Alien Earth 2

In Brief

A third person exploration game made with the Unity engine, where you locate a ship that has crashed landed on an alien planet.

The Game

I'll post a review of Alien Earth 2 just as soon as I've had the opportunity to play the game. It's currently available via Itch.io for a minimum of $5, but we get the game for free today. :)

The graphics are colourful levels to explore and bosses to beat. On your way you'll encounter lots of puzzles to unravel. You can see a video of game play HERE. The game reminds me a little of that classic adventure game Beyond Good and Evil

The game opens with a configuration window that allows you to choose your screen resolution, graphics quality (Fantastic, balanced or performance) and if you have a multi monitor display you can select which monitor to play from as well as to choose windowed or full screen. There is an input tab that tells you what keyboard bindings to use for game play:

Movement keys WASD or arrow keys
Fire 1 = Left Mouse button
Fire 2 = Right Mouse button or left Alt
Fire 3 = Middle Mouse button or left Shift
Submit = Enter
Cancel = Esc
Jump = Space

The game is also set up for joystick control


You can remap any key binding by double clicking on the key to be changed, then selecting the key you wish to be used.

If you fall into water you'll die and re-spawn near to where you died. The aim of the game is to find the crashed ship that accompanied you on your initial journey. To open doors you need to find special release plates and/or crystals, some of which are hidden from view behind secret doors, which can only be opened by finding the appropriate opening plate. These are easily identified becasue they look like wells with a glowing aura around them.

Also smash any stone crates that have a glowing symbol on them. I've not figured out why you need to destroy those crates yet and so far don't seem to gain anything from them. Some release plates open secret doors that hide the crystals required to open some doors. Crystals are red in colour. To activate them stand in front of them, this turns them blue. Once you've located all the crystals and activated them, the door should open. At the end of each level you will be faced with a boss. I spent a few attempts at killing the boss, but died each time, losing all my lives. When this happens you re-spawn in the vicinity of the area you died in with all your lives intact again. On my fourth attempt, I just ran past the boss and was able to proceed to the next level without having to kill it. Smaller enemies are relatively easy to kill.

Don't forget to check the giveaway game discussion forums HERE; especially Delenn's threads for non Steam and steam freebies. Apart from the latest Epic Game freebies (i.e. it's your last chance to get Enter the Gungeon, God's Trigger as they will be replaced later this afternoon (UK time Thursday 27th) with the 2016 release of Hitman {brilliant game} and the Shadowrun collection that includes three games - Shadowrun Returns (Base Game), Shadowrun Dragonfall - Director Cut (Base Game) and Shadowrun Hong Kong - Extended Edition (Base Game)). Also available via Epic is the third episode 3 out of 10, EP 3: "Pivot Like A Champion". (Check to see if Ep 1 & 2 are still available free)

There's also a free standing version of Whispering Willows directly from the developers site (Interact with the spirits of the dead, solve the puzzles of the mysterious mansion and help Elena find her missing father in the horror/adventure puzzle game: Whispering Willows.) and Indie Gala are offering an excellent post apocalyptic car racing /shooting game called Death Track: Resurrection which was one of the first games I purchased on Steam back in 2009. The Indie Gala version is free standing. For those interested in the Tom Clancy franchise, you can play Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege from 2pm UK time today (2:00 PM UTC+1 ) until September 4TH 9:00 PM UTC+1. You can find details of the free week HERE, it does require 82.3GB of free disk space and you logged into your uPlay account to be able to install it. It's available for pre-install now and goes live in a few hours.