InnerSpace

Ok. So. There is a lot of potential here. It's a flying sim in some spherical worlds. It's puzzling, poetic and you can get lost in it. But. It's terrifyingly outdated in a lot of ways. It feels like a 2$ game from the nintendo ds store. Unpolished, bad controls, almost impossible to guess puzzles and very poor narration. Just look at the achievements ratio. Barely 50% people reach past the tutorial before giving up completely. 5% finish rate for a ~5h game is something I had never seen before. It needed test play. More of them. Let's list some basic problems: - The controls feel buggy, jittery and random (even on controller) - Most planes exchange maniability for speed and that's a poor design choice when half your game is manoeuvring in small tunnels - The goal of most area is poorly laid out or hard to understand (following some bird for 2 minutes is not something I find self-explanatory), the in-game helper character don't give you any clues, it's a shame, that would have been great. - There is so much things to collect everywhere but feels aimless as most of it don't matter - Color and lighting are a miss. The game feels grey most of the time and areas all look alike when they should not It was a mostly painful 7 hours, considering I also could not get two achievements because they never triggered.

I really enjoyed this game. The other reviews bring up some valid criticisms, but I still think it's a fun game. And during sales the price drops pretty low. I'd say it's worth the discounted price.