Affordable Space Adventures
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| Developer(s) |
KnapNok Games Nicklas Nygren |
| Publisher(s) | KnapNok Games |
| Engine | Unity |
| Platform(s) | Wii U |
| Release | April 9, 2015 |
| Genre(s) | Puzzle, adventure |
| Mode(s) | Single-player, multiplayer |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| Metacritic | 81/100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| Destructoid | 9/10 |
| Game Informer | 8/10 |
| GameSpot | 8/10 |
| IGN | 8.5/10 |
| Nintendo Life | 8/10 |
Affordable Space Adventures is a puzzle adventure game developed and published by KnapNok Games in collaboration with Nifflas' Games. The game was released for the Wii U via the Nintendo eShop download service on April 9, 2015. The game's main gameplay feature is its unique use of the Wii U Gamepad to control a spaceship by using the controls shown on the touch-screen.
In Affordable Space Adventures, the player takes on the role of a customer who has purchased an "Affordable Space Adventure" from the company UExplore. The game begins with a video that describes a newly discovered planet ready to be explored by the company's customers, even promising to allow them to take ownership of and colonize their own individual piece of the planet. It introduces the customer to the Small Craft, their own personal vehicle with which they will explore the planet's surface, and describes the process by which the customer is to be placed on and retrieved from the planet. All along the way, UExplore extols the virtues of its perfect safety record - more specifically that they have had no "recorded" accidents in two decades.
An unexplained incident occurs between the end of the video and the start of the game, where the player awakens to discover that the mother ship has crashed in a hostile extraterrestrial environment, leaving the player no choice but to explore his/her environment. Along the way, the Small Craft slowly repairs its systems, bringing new functionality online at key points. The player is also informed of alien "artifacts" that he/she must avoid disturbing at all costs, under penalty of fines. The player searches for a functional distress beacon that will allow him/her to request emergency extraction. However, the beacons that the player finds are damaged or otherwise non-functional, forcing further exploration.
As the game proceeds, more promotional videos emerge from UExplore talking about how safe their program is - so much so, in fact, that the company's safety director was given an extended vacation.
The player eventually comes upon an alien installation that has the ability to alter reality in short bursts. The Small Craft penetrates this installation's defenses and causes a massive explosion, resulting in the ship being sent back to the surface, heavily damaged. The player sets off again in search of another beacon. The Small Craft begins to fall apart, system after system failing and shutting down until only the most basic systems are left online. The player finally discovers a working beacon in the middle of a harsh blizzard that, despite generating maximum heat, threatens to freeze the Small Craft solid. After filling out a casual survey form, the beacon puts the player in stasis to await extraction. In a short scene after the credits, the player's survey form (including their Miiverse drawing if provided) emerges from an interstellar fax machine in the long-unoccupied office of UExplore's safety director, ending up on the floor with numerous other calls for help.
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