Amazing Discoveries In Outer Space (2016) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Amazing Discoveries In Outer Space

A space-flight game using platforming and physics for the PlayStation 4. Embark on an odyssey through the galaxy where physics-based space-flight and platforming action blend seamlessly together. Explore a…

59 2 February 2016

What Amazing Discoveries In Outer Space is

Amazing Discoveries In Outer Space is an adventure game developed by Cosmic Picnic and released in 2016. It is available on PlayStation 4 only. It runs on Custom built engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

A space-flight game using platforming and physics for the PlayStation 4. Embark on an odyssey through the galaxy where physics-based space-flight and platforming action blend seamlessly together. Explore a colorful universe filled with amazing discoveries, alien races, and fashionable hats. Unfortunately, your only company is ZING, a navigation computer with no memory of your whereabouts and a slightly faulty social circuit.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Amazing Discoveries In Outer Space holds a critic score of 59 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 9 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Amazing Discoveries In Outer Space launched on 2 February 2016, within three weeks of The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2 and Yakuza Kiwami. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: The Witness, Firewatch, XCOM 2, Yakuza Kiwami.

Official trailer