Разработчик: Hungry Planet Games
Описание
Summary
In the far future, humans explore and colonise space using ridiculously deadly, moon-sized trains - 'Astro Locomotives'. They're operated by enormous, competing railroad companies and train vs. train combat is (expensively) common.Take control of a mistreated mechanic and a swashbuckling pilot as you try to save Gilbert Station from destruction at the hands of an alien death fleet!
Features
- Classic 1990s adventure gameplay! Inspired by genre classics such as Space Quest, Monkey Island and Day of the Tentacle.
- Trains. In space. That's worth the entry price, right there.
- The funniest writing in an adventure game this side of the millenium. That might be a positive or a negative, depending on how much you enjoy laughing until you dribble.
- Two playable characters for the price of one.
- Fully voiced! You'll also be able to turn the voice-over off, since we know some of you like to do that. Just know that every time someone ticks that particular box in the game settings, we'll kill one of our voice actors.
- Fully soundtracked! You won't be able to turn the music off. In fact, the volume slider starts at 100% and it only goes up from there.
- The 'unique' graphical style of subAtomic and Plan M!
- Interesting puzzles and minigames! We know a lot of you adventure gamers out there like to actually have some challenge in your games. For everyone else, just curl up tight, hold down your Escape key, and hope it ends soon.
- 20 in-game achievements to be unlocked, if you have nothing better to do.
- An entirely reasonable retail price!
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS: Windows ME or higher
- Processor: Pentium 700Mhz or higher
- Memory: 64 MB RAM
- Graphics: 640x400, 32-bit colour
- DirectX: Version 7.0
- Storage: 180 MB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX-compatible sound card
Отзывы пользователей
One of the funniest adventure games that I have played in my entire life. Too bad is too short, but worth playing nevertheless.
There's quite a few ways to do the best humour. Astroloco knows that understated, straight face comedy definitely belongs among them. Pleasant absurdity of the story and situations, void of shoving obnoxious hilarity down your throat, is refreshingly yummy treat here. It's accomplished not only by talented writing, but also by surprisingly good voice-acting, perfectly congenial in aforementioned pregnant dryness.
The game is well-written and actually fun, and the puzzle design is good. The shout-outs are endearing as well.
I can live with the MS-Paint graphics, especially given the charm of the pixel art. My only gripe is that there is not more content / more games from the same creator.
Timeless.Fun.
silli gaem. recoumend
Witty British point-and-click misadventure featuring space mechanics, space pirates, space trains and space train drivers.
What more could you want?
A fluffy (is that even the correct way to use that word here?), fun story about a mechanic and a pilot with lots of pixel sex. Kidding. There's only a little bit of pixel sex. Kidding again. There's a scene with a planet with a giant hole in it. Naughty.
Tags: Adventure - P&C - Point and Click
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
Troubleshooting notes : Another Adventure Game Studio Engine Game, AGS.Managed to get this to boot by enabling side and top borders, removing windows mode and having a 2x neighbour filter for 1900x1200
TLDR: Short with somewhat poor execution. Has its moments but feels episodic and unfinished. Try-hard at times. Unmemorable.
A few hilarious scenes here and there but pretty flat experience overall. I am not sure the three or so hours you get are worth it. The game is audiovisually poor, game self aware humor will get a smirk out of you at best and the whole setting and storyline feels convoluted and confused. This almost feels like an episode in an episodic series and it comes from and goes nowhere.
Astroloco starts out cringe-worthy as it explains the premise of it`s sci fi setting. Thankfully the exposition for the game's setting is soon over and it gets much better from there as the game drops all pretense at taking itself seriously. It is fairly humorous, voice acting is clearly home made but entertaining. I recognize some in-game music being chopped of track of another point and click game (Kyrandia).
Character sprites are awful even in contrast to the MS-Paint style backgrounds. Plot is short and for the most part divided into fairly easy to follow tasks that require mostly low puzzle solving ability, which is good as puzzles isnt what you would want to play this for. It makes references to classic games of the genre, and has mostly a space-janitor/roger wilco theme along with trains and british flavor thrown in.
I had a few genuine laughs, the autotuned robot and that whole sidecharacter was comparably underdevelopped. Basically a collection of small inventory puzzles in different sections with a NPC acting as a in-game journal to keep track of whats left to do.
Some of the humor about overcomplicated unionized rules or overzealous security officers felt sufficiently modern and different but have a certain political slant to it that will not have universal appeal. The ikea assembly joke was fairly funny. A lot of the puzzles however were just a tad flat.
Conclusion: While I didnt have such a terrible time playing it through once. I do have a lot of nostalgia for this genre and format which helped me stay motivated. Mostly having me reminisce of better games from the golden era of point&click adventuring. It is definitely not a game that you would want to keep in your permanent library, replay many times and you are not missing much at all by skipping it altogether.
Good games to kill 3 hours.
Neat pixel art adventure game that pokes fun at itself and similar adventure games with a moderately fun, British humour. Pretty quick to beat but the content makes it somewhat worth the price. I'm looking forward to a sequel if the dev team comes down to announce it someday.
Worst Contact is very interesting with a lot of easter eggs and it is very funny finally The Developer in my opinion has a very excellent creative art.
Recommended
Astroloco: Worst Contact is a point and click adventure styled after 16-bit advneture games. That being said for the price I can't not recommend this game. Its fun, slightly funny (off beat humor) and casual as can be.
Pros:
1. Easy to learn controls
2. Slight humor makes some more tedious tasks enjoyable
3. Best 16-bit graphics that 32-Bit can render
4. FUN!!
5. Price
Cons:
1. No widescreen options limited to 4:3 ish scales
2. Cut Scenes
3. Limited controls for volume, screen, and controls (once again point n click)
4. Has option to mute commentary (not Bad) but then I have to read all the Voices aloud when I'm let's Playing it.
Other than that I have thouroughly enjoyed playing the 1st ACT and am looking forward to checking out the rest of the game!!
Genuine British humour! I laughed more with this $5 game than with many $50+ standup comics...
Aproximate quotes:
- ATTENTION PLANET, PREPARE FOR PENETRATION! [Female pilot goofing arround on loudspeaker, toward what she believes to be an uninhabited planet]
[Planet gets poundered. Turns out planet was inhabited. Hostile reply from the planet population, who refer to the ship as a "Death Machine".]
- Our first impression could have been better. [Onboard computer pointing out the obvious on a unemotional voice.]
- You should consider taking those diplomacy classes ma'am. [Onboard computer, later on.]
- Don't you think it's unsafe to store missiles in a living complex? [Engineer]
- Nope! [CEO]
- What are you cooking? ... Seriously, smells like something died in there. [Engineer to the Chef]
- Come on! I have to clean the bathroom after people get to eat your food! [Engineer to the Chef]
It's a short and silly adventure game. The trailer is a good representation really. It's story-heavy and the puzzles aren't particularly taxing although I did get stuck at one point because an obstacle wasn't really an obstacle. Its main goal seems to be humour, and it made me laugh a lot so it's done its job! There's even a joke in the options screen that made me chuckle.
It looks like a programmer has drawn it in MS Paint. Mostly that's fine, it's a comedy game after all, but the characters do look a bit out of place being so pixelly. The voiceovers are fine I think, though I'm not picky.
Took me about 3 hours to play through - there are achievements you could aim for, but I'm not really interested in replaying to get them. I enjoyed playing it once, but a second time wouldn't really add anything.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Hungry Planet Games |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 20.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 93% положительных (14) |