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Out There: Ω Edition – Roleplaying Game Review
Out There: Ω Edition is a Roleplaying/Strategy game from StoreRider, first launched in 27th February 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 361+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Out There: Ω Edition Stand Out
5/5 – TouchArcade
5/5 – PocketTactics
9/10 'Gold Award' – PocketGamer
Grand Prize – DevGAMM Moscow 2015
Excellence in Narrative – DevGAMM 2015
Best Game Design Award – Casual Connect EE 2014
Excellence In Narrative Finalist – IMGA 2015
Best iPhone and iPad Games of 2014 – TouchArcade
Best Mobile Games of 2014 – Game Informer
Best Mobile Games of 2014 – Gamezebo
WARNING : this game is hard ! Check the forum for strategy tips : http://outthere.forumactif.org/
You are an astronaut awaking from cryonics not in the solar system, but… out there… in a far and unknown place of the galaxy. In Out There, you will have to survive, tinkering your ship with what you can gather drifting in the void, and spot garden planets to refill your oxygen supply.
Space is an hostile place ; dangerous and mysterious adventures will mark each step of your travel. You will not only meet intelligent species that won’t care about you, but also deal with ancient powers linked to your destiny and the fate of mankind itself.
Survival and understanding of what is really at stake in the galaxy is the core of what Out There has to offer.
Music by award-winning composer Siddhartha Barnhoorn (Antichamber, The Stanley Parable)
• Game Center : 59 achievements, leaderboard
• A dark and melancholic, hard sci-fi adventure
• Explore a freshly procedurally-generated galaxy every new game
• 350+ multiple choices handwritten game book adventures
• Epic main storyline with 4 different endings
• 10 spaceships with different specs to discover
• Crafting system with 20 alien technologies built from 15 materials
• Engage with alien life forms and learn their language
• No combat ! It’s you against the environment
• Eerie score by award-winning composer Siddartha Barnhoom (Antichamber, The Stanley Parable)
• Fantastic pulp comics graphics
• High replay value
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Out There: Ω Edition is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 1st October 2020
Recent improvements include:
• Return of the classic OMEGA title screen
• Fixed an issue with the synergy icons not displaying properly when switching view
• Added missing translations for alien words
• Fixed a bug when a technology is forgotten
• Fixed a bug when popups windows prevented some interactions even when they were not visible
• Stereo sound correction
• Fixed some text adventures bugs
• An alien can no longer be escorted to a planet that has been terraformed
• The human icon no longer displays an alien
• Return of the video intro when launching a new game
• Fixed issues with symbiotic extension on some ships
Download & Availability
Out There: Ω Edition is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Out There: Ω Edition on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
When we got our new iPhone we were forced to delete the app and couldnt find it on the App Store. Happy to have the game back.
So awhile back this game (which has been on all phones Ive had over the last idk- 9 years maybe) disappeared! We were super upset as it is one of 5 games we always have on our phone. But last week it reappeared!!! We are veryyy happy with that turn of events! We highly recommend the game to anyone who likes sci-fi, comics, exploration, rogue-lite RPG story driven games. It involves NO flashy colors and the soundtrack is very calming while feeling like-80s space lol. We mentin the light and soundscape bccI have awful migraines and this is one game we can play when we are miserable and cant sleep nor can we be in a bright room- it is also perfect if you are an insomniac or have anxiety. We never feel as if it is a waste of time and the story is neat. If the store still allows you to buy it it is well worth mkney and we highly recommend it.
EZ to understand and play; with virtually unlimited endings based on player choices. Nice graphics Good time. Well worth a couple bucks.
Out There is a masterpiece. It does so many things right, and avoids the pitfalls of other games. The whole thing is a labor of love, from the hand-drawn art to the gorgeous score, from the great writing to the fun mechanics of the game. We find ourselves coming back to this every time we want to get lost in another universe for a while.
Very nice story. Lots of imagination and possibility. The journal entries captivate the reader. New journal entries would make better. Thank you for the game. Still some bugs, but its ok. Cant wait for sigma theory.
We love this game however, there seems to be a bug where if you land on some rocky planets you attempt to drill and it wont let you. Theres seems to be an invisible confirm box slightly above the drill text box, once you hit it the character says we have the impression this alien wants to enter our ship but then the resource screen shows minerals as if you used your drill with no alien there. This sometimes results in a broken drill.
This game is a really fun and interesting little diversion. It is certainly challenging in the beginning, frustratingly so at times, but each excursion builds on each other making a wonderfully replayable experience.
The game is good and very interesting, but even when you played it like 30 times or so, learned most of the mechanics and act the best possible way, the game still randomly kills you – like, sends you to a star formation where you cant jump out from because your engines are not good enough (and youre stuck and have to restart) or you just dont meet a particular planet type on the way for a few steps and run of one of the resource (means, you die). Its like punishing you randomly while you didnt do anything wrong and you have to restart again and again. Its not right.
A well made game that's immersive but impossibly difficult. Great graphics, writing and music wont save this game from itself. Other reviewers have detailed the problem: gameplay is way too RNG.
The gameplay is novel, but high repetitive. You jump to a new star system and decide which planets to visit. There are 3 types of planet, each of which offers different resources, but each type costs you different resources to ours. Run out of any of three key resources and the game ends. There are tech upgrades that allow you to jump further, use less of a resource, and so on, but you find those randomly, and can lose them as well. Ive had long games where we only got 1-2 techs, and didnt have the resources necessary to install them. The game is very heavy on randomizationrandom events can easily end your game by, for example destroying your engines without the resources needed to repair them, or dropping you in a star system that you cant jump away from because you havent got the tech upgrades that allow for longer jumps. Star systems are mostly randomized so its easy to encounter a string of systems where you cant replenish your oxygen and so you die. There are four ways to win, but after 50+ play-throughs, Ive never even gotten close to one of them, and we shudder to think how rough this game would be on Moderate. The language system for dealing with aliens is fun but gets repetitive after a while, and the alien races are entirely interchangeable. So while we like the idea of the game, in practice its an exercise in frustration, because no strategy will overcome the effects of randomness, at least no strategy we can figure out.
A beautifully made game that's immersive and impossibly difficult. Great graphics, writing and music wont save this game from itself. Other reviewers have detailed the problem: gameplay is way too RNG.
Pro: Absolutely wonderful gameplay; The storytelling is excellent; The UI is precise. Con: The sound doesnt work. Nothing no music no sound effects. Even when the settings for sound maxed out. Its such a bummer. We guess they never finished that part.
Clearly some folks like this kind of thing, but in a typical game you only get to travel to a few stars. You either just didn't find enough fuel, oxygen, or took hull damage due to some random event. We just don't enjoy playing the beginning over and over. Who knew.
Good concept, but pretty buggy. It lost us when our only stack of helium got deleted with no confirmation.
Minesweeper in space. Stumble from star to star until you run out of resources. Then die. Somewhat tedious and definitely frustrating.
Random problems with no solutions. It gets tiresome quickly.
We like this game but its too hard to read the text on iPhone 11 Pro Max (we have 20/20 Vision).
We love this game. Great challenging gameplay, fascinating story, and satisfying endings. Seriously, this game is well worth the money. Dont listen to the RNG haters. If you play the game right, only the most outrageous RNG will ever kill you. The game is all about managing risk and balancing it with reward. Taking big risks or not preparing for a risk and then blaming RNG is wrong. P.s. Always probe to 10km, youll thank us later :P.
We struggled a lot with this game initially it felt impossible and unfair. However it finally clicked with us and we started doing a bit better. One thing that helped us was realizing that you can choose a new starting ship that youve unlocked by selecting new game instead of quick start. Anyway, we really like it now. The visuals, the music, the excellent writing, and even the challenge/RNG making you sweat. We would recommend it. Gotta love when youre late game and all your 20 stack of Omega gets jettisoned and then an alien destroys your sun probe and your extra inventory slots are destroyed, along with the items in those slots being lost in space. Yep.
Just want to thank the devs for picking them game back up. It was one of our favorites but when we got it on our iPhone X, it was improperly fitted. Not anymore! We cant wait to start a new run; thanks again.
We were reading some of the reviews on this game and we saw that quite a lot of them, possibly the majority, complain about RNG. RNG certainly is a big factor in this game but that is also where the strategy comes in. You have to plan and account for inevitable bad luck. You also have to plan for good luck. We feel that if you prepare enough, then you can get out of nearly every situation in this game, by installing specific technologies or by storing extra resources. Anyway, we loved this game and poured a lot of hours into it. It is difficult to complete but when you do it gives a lot is satisfaction.
The game is fantastic and worth the buy! Enjoyed playing this game long ago before the omega update and was pleased with the updates they have made. One problem we did have was it lagged once we upgraded to a new iPhone and was sadden but just had to wait a little for the great devs to Deliver optimizations :D! Now there are two bugs that we have gone through with the recent update starting with, when we want to drill a random planet it wont register then we press it a few more times and it acts like we went through dialogue and skips it like a missed event(love reading all the little events). Another was when we closed the game and came back later to resume and our ship had all bars at zero and screen prompt saying cancel and pressing it didnt do anything and ship was supposedly back at square one but could still see all planets we passed through. Other than that Ive been enjoying the game and recommend anyone to try the game.
As of now, the slowdown and choppiness present before is now gone. The runs like a dream on iOS 13+. We tested it on our IPhone 11 and IPad Air 3. With that being said, we are really enjoying this game. From the atmosphere to the music, you are going to be in for a treat. The story is the star of the show. Its a choose your own text adventure with a really unique art style. The game throws some resource management in for the survival part of the game. Traveling through space and visiting mysterious worlds consumes helium, oxygen, and iron. Those are your basic elements you need to keep an eye just to get around. Other types exist for crafting and events. People seem to complain about the difficulty. The fact that you can die at any moment is the draw of the game. You are exploring a vast alien galaxy….of course you are not invincible.
Thank yall for optimizing this for the new gen iphones!!! Still love playing this game.
We have been enjoying this game for some time, what we can say is at least it isnt a pay to win game, we are willing to pay one flat fee for an app but not games that drain your bank account dry. We havent won yet but we love the soundtrack (so beautiful) , thoughtful storyline, the graphics and strategy of mining resources to reach the star systems, also learning technologies etc. We really do wish there was a way to save your progress or an emergency universal resource (omega) to replenish a depleted resource because if you die even once because your hull collapsed or your fuel is exhausted, its back to square one no matter what , no matter how far along you have progressed in the game, no matter how many technologies you have learned, we have never died so many times in a game in our life( its usually the fuel depletion that will get you). The default ships cargo hold doesnt have very much capacity, so you cant just ours as much as you want unless you find a derelict spaceship w/ a bigger cargo hold. There are surprise jumps that can possibly happen on little to no fuel but once you finish the jump you cant refuel , even if there is a gas giant there , you need fuel to launch the probes. We think the game was designed to be almost impossible to win intentionally, we havent even tried it on the hard mode and easy mode is anything but that lol. We still love the game ,dont get us wrong, but winning has become an endless challenge. We want to play the sequels next but we first want to play through the original. This is just an honest review, Im not uninstalling this game any time soon, we have had it for some time across different devices, Android and IOS, we still absolutely love it, Great Job Developer.
Please apply for korean lanquage.
As we do enjoy the game and its difficult nature, we do have one complaint. No matter what Im doing in game, randomly the pause menu comes up. This is a constant (every 3 minutes) annoyance. It makes us second guess even playing.
The game plays well enough, but too many features are just a tease. When we return to supply needing fuel or oxygen, we get hull repaired , but nothing further. We cannot store materials anywhere but on our ship. Hence supply is just a tease. A planet is described as rich in fuel, but gives less fuel for each probe, and usually does not give enough fuel on the first probe, etc.. Hence rich in fuel is just a tease. Likewise, rich in metallic ores, etc. Briefly, there are dead ends everyhere we turn.
So far we have over 100+ plays on easy and we still havent come anywhere close to getting any ending, every run will start out great until some random encounter breaks all our equipment and then we run out of fuel due to somehow 10 solar systems in a row not having a single fuel source, or any other seemingly unlikely resource shortage. Its a great and simple game, but that simplicity also means that most of the time you just literally arent going to win, period. We want to like it but in retrospect its all pretty dull, all the ships are mostly the same (the stats are different but as far as we can tell it only makes a difference of 10 resource use max) , no ship ever has enough space to build the upgrades that make any late game survivable, and literally on the easiest mode its just impossible to win even after 100+ tries. Fix the RNG and it could be good, hell even just make it so that theres a higher chance for good RNG instead of a 90% chance to basically die instantly and a 10% chance to find 10 fuel floating around, just something that doesnt make it feel like youre just getting kicked in the teeth with every warp.
Love everything about the theme of this but the fuel economy is simply unfun. Glad we only wasted a dollar. It is way too easy to run out of fuel because everything takes fuel and you can enter systems with nine to harvest repeatedly and then you loose. Really disappointed.
This is a fascinating concept, beautifully executed, with great controls and a wonderful story. Its a real shame that it just isnt fun to play. Failure is built in to this type of game so failing a lot isnt the problem. It is the fact that playing it just isnt fun. You play, you die, new game world generated, repeat until you get lucky enough to unlock better ships. But thats the problem. It is such a chore to do anything with the starting ship that it just feels like a painful grind getting anything else unlocked. What Im saying is that at some point we realized we had been playing for an hour and was miserable. We wasnt having any fun. At which point we wondered why in the hell we were even playing this. Just move on. It isnt worth it.
Ill play the heck out of it and then get bored come back a couple months later and do it again.
Phenomenal game, super easy to pick up play and put down like 80 days or FTL but addicting enough to spend all night on as well. Received numerous additions/updates over the years , would love to see it get support for newer phones and use the full iPhone X/XR screen especially.
Not sure why this isnt more popular. Immersive resource management game that really made us feel like we were lost in space.
Beautiful graphics, great soundtrack and actually a challenge to start with. Most games these days are WAY too easy. We love that this one really makes you think.
This one of our all time favourite games but we would really love it to be updated so it can fit the iPhone Xs max display.
Its a nice challenge to complete and has high replay value.
We won! At least on the Endless Traveler playthrough. We feel we should have been able to continue from there, or at least given a choice to continue. Id have to restart from the beginning and we had just gotten in the swing of it! Thats our only complaint. Everything else was awesome, we love love love this game.
Completely random.. The gas probe sound completely sends our cat into a purring and kneading fit for 10 minutes. Ive never seen anything like it and its adorable.
Yep. Out there will fit brilliantly into iPhone X! Both the device and the game will contribute to each other, design wise. Please add iPhone X support!!!:).
Love this game, we only wish there was a new version out with more interactiveness. We will be on the look out.
Its hard at first, but stick with it. It adds to the experience. The sound, graphics and gameplay are all top notch. We hope they make more.
We play it on Easy mode because that's hard enough as it is. The game requires reading short narratives and your imagination but the writing is very good. We discovered we can connect complimentary technologies together by stowing them next to each other in your cargo hold. The dramatically increases their power.
The game has a decent replayablitity to it that most IOS games don't have, we enjoy it almost every time even with how frustrating it can get. We don't come across any bugs or glitches, and that's always a bonus in our book.
It is our favorite, most in depth ios game of all time.
This is really good game, had to switch to easy.
So good. Countless hours of playtime. Love it. Will continue to play on the daily.
We can't find anything wrong with this game! It is so filled with depth, especially for an iOS game. This game is like FTL, except 10 times better. Definitely worth the money.
We had a really enjoyable time playing this game despite its difficulty but we had to quit when, after a few hours of playing it, the game started lagging and bugged out. When we restarted the game the frame rate had dropped so much that the game was unplayable as it no longer ran smoothly. We restarted our phone, restarted the game, made a new game entirely… Nothing. That quickly became extremely frustrating, so we couldnt continue playing.
The only reason we're writing this, is quite literally because reviewers say dumb things like, "c'mon, we paid a whole dollar for this!" As if paying 99c gives you the right to act like a child. A pack of gum costs more than this piece of software that someone lovingly made, poured their passion into and continued to support it with updates both graphically and gameplay-wise. If you don't like something, that's your prerogative, but could we stop pretending that paying 99c for something is akin to losing your savings, or is a crime on humanity? C'mon people, we can do better than this. For the record it's worth it a full price. 99c sale is a steal. As far as the game goes, is takes a certain appetite to appreciate it, but if it's your thing,it is a really good example of a resource strategy game that has a unique perspective with a great melancholic ambience.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.2
- Size: 274.18 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: StoreRider
Last updated: 1st October 2020 | Genre: Roleplaying, Strategy | Developer: StoreRider