Insanium

[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/7520163/]You can find hundreds of other reviews through our Curator page[/url] [h1]"The last thing you hear before being exploded by an angry monkey? Ba-BOOM"[/h1] Some of you have never played Concept Software’s Alien which was released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC in 1984. For the most part, I suspect most of you have not played Concept Software’s Alien directly because it was released for the Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, and Amstrad CPC in 1984. But! Despite its near 40-year lifespan and the now-archaic hardware it calls home, I might offer the argument that you’ve been missing out. In fact, screw it, I will! It’s frankly amazing what that game manages to do with so little, and how hard it works on being an authentic companion piece to the seminal film it shares its name with. Unlike the other Alien game which was just a badly reskinned Pac Man, Concept gave you complete control over the film’s original cast, trapped them in the wireframe guts of the Nostromo, lobbed a xenomorph in there, and then tasked you to help them survive. You would fail. Taking direct cues from the film, the game gave you a familiar set o…

Apparently this is a remake from a really old C64/spectrum game, and they made a great job on the graphics and music. Nothing is explained but once you get the gist of it, it's about moving from room to room and switching characters to do actions and guess where the alien is, pretty cerebral, slow and frankly archaic. This was acceptable in the very early 80s, on the first 8 bit computers, but difficult to recomend today unless you're really hardcore nostalgic. I might not be the target audience

After playing a few rounds of this, I can safely say this is pretty awesome for the very low price. It's almost feels like a single player Space Station 13. I do wish there was a turn based mode or a way to pause and give everyone orders before the NPCs change rooms, but this is fantastic as is. It does a great job of capturing the anxiety and pressure I would imagine having something awful loose on your ship would entice.