SpaceVenture

It was a long, long wait. But in the end, I'm alright with it. Yes, there are still bugs and the climax feels rushed, but as someone who's first video game was Space Quest (which was the reason I could read at an adult level in the first grade), this is the game I wanted when I pledged $15 in 2013. Despite the lengthy wait and the flaws, I smiled a lot while playing and think it's a good adventure game overall and a worthy successor to Space Quest.

This game absolutely succeeds as a "spiritual successor" to the Space Quest games of yore, and is a lot of fun to play! My favorite aspect might be your lovable sidekick Rooter. Not only is Rooter adorable, he's darn useful too! The puzzles are, for the most part, logical and fairly straightforward. Highly recommended to any Roger Wilco fans, adventure game fans, or any sci-fi comedy fans! <3

I’m really enjoying the game so far! Good silly fun in the tradition of the original Space Quest series. (My husband keeps chuckling on the side, too, as he hears the Narrator and Ace’s silly lines while I’m playing.) It took me a bit to understand the puzzles/object manipulation, but once I did, I found the problem-solving engaging without being too difficult. (For me, getting used to the interface is just something that takes time with any new game. For example, don’t even get me started about how overwhelming the console version of Baldur’s Gate 3’s “icon wheels” were at first! But once I adjusted, loved it.) This was my first time playing, and I didn’t run into any bugs at all. So I think the Guys must have put a lot of work into resolving earlier bugs that people complained about. I played straight through from the beginning of the game through to (minor spoiler alert) escaping the ship before it blows in an escape pod. I didn’t have any issue with having to “click a bunch of times” to move through various possible action icons, as some others had complained. I was able to use my mouse’s top-wheel to quickly and seamlessly scroll between them all. Overall, I think it’s a fine product and bundles of nostalgic fun and that the Guys From Andromeda have really come through for their fans! Many thanks to the legendary Scott Murphy and Mark Crowe and newcomer Ken Pope for this latest entry. So far as I’m concerned, you haven’t lost your Golden Touch yet! 💗 Love you Guys and so appreciative of all the hard work and creativity you put into this game. *Edited to correct reference to “2 Guys From Andromeda” since there are now 3, and to add The Space Pope to those credited.

I'm giving this a tentative thumbs up because I'm a long time fan of point and click adventure games. I loved the puzzles and the visuals, but man I struggled with the controls! The game is quite buggy and doesn't give you a lot of feedback. You can also quite easily click and skip dialogue without meaning to because you don't know what the game is doing. Sierra fixed this problem years ago by making the cursor an hourglass so you know to wait and exactly when you have control of your character again, so why is this a modern day issue? Seriously, the final puzzle, where you have to click on an obvious red button. A timer is counting down and my cursor looks the same as during normal gameplay, telling me the player that I'm in control, I click on it five times and NOTHING while my character is chit chatting. Then he finishes and NOW it works! Very frustrating! Please developers everything's fine just make the game more responsive and you'll have a real gem here.

Yes, SpaceVenture is a worthy successor to the Space Quest franchise. It's genuinely funny in places, wears its inspiration on its sleeve, and is a charming throwback to the adventure games of the 90s with a modern lick of paint. If you're the intended audience but you didn't back it on Kickstarter, I can definitely recommend picking it up now. That said... it's still quite buggy, even at its full release and with the latest patch installed. I encountered several technical issues that had me re-doing portions of the game, with the final sequence being the least polished. Oh and the save system absolutely sucks - the game offers manual saves, but they're really just checkpoints that save at the start of the scene, not exactly where you are when you click Save. While a definite annoyance, neither the save system nor the bugs stopped me from finishing the game, so this should not stop you from buying it. Overall, SpaceVenture delivered pretty much what I had hoped for when I backed the project on Kickstarter all the way back in 2012: a point & click adventure game in the same vein as the Space Quest series but with a modern aesthetic. It’s just a pity it took so long to release, but I understand that modern game dev is hard and that even half a million Kickstarter bucks doesn’t go very far. Glad the game is finally out, glad I finished it, and I hope it sells enough over time to properly reward the people involved.

Nostalgia from someone who played Space Quest at 5 years old and every other Sierra title. I love this, SpaceVenture keeps the character, and the levels remind me of the Space Quest III and IV vibes (all of them really, and VGA remakes). Great job resurrecting the spirit of the original games, from the original creators. This series that SpaceVenture is loosely based off of got me into games and multimedia creation. Space Quest was eventually was so engaging and influential that I started making content myself with Deluxe Paint II and MS Paint that was inspired by it, and my own adventure games! It lead to a technical career unrelated to this, but I owe it all to 90's point and click adventure games. Thanks for enriching my childhood, and allowing me to relive it with this one. Even if I give myself amnesia (or try to), it would be a good game without the nostalgia. Props to the original Space Quest guys who helped envision this after the serious was swallowed up, and the miracle that it is still hilarious has succeeded where others have failed in resurrecting old games!

It is a wonderfull longawaited reincarnation of the Roger Wilko! Youth is back again!