UFO 50

I was hoping I'd finally have the right words for this at the 100 hour mark, but I'm still struggling. It's really good, might not be for everyone, but is ridiculously technically impressive.

The developers have delivered a package that delivers 50 individual games that are all fun in their own right, but also tells a story about a company slowly developing mastery over game development over a decade.

The first few games in the collection have rudimentary character controls, barely have sounds, don't have title screens, didn't have credits yet, but all innovate in their own surprising ways. Further in the collection, the games get far closer in feeling to what Rare or Capcom made for the NES, but with small callbacks to previous games in UFO 50 for anyone who's taken the time to explore them.

If you're the kind of person that can appreciate the fact that this team included 2 JRPGs in two distinct styles, one where a game over requires the player to load their last save, and another where the player only drops money and is sent back to town, just to tell a story about developers getting better at their craft and ongoing experiments with save systems, you owe it to yourself to pick up this collection.

Nobody at Mossmouth had to make any of these simpler games to learn. Instead, the limitations they've chosen aesthetically and mechanically help push this weird pseudo-narrative artistic interpretation of the collection as a whole. It's ridiculously cool and I don't think there's ever been anything else quite like this.

Simply put, the amount of game development talent on display here is actually incredible.

It's hard to believe what the developers have achieved here. The scale of the ambition on display here is staggering; these aren't 50 mini games, these are all fully realised games with depth and charm.

If these games were real and came out in the 80s then UFOsoft would be as beloved as Nintendo - these games are THAT good.

Several of these games are genuinely GOTY 2024 contenders on their own. The fact that they all come together in one package is still mind-blowing even 35 hours in.

I can see myself as coming back to these games for decades to come.

Astonishing.

At worst, it's 50 cents a game. At best, it's a reimagining of retro games that have learned from 40 years of design. Challenging, clever, and cute as heck.

This brings me back to being a child and switching out the Nintendo cartridges to play a completely different game every 10 to 15 minutes. I thought I was losing interest in gaming in general, this has helped me learn to just enjoy games all over again.

I don't think this game needs my help to convince anyone to play it, so let me just give a tip to anyone starting UFO 50: Boot up the 44th game Pilot Quest first, as it has idle game mechanics in it, so the automated processes you set up will continue to make resources while UFO 50 is open. I would recommend you start it up first so that you bank resources while you play the other games.

Just to preface, I'm approximately 50 hours into UFO 50. I have played 35 of the 50 games in chronological order and fully completed 18 of them. A full completion is referred to as a 'cherry' in this game.

This game is incomprehensibly ambitious and I still can't wrap my head around how this was ever made and released at such an inexpensive price point. There really are 50(!) video games in this pack, each of which could have been released for $5 and nobody would bat an eye. Of course, some are better than others but there is not a single one that I've played that could be seen as being objectively bad.

As you work your way through this fictitious developer's chronology, you'll notice a marked increase in video game complexity and scope, which makes me so much more excited to try out the remaining 15 games. Many of the earlier, more simplistic games took me 1.5-2 hours for a cherry completion but the newer RPGs, puzzle games, strategy games, metroidvanias, and even an immersive sim-like are taking me upwards of 5 hours per game to cherry.

One tangential complaint I have is this game's handling of achievements, it should have shipped with 100-150 achievements with 2-3 per game to meet the gift, gold, and cherry requirements. The current achievements are extremely unrewarding and frankly dull.

I believe UFO 50 is a must-own for any gamer who even remotely enjoys the NES/SNES era of video games, and for those who don't, this is an excellent introduction and what may become an eventual deep dive into what made these games so iconic. Almost all of these games, if released in the 80s, would be talked about like Mario and Zelda are today. A tremendous accomplishment from Mossmouth.

This is a once in a life time game. Even after 100 hours and 15 full clears, I still have so much more left to explore inside UFO 50. I wanted to hold off writing a review for this game until I had collected all the cherry disks but that seems like it'll take months at the rate I've been going. So instead here's a short review telling you this game is absolutely worth your money. The variety alone is enough to guarantee that you'll find something in this collection that'll click with you, even if you aren't the biggest retro gaming fan.

I adore this game and want nothing but the best for these developers.

It's difficult to describe what a tremendous value UFO 50 is. It's a tremendous accomplishment of game design, 50 cohesive, interesting, diverse, fun, clever games of different lengths and genres, but/and it's also so clearly a labor of love made by people with a deep nostalgic fondness for the early videogame industry and a beautiful vision of an alternate history where one company had a catalog this strong on an Atari-alike that never existed. If you have any fondness whatsoever for retro gaming, you need to own and play this. Take your time with it. Chase the high scores. Read the behind the scenes info. Learn its weird crafted history and the invented names of the people who made it. I can see why it took 7 years to make, and it was time well spent. Bravo, Mossmouth. This is an achievement.

In the current gaming landscape, the unabashedly retro UFO 50 feels like a breath of fresh air. Firing it up feels like the perfect antidote to what often feels wrong with modern game design. No need to spend hours getting through the opening cinematics and tutorial stages just to find out that it's the same thing you've already played a thousand time before. Just a few button presses and you're in.

For anyone who grew up before the PlayStation era, the types of games that make up this collection should be instantly recognizable: adventure games, puzzle games, sports titles, and many more. When you launch a new one, the basic gameplay tends to be immediately obvious. Despite relying on only two buttons, many of these have a surprising amount of subtlety and depth; some even take hours to finish. UFO 50 isn't content just to rehash the tropes of those genres, but adds its own twist to whatever it does. The golf game isn't just a golf game, but also a sidescrolling sci-fi platformer. The adventure game isn't just a adventure game, but a procedurally generated open world exploration game. As such, what really makes UFO 50 stand out is not the way it is retro but the way it modernizes old tropes.

Playing these games doesn't feel like they were made by someone taking their first steps towards understanding game design - rather they feel like a creative outlet for someone feeling burnt out from spending years on large game projects. These comparatively tiny games (some can be played from start to finish in as little as 15 minutes) seem to have no room in a gaming industry that favors blockbuster titles over small yet imaginative projects. In a strange way, I found that spending hours on UFO 50 didn't make me nostalgic for the glory days of NES, but I found myself missing the Flash game scene where a small game with an interesting idea could unexpectedly find itself in front of millions of players around the world. As such, I hope UFO 50 can find itself an audience large enough to inspire a cottage industry of similarly high-quality titles.

Barbuta is game of the year
Bug Hunter is game of the year
Ninpek is game of the year
Paint Chase is game of the year
Magic Garden is game of the year
Mortol is game of the year
Velgress is game of the year
Planet Zoldath is game of the year
Attactics is game of the year
Devilition is game of the year
Kick Club is game of the year
Avianos is game of the year
Mooncat is game of the year
Bushido Ball is game of the year
Block Koala is game of the year
Camouflage is game of the year
Campanella is game of the year
Golfaria is game of the year
The Big Bell Race is game of the year
Warptank is game of the year
Waldorf’s Journey is game of the year
Porgy is game of the year
Onion Delivery is game of the year
Caramel Caramel is game of the year
Party House is game of the year
Hot Foot is game of the year
Divers is game of the year
Rail Heist is game of the year
Vainger is game of the year
Rock On! Island is game of the year
Pingolf is game of the year
Mortol 2: The Confederacy Of Nilpis is game of the year
Fist Hell is game of the year
Overbold is game of the year
Campanella 2 is game of the year
Hyper Contender is game of the year
Valbrace is game of the year
Rakshasa is game of the year
Star Waspir is game of the year
Grimstone is game of the year
Lords Of Diskonia is game of the year
Night Manor is game of the year
Elfazar’s Hat is game of the year
Pilot Quest: Return To Zoldath is game of the year
Mini & Max is game of the year
Combatants is game of the year
Quibble Race is game of the year
Seaside Drive is game of the year
Campanella 3 is game of the year
Cyber Owls is game of the year

This game is absolutely insane. With 50 FULLY REALISED GAMES, NOT JUST SHOVELWARE SLOP, you'll find at least a couple you like, even if some of them don't entirely resonate with you.

Oh, and do mind the first game. It's intentionally clunky to give that "Dev's first real game" feel.

This simulates going to a garage sale in the 90's and getting a NES and 50 games for 20 bucks, no manuals, no guides, and no wiki with three decades of datamining. This is possibly some of the highest praise I could give to a game.

To the younger players, sink a few hours into a game, and you start to understand how it works and you get better at it. Try to play every game and get a grip on it, meet it half-way. Don't give up.

UFO 50 is the real deal. The people who know, know exactly what that means. If you've played video games for the last 25+ something years, you owe it to yourself to play this.

The mad lads at Mossmouth have done it: they've gamified the concept of playing videogames. For anyone who enjoys digging through archived media, piecing together the connective tissue between the works, and falling in love when you least expect it. UFO 50 is more than the sum of its playable parts, it is a meditation on the world's strangest most fascinating form of entertainment and a love letter to the incredible people behind it. There is a reason why those bored business software engineers were destined to take that first bold step into a new realm of creativity and imagination. When given the right tools, art finds its way out of the soul. #1 Thorson Petter fan signing off.

I don't think there is ever going to be a 'perfect' moment to review this game. It is so notoriously BIG. Colossal. Monumental in size and scope.

In a nutshell what it is: A fake imaginary company has made a set of games for a imaginary machine called LX. These are the games that have been 'salvaged' (from a garage?). In reality it's like loading up a ROM set for some unknown console from the 1982-1989 era and diving in. Games reflect that.

So why should you care? If you are into anything retro then check it out but if you are having doubts then please look into gameplays and reviews. Some are refunding because they dont like the first game that is deliberately very plain. After all according to the fake development story 'it was made in secret as a side project at work and nearly got the dev fired'. And from there the fake game company story opens up as you play the 50 different games, all available to you right away. And the Meta.... there is actually a 51:st game as well that covers all the games but that is for the player community at large to find out and it will take time so if you want to contribute to this wild treasure hunt for meta and secrets buy in now and get into it.

For once here is a game that has not been spoiled to pieces yet and it will take considerable time before it is in such a state, the content is just so massive.

10/10 potential, GOTY 2024 potential and GOAT potential. Period. Impossible to give a proper x/10 grading now as my hours are not even close to what they should be.

This is super cool. There's so much there, and a lot of it is obviously fun right away. There are a handful that are more mechanically interesting and take a little time to suss out. The sheer variety and interesting variations on what you might expect is a huge accomplishment.

When I was a kid, I traded a prized game boy cartridge (can't recall which one) to a kid for a (bootleg?) foreign multicart game with a button on the back. It allowed you to hit the button to switch to a different game on the cart. The number of games was in the dozens, my little mind was blown by this. None of them were games that I'd known and there were a few gems in there that were actually compelling to play. This game reminds me of that treasure trove of games, or even going to distant relatives a few hours away and stumbling upon an epic collection of NES games I'd never played before. In this case however, most of the games are actually compelling and fun.

this game is crazy good, don't listen to the haters who booted up 'barbuta' and assumed every game was going to be like that. it is intentionally abrasive and clunky because it's the first game for the console and was developed in-universe by one guy in secret while the console was being developed (which is a wonderfully cool bit of storytelling expression in gameplay - in fact, you can see all of the games get more visually complex and more developed as the chronology goes on).

there is a truly impressive amount of variety on display here, and tons of unique ideas that are well worth $25. some of my favorites were Avianos (grid-based territory control strategy game), Night Manor (horror point-and-click adventure), and Waldorf's Journey (jump king-esque platformer) - but really, above all else, my favorite aspect of this game is the amount of stunning pixel art on display. every single game in this collection is dripping with style, and I spent quite a bit of my playtime (20 hours as of writing, barely scratched the surface of most games) marveling at how gorgeous these games are.

all of this fails to mention how many 2-player co-op and competitive games there are in here. bushido ball, avianos, quibble race - the list goes on, genuinely - this game has *insane* value for someone who is able to take advantage of the couch co-op 2P/3P modes.

highly highly recommend if you find games as an artform engaging or interesting at all. this collection is a real display of how beautiful and varied the medium can be. just make sure you read the game descriptions - you may find something extra hiding in there.

I can’t remember the last time it was so fun to discover a game’s mechanics in our tutorial-saturated, confusion-averse world. Not just once, 50 times!!

It’s frustrating and beautiful and delightful and I’ve barely even scratched the surface. I love it

Mooncat ftw

Quick disclaimer: with the games organized chronologically by default, the very first game is probably the most polarizing out of the entire collection. It's purposefully designed to be a slow, cryptic adventure styled as a dev's first game straight out of 1982. I'd recommend playing other things before giving "Barbuta" a try.

I'm only ~15 games in so far (3 beaten, 1 100%) but I'm already in love with this game. I don't want to talk too much about the specific content since there's so much charm in the mystery of booting something up and having no idea what you're about to play. I will say the range of genres is staggering and there is absolutely something for everyone. Of the ones I've tried, I've even played a game with an absolutely shocking genre I'd never considered possible (Golfaria). There's also a surprising amount of optional multiplayer content for both co-op and versus. If you're a big fan of the NES to SNES era, or got burned on a "50 games in 1" cartridge / plug-n-play as a kid, you'll fall in love with this.

Put simply: there are 50 games, and no bad ones. Not every game has been for me, but every one is of high quality, and almost all have a unique, inspired twist from its source material. Actually unbelievable that this (frankly insane) game collection was executed to this level of quality, and genuinely one of the best deals you can get on steam right now!

Hard not to recommend

I can see this game not being for everyone. The games do skew towards that charm of an era with minimal controller input and minimal handholding. But there is a lot of depth in the game design, and a lot of love that went into the music and the pixel art. The games seem simple on the surface, but mechanically there is a surprising level of craft. Found myself spending quite a while on just the first game as it has so many secrets to reveal. I could see myself spending hours on any one of these games, and there are 50 of them. They are surprisingly addictive. But if you are loyal to the formula of modern gaming with complex controls, realistic graphics, and gritty storytelling, this may not be the game for you. For those of us passionate about throwback gaming and games as art, this one is a masterpiece.

What is UFO 50

I'll admit unlike some people I had never even really heard of this project before a few months ago. I had no idea this was actually something that started development roughly 8 years ago. I can kind of see that making sense for this compilation based on what I've played so far., That is to say that nothing seems like dumped in shovelware so far. Basically for those a little skeptical, no, this is not like Action 52. This is something entirely unique and seemingly a labor of love. Also put together by a team of indie veterans.

Why is this unique? Aren't there tons of other compilations available? Indeed there are. But nothing of this magnitude. You've got really 2 types of compilations. On one hand you have compilations that feature games that were previously released by various publishers. And some of these are massive as well. It's not entirely a difficult thing to put together considering the games are already there and just need to be emulated or ported. Most of the work is already done. And then you've got original compilations, such as Retro Game Challenge, the Dread X series, Retro Game Crunch, etc... But those are typically small in comparison when it comes to number of titles. The closest I can think of is Arcade Paradise which has a collection of 35 included games. That itself is no small feat, but when considering the types of games, it pales in comparison since those are just games modeled after arcade titles, which aren't very big.

UFO 50 though not only ups the ante with more titles, but rather than being based on simple arcade games this entire collection is more representative to the quality and lengths of titles you'd find on home consoles during the mid 80s to very early 90s, more so on the 8-bit side. So that is to say systems like the NES/Famicom and Master System. So much like those consoles you'll find games here that are short, but also some that are quite lengthy and packed full of depth. But the packed in value is not really enough to make it unique on its own. There's also an entire meta surrounding this package. A fictional universe these games existed in where a studio called UFO came out and put out a ton of games, starting with the rough and archaic Barbuta and continuing to evolve and get better and better throughout the span of this fictional developers history on this fictional 8-bit machine. And they did not just become some 1 trick pony. No, UFO decided to branch out and explore tons of different genres. But also reviving the legacy of some games with their own sequels making franchises in the collection. And having crossovers with some games featuring cameos from other titles. This is basically a publisher compilation for a publisher that never existed.

But what about the games themselves?

Well, if you look at my total playtime at the time of writing this I think it's safe to say there's no way I have played through each and every game in the collection. I haven't even booted up every game to be honest. I've tried about 20 or so titles so far. Some of them I will admit did not click, but I'm willing to give them another chance. Some of them clicked immediately though. A few of them I'm sure I've already dropped more than hour into at this point without even scratching the surface of them.

some of the titles I've tried so far:

Warptank - A hybrid of puzzle action and shooting mechanics where you maneuver a tank (that oddly resembles the one from Blaster Master) around a series of stages to get to the goal in each one. The trick here is that the tank can jump from one side of a platform to the opposite side by warping. So they can go from ground to ceiling, or from a left wall to a right wall, as well as diagonally in some spots. Along the way there are your typical hazards like spiked walls, enemies constantly lobbing projectiles at you, exploding mines and more. This one really makes you think of which path to take, and there's also some secrets to find if you explore well enough. I had a lot of fun with this one.

Mini & Max - I will admit this is one of my favorites so far. You play as a girl who gets locked in a room with dog by one of her siblings while her parents are away. You along with your dog strangely have the ability to literally shrink. And shrinking in different parts of this room sends you to a new area ant man style. So while the room itself is kind of small, the actual game grows quite big. It's also a fun platformer with lots to explore, characters to interact with and more. It's also super adorable!

Valbrace - A first person dungeon crawler reminiscent of old school CRPG titles. Pretty straight forward if you know the genre. Explore a maze, fight monsters, level up, etc... The combat system is what I quite liked about this one. Instead of being turn based its sort of punch-out style. You move left and right dodging attacks and looking for openings to attack the enemy. Quite fun stuff.

Paint Chase - This is the "splatoon" type one you've heard about probably. It's pretty fun. You move around an arena in a vehicle painting the floor and attacking other vehicles who are painting the floor the opposite color. Some enemies don't attack you, while others can. At the end of the match you win if you passed a certain percentage of the floor covered in your paint. Pretty simple, but fun.

Fist Hell - This one's a beat 'em up that sort of reminds me of games like the Kunio Kun brawlers or Scott Pilgrim. Kind of has a visual quality that reminds me most of River City Ransom Underground in fact. It's not an easy one mind you, but quite fun still.

Vainger - This one's a Metroidvania apparently more on the Metroid side since you use guns. I have not gotten far into it, so I'm not sure how the later abilities will impact the game. Off the bat though it has a neat gravity mechanic where you jump if you press the jump button again you shift to the ceiling to make it now an upside down platformer.

Grimstone - A full fledged old school JRPG. Complete with party system, towns to explore, loot, weapons and armor, and more. Not sure how long it will be, but it's nice to see something like this in the collection.

Night Manor - This one was a surprise to see in a collection like this. It's a legit old school point and click adventure title, and it seems a lot of care was put into this. Looks to be horror themed and filled with the same type of mechanics you'd expect from a proper P&C title.

There's several others I've tried but the names escape me at the moment of putting this review together. Some of them were shoot 'em ups, some smash TV style games, a 4X strategy title, some action sports titles, and a lot more. Basically this collection has you covered on sheer variety.

So is it worth it?

Up to you. I think the value is amazing though. $25usd for a collection this stacked is something that does not happen often. And from the way it looks like this was put together we may never see something like this again. While not every game is going to be a winner, I'm sure for most people several will be.

Oh, and it works on the Steam Deck!

I was gifted a steam deck a few days before this came out. in the between period I configured my steam deck to support emulation and implemented a few gameboy roms into it.

The result of all 3 of these events converging all at once at the right time is that I have gone full circle, I am now once again 7 years old, standing in that square in Tøyen, recieving my gifted gameboy from my mom together with the cartridge "super 103 in 1" which included around 30 games and which starred warioland 1. I actually still have that cartridge to this day, its my oldest owned possession.... and now here I am, all over again. 7 years old once again... a massive black gameboy, but a gameboy nonetheless.

My advice would be to basically ignore reviews here which have put a couple of hours into this and dismissed it. I've put 11 hours in at time of writing, and still feel like I'm just scratching the surface. I've played at least 10 minutes or so of the first 20 games, and I thought they were all pretty good, or at least interesting, and a few of them I've put well over an hour into so far.

[Edit: I've sampled all 50 at this point, and stand by everything I've said. All I'll add to the below is:
*I want to go back to nearly all of them.
*I've prioritised about 10 games I -especially- want to go back to.
*At the time I wrote the initial review, I hadn't even played most of my favourites
*Isn't the terminal interesting?]

Only two games [four, now] are marked 'completed' so far and one of those seems to hide many more secrets than I was able to find first time around, and the other one has various challenge modes you can play after finishing the campaign. The other 18, I've got a long time to go, and the games seem to be getting deeper and more involved the further along the invented chronology of releases you go. I want to get a taste of the other 30 games before deciding which ones to hone in on and focus, but there's plenty here.

Unless you're the most determined completionist, you're not going to fall down a rabbit hole with every single release here. But that's fine! What struck me most of all wasn't just how many games there are, but the variety of ideas that are on display. Almost none of the games are straight imitations of things I've seen before, or ordinary takes on a genre. They nearly all have something that makes them quirky or interesting, and some of them play like nothing I've really tried before. It really is a homage to that time in the 80s when ideas could come from anywhere and nobody knew what would succeed. So the popular genres of the day influence these games, but it doesn't feel beholden to them.

If you're curious about how much it commits to the bit, I'd say... enough. These feel like retro games, but the graphics and audio are perhaps not quite as limited as you might expect from games in the early and mid 80s. It's authentic enough of a homage to that time without feeling like its hamstrung by technical limitations needlessly.

[Actually, more on this. Home consoles weren't really packing this much FM synthesis until a bit later, and I think it's fair to say these consoles would have been a beast for the time they fictionally came out. I'd also say the art styles takes influence from beyond the 80s, often looking like SNES games with a reduced palette. Finally, while they haven't really dated games in genres before they would have existed, they're definitely happy to pull certain design concepts from the future. Fun first, authenticity second, which is fine by me.]

It genuinely hurts me to say this, but... I didn't like it. Don't lynch me just yet!

I love the concept of this - 50 retro throwbacks in one? And (almost) all of them actually creative, fresh and thought-out? AND it's made by highly competent devs? Hell yeah, sign me up!
But then I played it... I'm sure to some extent it's just me (which is ultimately also why I decided against a negative review), but even though I'm generally a huge fan of retro and arcade gaming - hell, it makes up the overwhelming majority of what I play nowadays! - I think what I'm figuring out right now is that I don't actually like NES games.

Both home computer titles from before that era and console titles from after that era click with me much more than the particular space in time that this collection aims to emulate the feel of. (Successfully so, I might add!)

Point being - I'm sure it's good, but it's not for me. And should you also have some qualms with specifically NES/Famicom era gaming, you might want to do some more research before taking the plunge as well.
That said, I hope this game ends up being a huge success for all involved, because I genuinely do love what it's doing.


... Now you may lynch me all you like.

What if you could pay 20 bucks for a console you never knew existed and 50 of its games? That's what this is and the games are by extraordinarily talented devs. Incredible product.

UFO50 is a collection of 50 games that give off an 8 bit aesthetic with a variety of genres to play from.

I’m only writing this because this game deserves an applause from me. I originally was just buying it cause I saw that it had about 4? Or 5 shoot em ups in there and I had to know how long or how good they were. Turns out these cute little games are pretty decent. I have yet to try every single one of the games but it's so cool that some of the “epic” games they have feel like full-fledged games. Some games even have multiplayer as well.

I’ve played and cleared through two games in the shmup category called Star Waspir and Caramel Caramel. These two games, while a little short for a shmup, made me appreciate the effort they put into each category. The music in those games are pretty banger. I’d imagine it's the same for the others as well. I have a video if you would like to see the game.
https://youtu.be/pM-CjOJldLU?si=4GqyHqgtxKQz2r8d

I’m a sucker for these kinds of games with 8 bit aesthetics and will be dumping more hours.
Excuse me.

If you have time please check out the game :)

Do I have an enormous backlog of games that begs to be played, rather than have FIFTY games added to in one fell swoop?
Yes.

Do I need to see whatever new thing the guy that made SPELUNKY cooked up?
Also yes.

This is genuinely 10/10.

If you have any interest in games as an art form there isn't a better value game on Steam right now.

Incredible game design and super impressive attention to detail for the time period these games are a loving homage to.

But it's not just a homage, there's buckets and buckets of fresh, modern game ideas here.

I have only played 8/50 games so far and have fallen in love.

I was prompted to write this review because I saw one calling the games 'shovelware' which is alarmingly inaccurate. Y

You'll notice the few reviews calling the controls 'clunky' (they're not, they feel great) or bemoaning that it's not fun (it is) have less than an hour playtime. They don't get it, it's not for them.

There's so much passion on display here, it's clear to see that it has been made with love by gamers who care about their audience.

I'll update my review once I've played more but I can already tell that this is going to be talked about for years to come.

Stunning

An embarrassment of riches from a group of extremely talented developers, highly recommended. A few pointers:

-- The games are ordered chronologically according to the lore, so these at the start of the list are the more 'primitive' of the collection. If you bounce off those, try some of the later ones.

-- There's a filter at the bottom of the menu allowing you to narrow down on the more adventure/puzzle/arcade-orientated games as your tastes dictate

-- There's no instruction manuals, but figuring out what's going on in the more obscure games is part of the fun. Some of the games will show a brief demo if you leave them hanging on the start menu.

-- A few of the more approachable games, in my experience, are Party House (elegantly designed push-your-luck deckbuilder), Campanella 2 (roguelike where you swap between flying a spacecraft and on-foot sections), Pingolf (side-view arcade golf game) and Valbrace (first-person dungeon crawler with twitchy real-time combat)

I would like to thank the creators for their work and for creating this quite unique game, I would like to give a bit of context to what I write, so I will start by saying that I am not from the generation in which such games were created, I started playing seriously only around 2010/2011 and I have never had contact with retro games, I found out about UFO 50 a few days ago, at first I thought it was some kind of compilation of old retro games, but after a while I realized that it was a compilation of 50 new retro games, I saw who the creator was (Creators of spelunky, Downwell and Catacomb Kids) and I thought it looked really cool, I'm not a person who has nostalgia for such games, but rather is looking for something new, by the way it's a bit paradoxical that retro games can provide a new experience, when the 25 Dollars (80 PLN) was revealed, I already knew that I would definitely buy it to check it out, especially since I heard a lot of opinions about quality, complexity and length, a lot of secrets, etc.

I've barely started the game (A little over an hour), I'm playing in chronological order (According to the plot of the games, as they were published by UFO Soft, a company invented for the game), I've tried Barbut (The first game created by UFO Soft) and I was immediately hooked, the game doesn't lead by the hand, we only have a top-down goal, but what to do, in what order, etc. you have to guess!
For many it will probably be a disadvantage, but I think it's great! After all, you have to figure things out, think on your own, etc.

Barbuta is a platformer with metroidvania elements that drew me in for about an hour, I didn't finish it, I suspect I'm at the beginning because it's really difficult, I've died a lot of times, I'll definitely come back to Barbuta but that's in a while, I feel like I can spend a good few hours there, and UFO 50 has as many as 50 games! Probably there are shorter games, but it's still a whole bunch of games!

I can't wait to see what else the authors have come up with! What secrets they hid! It's a huge game, even though it seems so small! I thought it would be a much smaller game, but here I have already made an hour and for one game that I haven't finished anyway! :D

Something great! If you love retro games, then UFO 50 is for you! If you have never played such games but, like me, you are looking for something different, new and you don't mind retro style, you like difficult games, then this is the game for you! :D

In addition, I would like to thank you for adjusting the price to the Polish currency (PLN), since steam changed it in 2022 it is heavily outdated, inflated and causes us to pay practically the most in the world, I am very happy that I was able to contact the creator and explain our situation to him, thank you for adjusting the price to our currency! :D