Out There: Ω Edition
| Category | Price | Seller | Device |
|---|---|---|---|
| Games | $4.99 | Mi-Clos Studio | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
5/5 - PocketTactics
9/10 'Gold Award' - PocketGamer
Grand Prize - DevGAMM Moscow 2015
Excellence in Narrative - DevGAMM 2015
Best Game Design Award - Casual Connect EE 2014
Excellence In Narrative Finalist - IMGA 2015
Best iPhone and iPad Games of 2014 - TouchArcade
Best Mobile Games of 2014 - Game Informer
Best Mobile Games of 2014 - Gamezebo
WARNING : this game is hard ! Check the forum for strategy tips : http://outthere.forumactif.org/
You are an astronaut awaking from cryonics not in the solar system, but... out there... in a far and unknown place of the galaxy. In Out There, you will have to survive, tinkering your ship with what you can gather drifting in the void, and spot garden planets to refill your oxygen supply.
Space is an hostile place ; dangerous and mysterious adventures will mark each step of your travel. You will not only meet intelligent species that won’t care about you, but also deal with ancient powers linked to your destiny and the fate of mankind itself.
Survival and understanding of what is really at stake in the galaxy is the core of what Out There has to offer.
Music by award-winning composer Siddhartha Barnhoorn (Antichamber, The Stanley Parable)
• Game Center : 59 achievements, leaderboard
• A dark and melancholic, hard sci-fi adventure
• Explore a freshly procedurally-generated galaxy every new game
• 350+ multiple choices handwritten game book adventures
• Epic main storyline with 4 different endings
• 10 spaceships with different specs to discover
• Crafting system with 20 alien technologies built from 15 materials
• Engage with alien life forms and learn their language
• No combat ! It’s you against the environment
• Eerie score by award-winning composer Siddartha Barnhoom (Antichamber, The Stanley Parable)
• Fantastic pulp comics graphics
• High replay value
Reviews
Frustrating
Simon01351
As lots of reviews point out, this is a potentially great game, but it’s too frustrating to waste your time on. No way to save your progress, so you just die over and over.
Fun little time killer
Razzwell
A pretty choose-your-own-adventure type Resource management game. My favorite aspects of this game include: the flavor (it has a a good lost in space vibe), The aesthetic (cool comic are style with lovely coloring), The sound track (this is the best part of the game imo. Barnhoorn did a great job), and the variety of outcomes. Some of my gripes include: The RNG gods are brutal in this game so it may take you several tries to find the only thing that will allow you to beat the game, an upgraded ship. I played this game initially thinking it was a puzzle i was going to solve, that kept me interested for a while, but i eventually discovered that the difficultly primarily exists due to RNG (random number generator, aka luck/chance). You are so reliant on luck in this game that beating it will be a matter of making a run with right series of dice rolls. There’s very little one can do to improve their chance of survival. Resource burn is too aggressive imo. The devs might consider creating a normal/easy mode with slightly less severe resource burn. Though the difficultly (chance of not dying) does reflect the likelihood of the character making it back to his home-world, and maybe this is inline with the theme of game. It also very well replicates the feel of those old pulp choose-your-own-adventure books, which always seemed to kill me from what seemed to be the most innocuous decision.
RNG Hell
Vaelor
There’s some great storytelling and exploration hidden in this game, but you’ll never experience 90% of it as you die over and over to the random number generator that ultimately decides your fate. Skill plays no part in this game, just a system that is stacked against you so severely (even on “easy” mode) as to be maddening.
Nice game but buggy
heyyou9999999
Very nice game: adventurous, solemn, eerie, challenging. Wonderful sound track: I mixed it into my work music. Bugs: sometimes the game goes crazy when you lock the phone and resume. The Oxygen counter’s label somehow changed to Japanese. Also all sound has stopped working, even though the music, effects sound settings are on, as well as the phone volume. Even the opening scene now plays on mute.
Gas gas gas
ravnglunatic
I can never collect enough H or He to keep going! This the biggest draw back to this game. It completely unpredictable what you will find in each system. Frustrating!!!
Please update the app so it fit iPhone Xs max screen
SuccnFucc
This one of my all time favourite games but I would really love it to be updated so it can fit the iPhone Xs max display.
Great game!
Jdragon78
Beautiful graphics, great soundtrack and actually a challenge to start with. Most games these days are WAY too easy. I love that this one really makes you think.
A hidden gem
Hey bo bo
Not sure why this isn’t more popular. Immersive resource management game that really made me feel like I was lost in space.
I love this game!
CooperUSAF
Phenomenal game, super easy to pick up play and put down like 80 days or FTL but addicting enough to spend all night on as well. Received numerous additions/updates over the years , would love to see it get support for newer phones and use the full iPhone X/XR screen especially.
3.5 stars
Dreaming of Wolves
I have mixed feelings about this title. Here are my thoughts. 1) I actually found it far easier than people claimed. I thought I was going to die instantly and I actually made it really far, even on my first play through. It’s certainly easier on Easy. 2) the game really shows its age in the graphics. The graphics aren’t very sharp, even on a pre-iPhone X device. And the text font is too close to comic sans for comfort. The music is somewhat bland. The environments are still pretty. 3) while I disagree about the difficulty, I do agree with the random chance people complain about. RNG does mess you up randomly when you’re pretty far along. I found it only does that when you’re low on two core resources so you must choose which one to fill. Then RNG never lets you fill the other resource and you die from lack of that resource. To combat this, I would just always keep resources above the halfway point when you can, even if you waste more fuel. This game is also far longer than FTL, so starting over isn’t as easy. Especially if you’ve gotten really far. Overall a satisfying experience well-worth a dollar on sale, but worth the standard $3.99 too. I suggest a sale if you’re interested.
