Osmos
By Hemisphere Games
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Description
"Named as iPad Game of the Year for a reason, Osmos is a fantastic game. A combination of physics, survival and classic eat em up" -- WeDoCode
Enter the absorbing world of Osmos: part ambient, cosmic simulator, and part Darwinistic game of survival. This multi-award-winning game features beautiful, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and an atmospheric electronic soundtrack.
Your goal is to grow by absorbing smaller motes, but to propel yourself you must eject matter behind you, causing you to shrink. From this fundamental balance, Osmos leads the player through ambient playgrounds, deep solar systems, competitive petri dishes, dense mote-fields, and more.
Key features:
* Progress from serenely ambient levels into varied and challenging worlds. (47 levels plus bonus content)
* Confront attractors, repulsors and intelligent motes with similar abilities and goals as you
* Procedural content: play random versions of any level
* Sublime electronic soundtrack by Loscil, Gas/High Skies, Julien Neto, Biosphere, and more
* Dynamic time-warping: slow down the flow of time to outmaneuver agile opponents; speed it up to raise the challenge
Accolades:
* Winner of the IGF D2D Vision award.
* Winner of the "Best in Show" and "Fun/Compelling" awards at IndieCade.
* Independent Games Festival finalist in three categories: Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Excellence in Design and Technical Excellence
* Selected as one of the 2009 PAX 10
* ...and chosen by many websites in their best-of-year lists.
Reviews:
"a beautiful, absorbing experience… brilliant to look at… the best videogame music I've heard… will make you forget your cares and immerse you in the game… you'll find yourself returning for the experience." -- Editor’s Choice Award, IGN
"wonderful gameplay… beautifully polished and tantalizingly atmospheric… Osmos mixes puzzle, action and strategy remarkably and all the while does it with great finesse and style." -- indiegames.com
"beyond doubt, a work of genius... a relaxing, meditative experience about going with the flow... It all adds up to something otherworldly and just . . . incredible." -- GameAndPlayer.net
"an almost transcendental video game experience… a stellar example of electronic music's potential impact on indie video game production." -- londonfuse.ca
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Customer Reviews
Nice port, missing Mac specific key bindings
A nice port of Osmos, which I enjoy on the iPhone and iPad. But I'll take away a star for not supporting Mac specifc keyboard commands like command-Q to quit or command-F to toggle fullscreen.
A minor nit, to be sure, but I don't want to learn new keys for each app I download.
OMFG a must have game!
I downloaded this game as a kind of 'what the heck' type of thing and LOVE it. It's kind of tricky at first, but the picture quality combined with the soothing sounds of this game are great! You float around in a biosphere-type environment (kinda like the beginning of Spore) and grow by eating smaller things while trying to not get eaten yourself. It's amazing how something so simple could be this addicting and relaxing. Just what I need after a long day of school.
Mildly Dissapointed
Fun for a day!...Then I realized I had wasted $10. Don't get me wrong, this is still an entertaining game; just not for the price they are asking. I'd say 2.99 would be a price more suitable for a game consisting of sucking up smaller bubbles. Earlier reviews rave over this game's "stunning graphics" which really are good, especially when hooked up to a HDTV! The gameplay is simple yet entertaining.
This being said, I would not recommend purchasing this game unless you have the extra flow to blow. I'm not dissing the game itself, because it really is satisfying (yet frustrating). Just saying, cut the price in half and you'll sell it 4 times as much.
Bottom Line: Would not buy again simply because I felt it didn't live up to the price tag.
- $9.99
- Category: Games
- Released: Dec 30, 2010
- Version: 1.6.1
- Size: 18.7 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: Hemisphere Games Inc
- © 2010 Hemisphere Games
Requirements: OS X 10.4.4 or later
