UFO - Unfortunately Fortunate Organisms
Rebourne Studios · 2017 · Action, Indie, Resource Management, Aliens, Space
PC
Very Positive85% · 61
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About UFO - Unfortunately Fortunate Organisms
U.F.O - Unfortunately Fortunate Organisms is an alien resource management action game where you beam up humans using your spaceship and churn them into resources to upgrade your spaceship. In 30 days, the evil galactic warlord will complete his master weapon and wipe your race from the face of the galaxy. Can you upgrade your ship and defeat him or will he bring extinction to your race?
Features
- Upgrade Your Spaceship – Choose how you upgrade your spaceship with the humans you collect. Increase your ship's capacity, hit points & develop new technology such as shields and bombs.
- Arcade Shooter Gameplay - Challenging bullet hell inspired gameplay. Dodge projectiles & environmental hazards whilst shooting enemies & beaming up humans. A true test of your reactions, accuracy, timing & decision making.
- Unlockable Planets – Upgrade your Command Centre to discover more planets to visit and ‘extract’ resources from. Each with their own unique environmental hazards.
- Multi-Phase Boss Battle - Old school style multi-phase boss battle. When you think that you have the boss beaten, then he pulls out another surprise for you!
- Multiple Endings - Two different endings depending on if you can defeat the Intergalactic Warlord.
- Exclusive Steam Features - Achievements, Trading Cards & Overlay support.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
UFO - Unfortunately Fortunate Organisms is a fun arcade-action game with an enjoyable premise and accessible gameplay loop that works well in short bursts, though players find the experience wears thin quickly. The main frustrations center on difficulty balancing—the game is too challenging to manage dodging, abducting, and repairs simultaneously—combined with technical issues like missing save functionality and progress wipes that hurt the overall experience.
I came out as bibolar from this game.8 found this helpful
UFO - Unfortunately Fortunate Organisms is a compact arcade-action title that mixes reflex-based gameplay with a light layer of strategic planning, built around a playful inversion of the usual alien invasion premise. Instead of defending Earth, you take control of a struggling extraterrestrial pilot tasked with abducting humans to fuel survival and prepare for a looming confrontation. Developed by Rebourne Studios and published by Back To Basics Gaming, the game leans into simplicity and immediacy, offering a loop that is easy to grasp but gradually reveals a bit more depth through its structure. The core of the experience revolves around short missions on planetary surfaces where you must dodge incoming threats while collecting humans using a tractor beam. Movement and shooting are straightforward, but the challenge quickly escalates as enemy defenses intensify and hazards begin to overlap. The game blends elements of arcade shooters and bullet-hell design, requiring constant movement and quick decision-making to stay alive. At the same time, the act of collecting humans introduces a risk-reward dynamic—some targets are more valuable than others, while certain pickups can negati…1 found this helpful
"Fire up the probes boys, we got humans to abduct".
It's a game you can finish fairly quickly. Gameplay loop gets old fairly quickly, but it's overall an enjoyable experience.
The core gameplay loop is challenging and can be fun, but it's actually TOO hard to dodge enemy fire and try to abduct humans at the same time, I'm frequently getting in situations where I'm taking more damage than I can repair with resources and getting into this broken game loop. The game only gives you 30 days which doesn't actually seem like enough time to get all the upgrades, learning curve is too steep, game has a "continue" function but after going to the main menu and trying to return to my game all of my progress was totally wiped, the game either needs to be easier or have some kind of save functionality, this is about on par with a web browser game in a bad way and until there's a possible update with QOL changes and tweaking the difficulty this is gonna be a no from me, too frustrating and not really worth the price.
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