OPUS: The Day We Found Earth

OPUS: The Day We Found Earth — A Decade Later I first stumbled onto this game back in elementary school. I was just a kid messing around on a laggy tablet, endlessly scrolling the Play Store looking for Minecraft clones. I don't even remember why I tapped on this one, but something about it caught my eye. Of course, I couldn't afford the full game back then. Naturally, I went digging for a pirated version and got a nasty virus instead—which, honestly, fair enough. I never got to finish it, and eventually, the memory just faded. Then, last week happened. I was trying to explain a vague memory of a game to a friend—something about a girl, spirits, and a rocket. After some digging, I realized I was actually thinking of the sequel, OPUS: Rocket of Whispers. But right there next to it was the first game: The Day We Found Earth. Seeing that title just made everything click. I finally played it through tonight. Sitting down with it now, a decade later, was a surreal experience. It’s less of a game and more of an emotional space. You just sit there, let the story unfold, and feel things. The ending left me with this beautiful, hollow feeling—the kind you get when something end…

A very short, chill game about looking into the endless depths of space on a search for something important. The game strikes a good balance between the visual novel parts and the ‘exploration’ part. While I did like the game, due to the main story duration of just under two hours, I’d recommend waiting for a sale.

Not bad by any means, but this feels like a drawn out game jam project more than a real game. Gameplay is extremely basic, there's what feels like 30fps cap that's very annoying when most of your gameplay is scrolling quickly through a map. There are thousands of POIs for you to scan, but none of them have any content attached, no picture, no text, actually nothing. They're just here for set dressing. You can't even accidentally find an optional target, since they only get spawned in when you select that specific mission. Even in a mission, when there are multiple potential targets, it's always the brightest one, there is no point in scanning anything but that. The narrative is quite basic and short, you might even call it cliché. You can probably get through the story in half an hour. Getting 100% after that is not very interesting and you get absolutely nothing for it.

A bit late to write this review. But it was of a many mobile games I played before getting a PC. I was glade to actually finishing it again and because of this. I'm will try to find any games from my time playing on the mobile, here on PC. If not here, at least I can revisit them there.

fantastic game,

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