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Little Orpheus (2020)

The Chinese Room

Mac · Nintendo Switch · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 4 · Xbox One · iOS

2.73 from 26 ratings

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An impossible adventure awaits in Little Orpheus, the brand-new adventure from award-winning studio The Chinese Room, a Sumo Digital Studio, available from today exclusively on Apple Arcade. From the BAFTA-winning team behind Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and Dear Esther, Little Orpheus is a side-scrolling adventure game about one comrade’s journey to the centre of the Earth. The year is … Read more
An impossible adventure awaits in Little Orpheus, the brand-new adventure from award-winning studio The Chinese Room, a Sumo Digital Studio, available from today exclusively on Apple Arcade. From the BAFTA-winning team behind Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and Dear Esther, Little Orpheus is a side-scrolling adventure game about one comrade’s journey to the centre of the Earth. The year is 1962. NASA are trying to put a man on the moon but in a remote corner of Siberia, a Soviet cosmonaut is heading in the other direction. Ivan Ivanovich is dropped into an extinct volcano in his exploration capsule, Little Orpheus, to explore the centre of the earth. Ivan vanishes, emerging three years later claiming to have saved the world. In a top-secret bunker, he is debriefed by the fearsome General Yurkovoi. Little Orpheus casts players as Ivan as he recounts an adventure beyond belief: a tale of lost civilizations, undersea kingdoms, and prehistoric jungles deep below the Earth’s crust. Brought to you in glorious technicolour with visuals inspired by a bygone era of adventure, Little Orpheus is a serialised adventure inspired by classic movies like Flash Gordon, Sinbad and The Land That Time Forgot. Read less
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Details

Developers
The Chinese Room
Publishers
Sumo Digital
Genres
Adventure, Platform, Puzzle
Themes
Action, Fantasy, Kids, Science fiction
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Release dates

  • Jun 12, 2020 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Mac, iOS
  • Sep 13, 2022 (Full Release) (Worldwide) Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, Xbox One
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giopep

Review giopep 4/5 · Nov 29, 2022

Little Orpheus is exactly the game I imagined when I found out that "the people who made Dear Esther" made a game kinda like Another World. Puzzles basically solve themselves, platforming is almost automatic, there's no effort at all requested to the player and it really shines in its sense of spectacle and its really good, funny, writing. To be …

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Little Orpheus is exactly the game I imagined when I found out that "the people who made Dear Esther" made a game kinda like Another World. Puzzles basically solve themselves, platforming is almost automatic, there's no effort at all requested to the player and it really shines in its sense of spectacle and its really good, funny, writing. To be fair, "funny" is not exactly what one would expect from "the people who made Dear Esther", so I guess it's also a surprising game!

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WardCove

Review WardCove 4/5 · Jan 29, 2021

Fun story with little gameplay

3.5⭐ overall

Let's go to the center of the planet!

Ivan Ivanovich is a wonderfully fun character. I was constantly smiling at his story that he tells and his interactions with the general (and the generals responses) were genuinely funny and endearing. Loved it. The graphics and backdrops were utterly stunning and filled to the brim with life and art. …

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3.5⭐ overall

Let's go to the center of the planet!

Ivan Ivanovich is a wonderfully fun character. I was constantly smiling at his story that he tells and his interactions with the general (and the generals responses) were genuinely funny and endearing. Loved it. The graphics and backdrops were utterly stunning and filled to the brim with life and art. Loved it. Where this game unfortunately fell a little flat was in the gameplay department.

I found myself pretty much just holding the analouge stick left or right. Maybe a jump here, or a mindless "puzzle" there, but there really was not much gameplay to speak of. I was expecting a little bit more of a puzzle platformer and not a 2d visual novel. With that being said if you go into this realizing there is not much significant gameplay I do think you will find yourself enjoying it overall more than I did.

Again, to reiterate, graphics good. Atmosphere, good. Voice acting, good. Story, good. Gameplay below average. I do still think this is worth trying though.

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