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@silencer: they're becoming rather popular with developers i'm afraid, so you risk getting more of them. Dreamfall Chapters comes to mind, for instance.

 

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Ars Technica's Steven Strom joined the crowd and reviewed Life is Strange: Episode One.

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Forced to crash land on an alien planet, the crew of the Morningstar find themselves trapped. With a damaged engine and drained stasis pods, it's up to Powell to find a way off the deserted world. But not all is as it seems as he soon finds out after venturing from the wreck of the ship. As the only surviving crewmember that's not injured and forced to stay aboard, it's your job to explore the desert. Roam around the wreck of another unfortunate ship and the nearby ruins abandoned by its inhabitants in this first-person sci-fi point-and-click adventure game.

 

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It has now been revealed that stealth adventure République Remastered will be coming to the PC on the 26th of February through most leading digital retail outlets.

 

Here's a snippet regarding what to expect:

 

Rebuilt from the ground up in Unity 5 (...) includes Episode 1: Exordium, Episode 2: Metamorphosis, and Episode 3: Ones and Zeroes in both Standard and Deluxe Editions.
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RPS' Alec Meer offers us his impressions on Out There.

 

For the first time it is happening that I may choose a phone over a computer. It may not last, as Out There is coming to PC, too. It may also last, as I already own it for Android and the upcoming Omega upgrade is free for already existing owners. :D

 

Anyway, it is basically a very simple roguelike game. You are stranded far away from home in a spaceship and you're looking for a way back. Additional endings appear en-route.

 

You are constantly resupplying your ship with fuel (H, He), air (O) and hull (Fe). For flying around you'll be using fuel and air, while getting air from gas giant planets your hull will be damaged and you'll need to land on rocky planets to get iron. Air you'll be scooping (and "mining") on garden planets, where aliens live. Those will be talking to you and after enough visits, you'll learn enough of the (universal) alien language to know (guess) what they are saying and your percentage of favourable answers will rise. Aliens give you Omega, sort of a universal element that can supplement any of the three basic commodities or it can fix any of the broken ship equipment without using any additional raw elements. Instead of Omega, they may give you blueprints for a new ship component. Occasionally you'll find those on ordinary rocky planets, too, as leftovers of once-were-starships.

 

The resources - Au, W, Th... - are mined while drilling rocky and garden planets but you'll most likely only be able to store enough of them after you change your ship for something bigger. You see, occasionally you'll come across adrift ships and you'll be able to make a swap. You can relocate your resources to a new ship and hop aboard. You can even break down the ship components on the old ship and get additional resources - or break down the components on the found ship and transfer them to yours. Sometimes you'll swap a starship for a single component that it has installed and you don't have the blueprints for.

 

On bigger ships you'll have more room for cargo or for additional ship components. With them you'll upgrade your ship with additional capabilities that will, with some care, more than justify less room for cargo.

 

The game is already addicting and upcoming "expansion" will, beyond a doubt, make it even more so. If you're playing on a phone, be careful to leave some of the battery for that call you need to make.

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Who better than a Space Voyager to tell us about what's Out There. ;)

 

Very nice overview of the game. Sounds like it has quite an interesting mix of elements and possibilities.

 

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I do pity all those poor people whom you'll be leaving out there in the cold without taking their calls though... :P

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