“I thoroughly enjoyed Out There: Omega Edition. Hopping from one system to the next not knowing what will be discovered was a constant thrill.”
True PC Gaming
“This is Gravity in which everything usually goes as wrong as it supposed to, yet somehow the astronaut remains calm, even lyrical, througho...
“I thoroughly enjoyed Out There: Omega Edition. Hopping from one system to the next not knowing what will be discovered was a constant thrill.” True PC Gaming
“This is Gravity in which everything usually goes as wrong as it supposed to, yet somehow the astronaut remains calm, even lyrical, throughout” Rock, Paper, Shotgun
“For those looking to explore the vast reaches of space in a narrative based storyline.”
9.2/10 – Universal Gaming Reviews
Review without spoilers: Great role-playing and science-fiction adventure. Out There: Ω Edition has very simple mechanics, a good difficulty curve, good story and multiple endings to discover. Hardly, the first experience with this videogame will be repeated the second time you play it. In short, it is a video game with a great narrative, perhaps a little short for some gamers but with a large dose of adventure and exploration. Totally recommended, you won't be disappointed!
This is a game I play (on my phone) whenever I'm getting bored and there's no internet connection. I've done this for over 10 years at this point. It's easy to die in the beginning, but if you make it to a bigger ship, you've got a real shot at making it to any of the 4 endings.
The game mechanic is all about managing your main resources: fuel, oxygen, shield. But there's a another kind of resource, the number of storage slots on your ship. If you're not willing to throw away resources that aren't important right now, you will run out of the resources that are. The more technologies you install, the less storage you have.
The game is very atmospheric. You jump alone from solar system to solar system, maintain your ship, encounter (mostly) artifacts of other civilisations on your quest to find traces of humankind among the stars.
The game itself is kinda fun, its relaxing and simple to use, especially with a touchscreen. The graphics are ok, and the story is good.
However, the game itself gets repetitive very fast and your chance of success is based off of RNG.
The key resource of the game is "Omega", a valuable substance which, avoiding spoilers, can repair components for free, however the REAL valuable resource in game is Helium, which is starship fuel. The range of the ships ingame is insanely low, you will run out of fuel far faster than oxygen or any other resource.. It is not fun to explore or play when each star system NEEDS some gas gains to refill your fuel. If you happen to jump to a couple of systems in a row with no gas giants... guess what? You are dead. You can try and backtrack, but for some reason your tiny ship can literally strip a planet of all its resources in one go, so backtracking though your "scorched-earth" is useless. There is also a jump distance in game, and you jump from star system to star system, however, you can get into a chain of stars that goes to nowhere, or ends too far away from the next star to jump to it, leaving you to backtrack, but you cant backtrack becasue of the fuel situation.
Also for a game that can supposedly be played on mobile, it gets my laptop very hot. It needs far more settings for visuals and fps.
The game can be fun, but I prefer rouge-likes that allow you to get better with each try, the only thing that carries over are the ship designs that you find, but they are not that useful to begin with and finding your past out-of-gas ships in verse is kinda useless when you need fuel and only fuel.
There is hardly any story. At each jump to another star some random event happens, often resulting in loss of fuel or damage to the ship. If you whish, you can call that a story.
The gameplay is extremely repetitive. The hardest part is not to run out of fuel. I died a few times before I realized what not to do. I paid only $2.40 for it, and had some moderate fun with it, so I don't regret the purchase.
Eventually I got used to the idea of dying, no matter how prepared you may think you are. The mysteries of space & it's unforgiving brutal abyssal depths will consume you at some point. I haven't even came close to making it to an objective yet, even on easy; Death happens very quickly.
