina you'll have the next day to keep exploring (your energy is actually measured in steps, a new day starts every time you deplete the amount of daily steps). The graphics are a mix between NES and Gameboy Color and very charming. My only pet peeve is that the music is too frantic and clashes with the relaxing atmosphere of the game (so, i play with sound but without music). The best part of the game is the lore of the xenos and the collectibles, full of absurdist humor that made me laugh out loud several times. Very recomendable.

A chill, relaxing little buffet of the developer's characteristic weirdness. No time pressure, no goals, minimal progression. Just you wandering around happening upon strange little sprites with even stranger descriptions.

Good collect-athon style game. Very relaxing and satisfying. The only things missing are achievements. (Would fit perfectly with the collection markers and wide variety of collections.)

I'm not good at reviews, but I really enjoyed this game! The dialogue for the characters is nice, the music is cool, the descriptions for the collectibles and the xenos are nicely written and many are funny, and the xeno designs are REALLY cool. Had many moments where I'd spot a new one and go "OH! What is THAT?" and was not disappointed. Overall a great game to play when you want to unwind and just have a good time.

This is probably this creator's worst game and it's the one that costs money. But "worst game" in this case still means something full of colorful writing and imaginative, novel creatures and bits and bobs, and beyond that it's worth paying just to support the other games.

Interesting game that is a collectathon in a way.

If you have a Steam Deck, you're gonna love cozying up with XOO: XENO XAFARI. This sweet, offbeat, 2D collectothon was BORN to be played on a Deck! I got XOO: XENO XAFARI because I am a big fan of A. Hagen's previous RPG-with-combat game VOID PYRAMID (which I described as: If the DOS game "PHAROAH'S TOMB" had a baby with the French indie RPG "OFF!" and then made game developer Porpentine the godmother and sent it off to be raised with her,) and RAMBLE PLANET, a sort of puzzle-exploration game where you were hunting for pieces of your ship. Both games had phenomenally evocative writing that brought their simple, stylized sprites and alien worlds to life. XOO is no different! Gameplaywise, it more closely resembles RAMBLE PLANET (which I never finished but enjoyed my time with) in that there's no combat and a colorful map to explore. But where RAMBLE PLANET had a pretty severe aesthetic that was hard to "read", XOO has vibrant color-coded zones, flora, and fauna that strangely put me i...

"Xoo: Xeno Safari" is a chill RPG-ish collectathon game, where you spend your vacation on an archipelago full of odd and alien lifeforms: You go camping, gather equipment, catalogue all the weird things and collect various curios. The main deal here is: go out, find stuff, gather experience and funds to find more diverse stuff and so on. On a personal note "Xoo" seems to me like A. Hagen's "weakest" game but their odd and imaginative writing and ideas are still all over the place, so if you enjoyed their other games, you will probably enjoy this as well!