

It did the trick and then some.Īs I write this review, I’m seriously considering starting up a third playthrough.” I came in with little to no expectations – heck, I could barely get the name right – and really just hoped for a decent little game to break me out of a post-holiday-break malaise. “It’s presumptuous to make this call so early into 2020, but here goes: Journey to the Savage Planet stands a very real chance of being one of my most pleasant surprises in video games this year. Onward to adventure! Good luck – and mind the goo!

Launched with high hopes but little equipment and no real plan, your job is to explore, catalog alien flora and fauna and determine if this planet is fit for human habitation. As an employee of Kindred Aerospace, which proudly touts its rating as the 4th Best interstellar exploration company, you are dropped onto an uncharted planet deep in a fictitious, far away corner of the universe. Journey to the Savage Planet in an upbeat first-person adventure game set in a bright and colorful alien world filled with weird and wonderful creatures. Players will explore a mysterious (and, presumably, savage) planet as a newest employee of Earth’s “4th Best interstellar exploration company.” Cataloging animal life, exploring alien ruins, and battling slimy boss monsters are all on this space jockey’s to-do list.Ĭritics are split right down the middle on this budget game (it’s priced at $29.99), but all of them had at least a few positive things to say about it… You might see a passing resemblance to Hello Games’s No Man’s Sky and Obsidian’s The Outer Worlds in the game, though some critics point to Nintendo’s Metroid Prime as another inspiration. Journey to the Savage Planet is the debut game from Typhoon Studios, and it’s best described as a space adventure with a colorful art style and a whimsical sense of humor.
