N.E.U.F.O

In Brief

N.E.U.F.O is a short retro platformer.

The Game:

N.E.U.F.O is a short side scrolling platformer with retro looking graphics and is another of those cheap £0.79 games that you'll find on Steam and released by Nekyau Games. There is no main menu or options, just a New Game and Exit button. Once in game the only way to exit is via the icon in the task bar or by ''Cntl - Alt - Del''; then close via the task manager. The only review of the game, (which 'unsurprisingly' is negative) is in Russian. The reviewer scored the game 0 out of ∞ (infinity) and went on to say that even the most dexterous person would be unable to finish this game due to bugs and the broken nature of the game. Basically we have a game similar to the game given away by the same developer six days ago called Run, Run, Monsters! except N.E.U.F.O is set in space, where you jump from asteroid to asteroid collecting miniature galaxies and exit to a different galaxy via the milky way. Above the exit galaxy you will see how many mini galaxies you've collected.

Along the way you may be attacked by weird looking cloud like structures that move in a pseudo random nature. If you are touched by one of these structures they send you to the beginning of the game. If you fall (yes, we have gravity in space in this game) into the abyss, you also start from the beginning. According to the Russian reviewer, if you fail on any of the later levels you also start from the beginning. I became extremely bored of this game very quickly, but persevered for around 20 minutes of game play and still hadn't made it out of the first level due to the poor level design. I deleted the game as it gave me no positive vibes. You can see the only review via Steam HERE. As it is in Russian, you may need to change your filters to see the review, I used Google translate to read the review.

Control:

You can use the following keyboard keys to control your ship

↑ = Jump
← = Move Left
→ = Move Right

Despite my repeated dismounts from the same platform, there really is no challenge to this game and it becomes boring very quickly. You can see a couple of videos of game play via the Steam store page HERE and Falcoware HERE.

The Steam description (see link to Steam above for reference details), says:

''The action of this platformer takes place in distant space, among the stars and comets. You play as a fun alien, the task before which is not easy - to surf the expanses of space and collect for your planet small galaxies, In the open space is full of danger - meteorites, mysterious black holes and terrible cold. It will take considerable courage and dexterity to collect all the constellations and return to the ship. Gather all your strength and agility into a fist and help the stranger to get home!'' ...... and is tagged as an indie action adventure game. Seriously!!!!

The gamer installs to C:\Program Files (x86)\N.E.U.F.O by default. If you choose not to install the games desktop shortcut, you'll still get the four Falcoware shortcuts installed, but these can safely be deleted.