Outsider: After Life

Great puzzles, great art style and unexpectedly emotional journey

The emotional journey of a robot with multiple puzzles to solve along the way. As a mobile game, it was a nice play, much more enjoyable on a bigger screen. The game is about 2 to 3 hours long and puzzles were relatively easy, but the atmosphere and soundtrack were quite engaging and I found the simple graphical art style used to depict the sci-fi world beautiful and very well-done. I enjoyed it.

Let's start this review by mentioning something important about this game: Outsider is a mobile game that the devs ported over to PC. This is particularly important not only because some people simply don't want to play phone game ports, but the pricing is different. The game is about 1.39 dollars Canadian in google & apple's stores. By contrast, it's 3.39 on steam. Not a whole lot of money either way, but still. Why would you buy this on steam when you can just buy it on your phone? So, first up is the story. The story takes place after humans are extinct. It seems somewhat interesting, but after you leave the planet you awaken on, the story gets nonsensical. In fact, it rapidly makes the initial part of the story irrelevant near the end and sort of just does it's own thing. You can read the spoilers below if you want, but without giving anything away, It's really dumb. Want to know how this story goes? [spoiler] You fix yourself/equipment and discover a signal coming from a faraway planet. Heading there, you fight off this giant robot with a virus and suddenly have to restart the universe. Then the game ends. That's it. The start of the game briefly hinted that something…

Outsider: After Life is a neat indie puzzle game made in Portugal. It takes place in a post-apocalyptic setting, where you control HUD-ini, an android. The atmosphere is pretty cool, because graphics, animations and music are well done. It’s even emotional a few times. Gameplay consists of solving dozens of small, varied puzzles. And I think they are well-designed, because some of them can be challenging at first but never overwhelming. It’ll take you around 2-3 hours to complete the entire game. Oh, and all of that happens in one continuous camera shot, which is a cool touch as well. It’s sold cheaply and, most importantly, doesn’t waste your time. So, I can recommend it, even if you’re not a fan of puzzle games. Set aside a few hours and enjoy this gem.

Cute game with fairly simple puzzles that move the story forward. Very chill and melancholic.

The game is short and easy, but incredibly cute. Puzzles are mostly basic, but original. Buy on sale to not regret about it's shortness. Totally worth it with 50% discount, but you can try demo first (like I did)