Game Information
Game Title: UFO 50
Platforms:
- PC (Sep 18, 2024)
Trailers:
Developer: Mossmouth
Review Aggregator:
OpenCritic - 90 average - 100% recommended - 8 reviews
Critic Reviews
UFO 50 will remind you why you fell in love with video games in the first place.
A collection of new-old sports games, RPGs, platformers and puzzlers: what is all this sweet work worth?
UFO 50 is a celebration of retro gaming, full of wonderful modern ideas, sensational video games and a whole lot of content.
A superb retro-style smorgasbord in real danger of drowning out its own consistently good work.
Rock, Paper, Shotgun - Unscored
The 1980s reimagined as a collection of 50 “small” games, ranging from arcade racers to full-blown RPGs.
Faux retro compilation UFO 50 is a can’t-miss release.
You’ll occasionally come across signs bearing dreamlike musings: “the sea shells form a bridge between us,” “there is a dark shape on the horizon,” and so on. As you travel further, the wind changes direction and the evening sky shifts from orange to purple. Platforms get sparser and require leaps of faith or hope. And when you inevitably miss and Waldorf falls into the sea, he wakes up on an ice floe, surrounded by sleeping walruses, waiting to dream again. It’s the clearest example of UFO 50’s willingness to experiment paying off in something as fun to play as it is interesting conceptually, but in a crowded field, it’s far from the only one.
Sitting down with this collection is stepping into an alternate timeline, and having 50 timeless 8-bit gems dumped into your lap. The level of variety, and the incredible quality of each game, make UFO 50 an absurd value. For anyone looking to experience the magic of video games, I can’t stress enough how excellent UFO 50 is. It is an out-of-this-world collection.
I did not know this one was so close to release! I am glad to see that it is awesome, and now I don’t want to know anything else about the game because I want to be surprised!
I didn’t know about this game until today when an interview with the dev popped up on my podcast subscription feed, it looks good! I might have to go in blind
