Cosmic Top Secret

I bought this game thinking it was going to be a goofy comedy with weird visuals. It is this but it is also so much more. The story is a straight up documentary of a daughter interviewing her father and mother who were both involved in some high level secret stuff during the Cold War. A lot of the game revolves around you exploring a map and discovering recordings, intel, photographs anything that relates to the daughter, T’s, life or her parents and colleagues. You find the intel, solve a 9 digit code and get to the next level. Each level takes about an hour to play. --------------- [h1] PROS [/h1] + art. Let’s just get this out the way because it’s the first thing you see on the store page. The art is bizarre. It is all carboard cut outs which are drawn on one side and then are just natural on the back. You scrunch up into a little ball and roll around like Sonic the Hedgehog (but the controls are not good, see CONS). + immersive. For a game that looks the way i...

Cosmic Top Secret is unlike anything I have ever played. It's a story about relationships, secrets and the cold war all wrapped in a very charming and forgiving collect-a-thon with puzzle elements. The graphics are composed entirely of paper and cardboard with pictures on it, which is very fitting since it uses declassified documents from the Danish Security and Intelligence Service to tell the story. The way that CTS stands out from other games with a focus on collection, is the significance of each piece you collect. Every piece of intel has a story or fact tied to it, you'll recieve cursory knowledge of for example [spoiler]the cold war, T's parents, T herself and cryptography[/spoiler]. It took me about 7 hours to reach full completion, including going through all the video and audio material. Getting those last pieces was really worth it, so I suggest you aim for full completion as well. Cosmic Top Secret is my game of the year. Also a quick note, most of the audio is in Dani...

I haven't been playing for long, but my initial impressions are that it is very, very good. It quickly drew me in with good storytelling, surreal yet deeply coherent visual design and surprising gameplay.

Really interesting and curious game, where you feel like you're part of T's journey to find out the story about her parents job. The controls take some practice to get hang on, but it's an exciting story to follow, and really a different game , you feel like you're inside the mind of the protagonist and trying to get the hang of all the thought strings.

Such a nice game.

This game first caught my eye at a game festival a few years ago. It has some really neat mechanics that make it a lot of fun to play. I was taken right away with the idea of rolling around as a crumpled up piece of paper. You’ll do a lot of exploring in 3D environments, and the developers made sure that rolling, jumping and even flying around in these areas is fun and easy. So the game has mechanics and controls that probably everyone will easily understand. But what makes indie games like this so fascinating is that they broaden our perspective on what games can be. In addition to the clever graphical style, for example, this game sometimes morphs into something that’s part personal documentary and part history lesson (Cold War era and early computer history). What impressed me more than anything, though, was the sense of humor in the game. I found it tremendously funny in a kind of low-key but omnipresent way. My favorite part of the game was flying around in a paper airplane on...

I love the use of a game to unravel real family (and Cold War) history, and the very literal cut-and-paste use of actual photographs, videos and documents. I sometimes had trouble adjusting the camera viewpoint in the later levels, but that's not a big issue. Rolling around as a crumpled paper ball was no problem on a PC at least. A slightly surreal, lo-fi gem with a simple, collect-em-all logic.

Cosmic top secret is quite a peculiar game. It has a very unique art-style where landscapes and characters are made of carboard, paper and photography cuts. The game is a mix of documentary and collecthaton with some puzzle elements. It tells a very personal story recollected by T, the game dev director and player in the game, whose parents used to work for the Danish Intelligence during the cold war. The game felt like an homage of T to her aging parents while showing how "growing up in the clandestine climate of the cold war" affected her. This is a Danish game and most of the voiceovers are original audio and video interview recordings, so the game is mostly in Danish with English subtitles. I found the game very well done. It talks about serious topics but presents them with a light and amusing way that incite us to keep playing and discover more. We will learn things about various subjects such as cryptography and the first Danish computer. The game also has some mini-games such ...

I enjoyed this game thoroughly, the weird presentation, aesthetic, simple but engaging gameplay and the fact I don't know if this was all real, lore, troll or a History Channel documentary makes it all even better. Also it has a heartwarming ending.

Tak for spillet Trine. Dybt rørende og helt originalt. Vigtigt dansk spil