Milkmaid of the Milky Way
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a classic puzzle adventure game where you play Ruth, a young woman living alone on a remote farm in a faraway fjord in 1920's Norway. Life is hard, work is tough, and Ruth wonders…
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an adventure developed by Machineboy, released 4 January 2017 on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS and Linux. It currently starts at $1.19 at GOG.
What Milkmaid of the Milky Way is
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is an adventure game developed by Machineboy and released in 2017. It is available on Nintendo Switch, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB E10+ age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Milkmaid of the Milky Way is a classic puzzle adventure game where you play Ruth, a young woman living alone on a remote farm in a faraway fjord in 1920's Norway. Life is hard, work is tough, and Ruth wonders; Is this the life I want? Then one day a huge spaceship arrives, turning her world upside-down. Milkmaid is a game with a heartfelt story of a young woman breaking free and finding her own place in the universe, all wrapped up in lovely 90s style handcrafted graphics. It's also written completely in rhyme!
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are fantasy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 6 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Milkmaid of the Milky Way holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core Duo, 2 GB RAM and Intel HD 4000. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $1.19 at GOG, 80% below its usual price.
What it launched against
Milkmaid of the Milky Way launched on 4 January 2017, within three weeks of Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony and The Walking Dead: A New Frontier. All of them reviewed better. It was a Nintendo Switch launch-window title.
Released around the same time: Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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