You are a highly qualified, sharp-witted astrobiologist named Yasna. Being entangled in a space race, you and your crew end up on the unexplored planet Regis III. The scientific journey quickly turns into a search mission for lost crewmates. Follow its trail, but be fully aware that every d...
You are a highly qualified, sharp-witted astrobiologist named Yasna. Being entangled in a space race, you and your crew end up on the unexplored planet Regis III. The scientific journey quickly turns into a search mission for lost crewmates. Follow its trail, but be fully aware that every decision you make can bring you closer to danger.
On her journey, Yasna will face decisions that will shape the outcome of the story. Help her make difficult choices and witness one of 11 possible endings to the deeply philosophical story.
Discover fragments of what’s lost and report to your Astrogator. Let his voice aid you during hard times when humanity’s greatest threat emerges. The latter will force you to rethink mankind’s ambitions and biases. Go on - make decisions, follow the mystery… but remember not to underestimate the brutal simplicity and brilliance of evolution.
Robots, people… Choose whether to interact with different creatures on Regis III or how to do it. Friend, companion? Enemy? You never suspected what these words might really mean before you got here.
Immerse yourself in the atompunk atmosphere by using various tools, such as a telemeter or a tracker, and drive a vehicle through a stunning landscape. Experience realistic interactions with analogue technologies in a retro futuristic timeline.
The Invincible is a first-person game based on the motifs of The Invincible - an iconic novel of the world-known, hard science-fiction author and Polish futurologist Stanisław Lem.
There are places like Regis III, not prepared for us and for which we are not prepared for. Still, our spacecraft inevitably comes closer to the destination - for our stories and fates to cross in a dead spot.
The story and its telling is almost perfect and definitely unforgettable. Sole reason for 4/5 is because there are some noticable visual bugs and it's clear that the point of the game is not flawless or top of the line gameplay however it more than delivers in the context of what it wants to do/be - a storytelling game. Never heard of the novels but I will definitely have a go at them now.
If you're looking for a space opera experience, you're in the wrong neighboorhood. This is unfiltered Lem: here we consider the limits of human understanding, of human reason. What would really happen if we were stranded in another planet? How would we try to make out what is happening, what happened? How did we get there and how would we resolve conflict between our factions?
Hardly the setting or plot for something as peple pleasing as Star Trek.
This is what this game tries to portray. No easy task, yet a commendable one to embark in.
There are considerations as to some bugs being found in game. I myself fell off into the void at some point, but nothing that a quick load woudln't fix.
Really great experience. This is the Sci-Fi that matters.
Yes, it really does capture the atmosphere of those old, vaguely subversive, science-fiction pieces, but without having aged badly over the decades.
The world is alien, and beautiful. The logic behind the situation is good. There are no simple solutions, even once the problem becomes clear.
This is a nuts-and-bolts retro-sci-fi walking sim and it hits the mark perfectly.
Having said that, it's a walking sim. Resolutely so -no meaningless rubbish combat or traps here.
However, unlike most games in the WS genre, it's not about exploring deep emotions, or some dreadful past misdeeds, but it requires thought and contemplation on the nature of life.
Without a scientific mindeset, this game may leave you cold. With such a worldview, the game opens up vast questions and leaves you, the gamer to answer them.
Not everything everywhere is for us.
Gorgeous in every way - if a little repetitive - THE INVINCIBLE earns my respect for not simply shoehorning sci-fi concepts into an extraction looter-shooter. Unfortunately what ended up being made isn't all that great and suffers, like SCORN, from artistic expression in conflict with itself.
The gameplay consists of not particularly complex button pushes/switches, driving sequences, the occasional use of tools requiring spatial attention and holding "WASD" to walk about the game areas along pre-determined paths. None of it is compelling beyond the truly excellent production design.
Now here is the part I really do not enjoy saying but the bulk of the game is, in truth, talking. Then listening. Then talking. Then talking some more in timed dialogue choices : it's not so much the experience of playing a game as playing a book ; a nouveau "choose your own adventure" if you will.
So it has great graphics : so what? Was voiced-over dialogue and pushing "W" to move forward the best way to live this adventure? There is more to it than that, of course, so perhaps I should say it's more like an interactive movie.
Put another way : in the game you, the player, have a body inside a realized world : what then does THE INVINCIBLE do with this physicality - this _being_ - beyond the most trite, overused game mechanics?
THE INVINCIBLE is a failure at both making a traditional (read : stimulating to the dopamine receptors) game but too as a way of advancing the state of the art.
I do not enjoy writing all this about something made with such obvious love and reverence to the source material. I really don't. Let us hope these devs put their great talents to better use next time!
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