Exo One Reviews
Game-story-sensory experience... Exo One offers us a journey of very simple but interesting control. A way of traveling through the universe in grandiloquent settings, but also clearly introspective. An adventure through the cosmos, through exoworlds alien to ours, and yet, with the necessary emotional connections in those scenarios and in the development of the story. An interesting and far-reaching science-fiction adventure through a simple sphere that runs, jumps, glides, and gets heavier.
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As I was gliding and rolling across one of the many planets, I kept asking myself why? This is the predominant question you’ll have when playing through Exo One. This indie, space-adventure has you traversing multiple planets in an advanced spacecraft as you try to find the meaning behind an alien signal.
A short, sharply designed and immensely gratifying experience, Exo One is a trippy space ship journey worth taking. Sure, there’s a few rough edges but the deeply satisfying traversal combined with the chill vibe this game gives off make up for its shortcomings.
With the modest price and low time commitment it asks of you, Exo One is worth everything that you give it. I’d like to see the developer do more in this universe, but I have no idea what that would even look like. So maybe less is more. The solitude of playing the game is persistent, giving a sense of dread even when you have no attachment to the character or events in the game. All that you feel is the desire to go home, and to be safe and sound in a familiar place again. Exo One is cryptic, experimental, and all-around enchanting.
Exo One is not only a visually impressive achievement. It also uses haunting music and realistic environmental sounds to transport the player into its strange worlds. Handling of the craft is unusual but works very well once you get the hang of it. The story is not blatantly spelled out to the player but that adds to the mystery and allure of what you are trying to do and the ending ties everything up nicely.
All in all, Exo One is an intergalactic experience made excellent by its high-quality design on all fronts.