It’s been a good year for indie, vintage-inspired sci-fi games. One of the latest to pay attention to is Cosmochoria, which creator Nate Schmold describes as such:
“A lone, buck-naked cosmonaut twirls freely through a cartoon universe. He is gravity-less… pants-less… his body exposed to the icy cold of the cosmos. His trusty laser blaster and accompanying space helmet keeping him alive for just a little longer. Seemingly drifting for eons, he sees a galaxy out of the corner of his eye and thrusts his jetpack towards what seems like a miniature cartoon planet hanging delicately on the edge of space.”
The graphics look quite fun and the design is clean and simple. Cosmochoria echoes an era of gaming long-passed. “At its very roots, Cosmochoria is a game about discovery,” writes Schmold. “I purposely designed Cosmochoria to feel like the type of game I would find in my Dad’s stash of old Atari 2600 games: a mysterious cartridge found in the bottom of a dusty old milk crate without a box or even instruction manual…”
Well, Nate, we think you succeeded.
