![]() ![]() While a movie like Arrival or The Martian comes around every few years and totally blows me away, the days of movies like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Close Encounters of the Third Kind are long gone. This is especially true considering that most sci-fi movies and TV shows are more action-heavy and less cerebral. Games like Outer Wilds, Tacoma, Silicon Dreams, Event, and others have been a nice distraction from shooting endless hordes of zombies, demons, and robots. But actual science fiction games that explore the human condition as it relates to our advancing technology and understanding of the universe. ![]() Not sci-fi action games like Mass Effect or sci-fi horror games like Prey, in which the sci-fi is just incidental set dressing. It's really nice to be seeing more pure science fiction games. ( < indicates platform I played for review)ฤก9 October 2019 (PC) | 24 April 2020 (PS4, XBox One) | 1 June 2022 (PS5, XBox X|S) XBox One | X | S (via retail disc or XBox Live digital download). PlayStation 4 | 5 < (via retail disc or PSN digital download), ![]() Performance and stability problems undercut Bleak and exaggerated depiction of Earth's climate in near future.Packs a variety of content into its short play-time.Stark warning of deferring action against climate change.Atmosphere of loneliness, isolation, and vulnerability. ![]()
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