Status timebias Oct 18, 2022
I’d been intending to play this game since the time of its retail release (over a decade ago!); I came to think of it again while reading about the Wintermute Engine. Turns out that the devs released it on Steam in 2015 (once they ended their relationship with their German publisher) and then made it free in early 2020 …
I’d been intending to play this game since the time of its retail release (over a decade ago!); I came to think of it again while reading about the Wintermute Engine. Turns out that the devs released it on Steam in 2015 (once they ended their relationship with their German publisher) and then made it free in early 2020 (following the closure of Turmoil Games as a legal entity).
Turmoil Games were a small group of young, enthusiastic, and inexperienced developers based in northern Finland who created Alpha Polaris over two years. A 2015 Reddit post by one of the team members, detailing a few things they learnt during the process, is worth reading.
I might write a full review later in the week. It’s not bad for a debut game, if you like traditional graphical adventures – I think the Grouvee users who tagged it as ‘Trash’ and ‘Fucking bullshit’ were needlessly harsh. (Although apparently Super Mario 64 has been classed as the former, and Amnesia: The Dark Descent the latter, so…)