Space Captain McCallery - Episode 1: Crash Landing

Lovely sci-fi short story with fun and weird low-poly-art (if pixel-art can be a genre...), simple shooting, platforming and exploration. The best idea of the game is to take the collectathon pickups and make them not only useful but strategic: fruits and mushrooms heal, provide energy for movement and charge the weapon. Also some cause hallucinations, which makes the already kinda trippy game even better looking. Enemies are basic but not boring goofy/creepy aliens, nicely mixed with enviromental challanges (mostly falling). I enjoyed the ideas and the atmosphere and appreciate the dev fixing some minor bugs and even implementing suggestions only hours after I mentioned them. Waiting for the next game.

A beautiful homage to nostalgia, this game not only has a great color pallette, but a great adventure full of puzzles and action that reminds me of Zelda and MegaMan Legends. These textures are SO COOL! I highly recommend this title! With that being said, I think with a quick update to minor changes, I hope to see better camera control with Gamepads, an increase the UI Text, and a bit more space to exit the space craft would be greatly appreciated as it did distract from the great gameplay.

A short and interesting romp through an alien world! I finished it in 30 minutes, but times may vary between players - I kind of blasted through it. Pros are the energy system, which serves as both a hunger meter that has to be replenished through the use of food you can pick up in the world AND that can be traded for ammo, and the lovely feeling of adventure. The last part of the game is particularly cool - it's an ancient temple with keys to find and some light platforming. I had a lot of fun with it! Cons are the fact that killing monsters serves no purpose, which means that you can and should just run past them, and the lack of progression. Once you find the gun, that's about it, nothing is going to change gameplay-wise. However, the energy system creates a loop that is interesting enough for the short length of the game, so it's not that bad. TL;DR: Space Captain McCallery - Episode 1 is a nice Renegade Sector game, and a niftly little indie platformer. It's on the short side a...

I love this old school beautiful little gem! Really, it's just fun and challenging enough to require my full attention. Good work, can't wait for the next chapters

Awesome game. Pulpy, smooth, elegant.

[h1]SUMMARY[/h1] N64 without the nostalgia appeal. This game tries DESPERATELY to fix adventure game, into platformer, into shooter, into "trippy experience." While it has a comforting aesthetic to work with, using low-poly aesthetic mixed with a fantasy/sci-fi design, it fails to do anything clever, unique, or really memorable with any of it. You trapse around a bunch of narrow catwalks, harvesting plants, using rocks as a ranged weapon because of your pitiful punch, fending off ever-grander enemies, until you get the laser gun, which simplifies a lot of the mechanics and out-right erases them. The game starts off somewhat interesting with a dash instead of a jump, for you to clear gaps and move faster through the environment, and a punch which you can hurt enemies with. It will likely cause you to hurt yourself, but it's a risk. Or, you can pick up large rocks and toss them at enemies, which is far less accurate but more safe, and you have to be careful not to lose them by throwing...

I’m not sure whether it’s the semi-linear storyline, the third-person player view, or the eating mechanic, but something about this game just doesn’t sit right with me. Where "And All Would Cry Beware!" was one of my favourite games, the Space Captain McCallery franchise just seems like it’s missing something. Sure, it captures Renegade Sector's signature aesthetic, but I just don’t see myself coming back to this one. Whilst all of this is true, I don't think it's a necessarily bad game, and so I can't in good conscience give it a negative review.

Originally a negative review, but later I came back and saw "negative" attached to this game and didn't like that. Pro: - Many fights can be avoided or made easier with lateral thinking. - Battles require balancing awareness of your enemy and your surroundings. Cons: - Some block puzzles glitch and become impossible - Some sound effects really weren't properly mixed. - Auto-aim is essential but often throws you off ledges.

The Renegade Sector energy and style is all here. If you like his other games, I recommend this one.

This game really surprised me! I was expecting to enjoy it, but I thought it would be fairly standard. I found it a great action-adventure game that really captures the feeling of being lost on an alien world. There's an interesting hunger/energy mechanic that's actually handled really well. It gives the game a cool sense of urgency it may not have otherwise. The environments are quite eerie and have some very nice lo-fi texture work. Combat and enemy encounters are generally quite fun, though there can be some minor frustrations occasionally. A minor spoiler: This game features one of the best implementations of a hallucination mechanic that I've seen. Overall, it's a brisk and very satisfying journey. Excited to try episode 2!