Space Age: A Cosmic Adventure

Took a while before I decided to write a review because I usually don’t write reviews for games unless they are underrated and are not receiving the positive reviews that they deserve, anyways, this is an amazing game, it has its own feel to it and is highly unique, the music fits with the artwork perfectly, making you feel happy and scared and then skeptical about what might happen next, this game always keeps you in constant suspense, wondering about what this brilliant game has planned next, it is like nothing that I have ever played before and I highly recommend it, I have experienced no issues when playing this game at all, whatsoever.

I can only smile at the reviewer who claims positive reviews are inauthentic. I've heard about this game from two friends, in 30s like myself, who couldn't stop praising it. Once I decided to try it for myself I found out they weren't exaggerating. The graphic style and dialogues are immaculately handled. The game brings back the best of early 90s sierra adventure games without any of the annoying aspects. It lasts a good three hours at least from start to finish, and as such easily deserves its price tag and then some. Can't wait to play more from the creators of this.

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Look for yourself.. All the positive reviews are almost the same length and sound like they were wrote by a marketing person. There is about a minute of actually doing something to every five minutes of non-skipable "dialog". There is a skip button that appears and disappears at random and it doesn't seem to actually skip anything. You are constantly set up to fail, having to randomly tap on things till you get the desired outcome. Example: One of the early missions you have a flashback and you have to lead/distract two characters away over a line. The point was to train you to lead some aliens away from your target character so you can rescue him. But there is no clear point to lead the enemies to and so many obstacles (trees, can't walk between trees?!? Really?!) that you get killed many times till you figure out what you're actually supposed to do. Making the game a pointless wreck. This is not a game it is an exercise to see how long you can put up with pure boredom and tedious tasks. Free would have been too expensive for this program, let alone 3.99. What a waste!!!!! Update, Dec 2015: Still the same! Just a horrible experience. Very poor gameplay design.

This game was cute and creative, but it was very short. It felt as though the plot or pacing could've been worked out a bit to produce more levels. The game mechanics only just seemed to get interesting at the end, so more could've been done to take advantage of the uniqueness of the gameplay. For me, there's not too much replay-ability, since the cut scenes are so long and there are very few chances to skip them. This is a shame because the Achievements will make you want to go back and try levels again, but you'll be deterred by the amount of time it takes to do so. For a dollar, I'd say this game was worthwhile, but it could've achieved so much more.

A little hard to see since it's so small, but the story, music and dialogue are wonderful. Not very fulfilling/creative in the "adventuring" department, but since it was an obvious project of love it's entirely forgivable. Lost the sound for a bit (glitch?) but I got it back somehow. Good for fans of old school point-and-click adventures. The dialogue is a little long and usually unskippable (despite the available option to), so this is more of a watch and enjoy game. Pretty funny at times, too! Well worth my money.