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Out There Somewhere

92% positive of 6,160 Steam reviews

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To finish
1 h
Released
2016
Steam Deck
Verified
Platforms
Steam

Made by MiniBoss. Published by Senpai Industrial Studios.

About the game

You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.

Tagged by players

  • Platformer
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Retro
  • Puzzle Platformer
  • Short
  • Puzzle
  • Sci-fi
  • Metroidvania
  • Adventure
  • Difficult
  • Space
  • Action

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What players say

  • Recommended
    Buy this game only on sale, and only if you are terminantly bored. That is: the game itself is a cool, short one. Feels like it was quickly made, like a project of technical feats for a learning dev team. The mechanics are cool and quirky, but the bullet hell sections, the story, music, and art direction are lacking to me. None of those things are cathegorical issues, UNLESS, you are willing to buy it for the…

    2 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    ⭐ A Short but Clever Pixel-Art Adventure 🎮 Introduction Out There Somewhere is one of those small indie games that gets a surprising amount of mileage out of a simple idea. It starts off straightforward, but it doesn't take long to realize that the real focus is on movement, precision, and solving environmental puzzles. It's short, focused, and full of personality. Instead of stretching a simple concept into a…

    3 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.

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  • Not recommended
    This review is going to be a little bit unfair, but then I feel I was misled. At the time of this writing, the "About" section describes this game as "Inspired by games such as Cave Story and Super Metroid", and it's tagged as a "Simulation", "Strategy", and "Metroidvania" game. It is none of these things. This is a short, hard, linear puzzle platformer, with brief side-scrolling shooter bookends. The game as it is…

    2.2 h played when written. 36 found it helpful.

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