Insanium
Conan McPhee · 2021 · Strategy, Tactical RPG, Mystery Dungeon, Space Sim, Roguelike
PC
3 user reviews67% · 3
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About Insanium
You are the commander of the starship 'Cercopes', a freighter recommissioned as a scientific vessel. An ape designated as Subject 42 is hit by strange cosmic rays during an experiment. Now Subject 42 is faster, stronger and more vicious than any human... and he's out for revenge on your crew!
That's not your only problem... also aboard is an agent from P.E.T.S.S. (Promoting Ethical Treatment of Simians in Space) who will do all they can to hinder your crew and help the rampaging ape. Who among your crew is the traitor? And what do you do with them if you figure it out?
Based on an extraordinary comic book by Joe Assi, Insanium is a tense strategic nightmare with a tongue in its cheek that will be different every game!
* Real time strategy - while you're considering your next move, so is Subject 42!
* Retro Spectrum 48k style visuals.
* A range of weapons and items to help you in the battle... will you use trickery or attempt to defeat Subject 42 in straight combat?
* Secret items can be crafted, it's up to you to work out how.
* Inspired by a comic book and the work of John Heap.
* Four difficulty levels
* No two games will be the same!
That's not your only problem... also aboard is an agent from P.E.T.S.S. (Promoting Ethical Treatment of Simians in Space) who will do all they can to hinder your crew and help the rampaging ape. Who among your crew is the traitor? And what do you do with them if you figure it out?
Based on an extraordinary comic book by Joe Assi, Insanium is a tense strategic nightmare with a tongue in its cheek that will be different every game!
* Real time strategy - while you're considering your next move, so is Subject 42!
* Retro Spectrum 48k style visuals.
* A range of weapons and items to help you in the battle... will you use trickery or attempt to defeat Subject 42 in straight combat?
* Secret items can be crafted, it's up to you to work out how.
* Inspired by a comic book and the work of John Heap.
* Four difficulty levels
* No two games will be the same!
What Steam players say
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✦ AI summary
Alien is a faithful remake of a 1984 classic that successfully modernizes the graphics and music while preserving the original's deliberate, cerebral gameplay of managing characters across rooms to locate a threat. Players praise its atmospheric tension, low price, and unique premise, though some find the lack of explanation and archaic pacing off-putting unless they have strong nostalgia for retro games or enjoy intentionally slow, strategic experiences.
[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…8 found this helpful
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 audience6 found this helpful
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.1 found this helpful
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