ALONE IN SPACE

I got this game hoping for an interesting expore-a-spaceship kind of game. The screenshots looked really interesting and I was eager to play it. What I got was pretty much what eveyone's said ... a maze of corridors. Repetative environments. Lots and lots of boxes. The puzzles are of the variety of 'find the object and put it in a thing' or those sliding tile puzzles that are kind of obnoxious. I finally got to a really complex sliding tile puzzle that I couldn't solve after quite a bit of trying, found myself stuck in the corridor, and got sick of it. I went to YouTube to see if it's worth finishing the game -- spoilers, it's really super duper NOT worth it. I really wanted to like this game -- I really, really wanted to like this game. But I just can't ... it kind of sucks. It "feels like" the developers padded this game to make it extra long. And I'm pretty sure the ending will disappoint everyone who's got the fortitude to put up with the long walk. It probably would be...

[update at bottom] I've played about 3 hrs of this game. It's a lot of samey corridors and crates. So many corridors in this terraforming base, so many crates. There are a few offices and bedrooms (I guess) and some store rooms for variety but everything generally looks the same. The environment is very, very bare bones, not much detail. Exploration is not a driving force of this game. I did get stuck once among some crates, so be careful where you jump about. (edit: may be fixed in future patches.) The corridors are often maze like and everything is so samey looking that it's easy to get disoriented and discover yourself running around in circles once you've opened up enough doors in some sections. There's a bit of a story that's told in fairly decent English (I've seen worse) but it seems pretty generic. There's some puzzle solving, most of which is fairly simple. There are at least 2 sliding piece puzzles. I hate those with a passion. I'm currently stuck on the 2nd on...

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Easily one of my top five worst games ever played. A boring, soul-less, corridor fest with tedious puzzles, bad graphics & sound and no music. Not to mention the dev inculded blatant advertising in the game for a fetish model website. Da f*ck.

Well I was hoping for a neat puzzle/adventure style game. You really have to not have a short attention span for this - I don't mean that in a "only smart people with focus can beat this game" I mean it in a "this game is kinda boring" way. Lot of exploring but the environment is too barren for this to be interesting for long. The puzzles are sparse and not especially clever or challenging. The game doesn't make the best use of the space, the story is without any depth or relevance and I think I beat the game but it certainly didn't do any job of telling me that I had aside from bringing me back to the main menu in a different way to death. I won't reccomend this.

Alone in space is a minimalistic, well optimized, first person puzzle game with functional, nice looking graphics, without music and voice acting. But this is part of the game design and it doesn’t distract the atmosphere at all. The story is told by computer terminal log files only. There are 20 sections, each of them need to be completed at once. (Auto save at the beginning of each level.) If you die at the end of a level, you have to start all over again. But if you are carefully, it’s not a big deal. (mostly) All puzzles are logical and overall easy to solve. It is up to you whether 6-7 hours of gameplay is worth the price, or not. For me it is a clear recommendation. Update: The last level is pretty challenging (tough puzzles & huge maze) and the end is not satisfactory... but still didn't change my mind.

This game is just aweful. You wander around opening doors. They added a few arcade games at some consoles, but it just seems sad. Also it's just silence; at least add some music to dress up how bad this is.

I got it at a discount, and it still feels like I've been ripped off. "Immersive story"; what a lie. The background is entirely told through texts on screen. Sometimes, that text plays a role in solving the next "puzzle"... in that it tells you you need a bomb, which you find on Oliver's desk. No need to tell you who Oliver is and where his desk is! Just do what you've been doing for hours already: Run around until you find something useful. Be careful not to die, or you have to retrieve everything again. Not that it's worth the effort. Because you wanna know how the game ends? [spoiler]You escape in a ship, but your cryosleep pod fails and you die.[/spoiler] Yeah. Just like that. Even "it was a simulation/dream all along" would've been better than that. Long story short, don't burden your wallet with this trash.

First off, let me say that I am including a video a little lower in this review, but I highly recommend you watch all 3 videos I have done on this game to get a more complete view of the game for yourself. Let me say that I had high hopes for this game and was a little disappointed. I would rate the game anywhere from a 5.5-6 out of 10. Here is why... In my first episode we find ourselves in the station walking down corridors that look almost identical from one hallway to the next and every so often you may find a room with a monitor that explains a bit of what happened, and it up to you to solve the mystery. Apart from that, there are some energy fields you have to easily navigate, but that was pretty much it. In second episode, we have a little more fun. More interaction with the environments, and puzzles. It definitely feels more like a game now, and not a walking simulator. Third episode... Now I am not that happy... Story is not progressing very quickly at all. Hallways are s...

I was expecting a story-rich game with challenging puzzles. I got neither. Not worth the price I paid.