Astroloco: Worst Contact

The game is well-written and actually fun, and the puzzle design is good. The shout-outs are endearing as well. I can live with the MS-Paint graphics, especially given the charm of the pixel art. My only gripe is that there is not more content / more games from the same creator.

Good games to kill 3 hours.

Tags: Adventure - P&C - Point and Click Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library Troubleshooting notes : Another Adventure Game Studio Engine Game, AGS.Managed to get this to boot by enabling side and top borders, removing windows mode and having a 2x neighbour filter for 1900x1200 TLDR: Short with somewhat poor execution. Has its moments but feels episodic and unfinished. Try-hard at times. Unmemorable. A few hilarious scenes here and there but pretty flat experience overall. I am not sure the three or so hours you get are worth it. The game is audiovisually poor, game self aware humor will get a smirk out of you at best and the whole setting and storyline feels convoluted and confused. This almost feels like an episode in an episodic series and it comes from and goes nowhere. Astroloco starts out cringe-worthy as it explains the premise of it`s sci fi setting. Thankfully the exposition for the game's setting is soon over and it gets much better from there as the game drops all pretense at taking itself seriously. It is fairly humorous, voice acting is clearly home made but entertaining. I recognize some in-game music being chopped of track of another point and click game (Kyrandia). Character sprites are awful even in contrast to the MS-Paint style backgrounds. Plot is short and for the most part divided into fairly easy to follow tasks that require mostly low puzzle solving ability, which is good as puzzles isnt what you would want to play this for. It makes references to classic games of the genre, and has mostly a space-janitor/roger wilco theme along with trains and british flavor thrown in. I had a few genuine laughs, the autotuned robot and that whole sidecharacter was comparably underdevelopped. Basically a collection of small inventory puzzles in different sections with a NPC acting as a in-game journal to keep track of whats left to do. Some of the humor about overcomplicated unionized rules or overzealous security officers felt sufficiently modern and different but have a certain political slant to it that will not have universal appeal. The ikea assembly joke was fairly funny. A lot of the puzzles however were just a tad flat. Conclusion: While I didnt have such a terrible time playing it through once. I do have a lot of nostalgia for this genre and format which helped me stay motivated. Mostly having me reminisce of better games from the golden era of point&click adventuring. It is definitely not a game that you would want to keep in your permanent library, replay many times and you are not missing much at all by skipping it altogether.

Скам, я даже не помню откуда у меня эта игра

A fluffy (is that even the correct way to use that word here?), fun story about a mechanic and a pilot with lots of pixel sex. Kidding. There's only a little bit of pixel sex. Kidding again. There's a scene with a planet with a giant hole in it. Naughty.

Neat pixel art adventure game that pokes fun at itself and similar adventure games with a moderately fun, British humour. Pretty quick to beat but the content makes it somewhat worth the price. I'm looking forward to a sequel if the dev team comes down to announce it someday.

Witty British point-and-click misadventure featuring space mechanics, space pirates, space trains and space train drivers. What more could you want?