Last updated on December 13th, 2025 at 06:58 am
Outsider: After Life – Puzzle Game Review
Outsider: After Life is a Puzzle/Entertainment/Adventure game from Rogue Games, Incorporated, first launched in 1st July 2020.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 295+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Outsider: After Life Stand Out
Outsider is an adventure mystery in which you solve brain-teaser puzzles to unravel the story.
Humanity disappeared centuries ago. The Escape Initiative—our last-ditch chance to survive—failed. But among the ruins of a mysterious science complex, an accident restores power to a unique robot who might be the only one who can save the universe.
Journey with HUD-ini through an emotional story, using logic to unravel this maze of varied puzzles in an immersive world brought to life with beautiful, detailed visuals, and an ambient soundtrack.
Features
- Simple swipe-based gameplay
- Solve a variety of unique puzzles to advance
- Unravel mysteries and save the universe in a riveting science-fiction narrative
- Gorgeous graphics brought to life with incredible detail and animation
- A dark, atmospheric soundtrack drives home the original story
ABOUT THE DEV:
Once a Bird is the studio behind games like Bennu, Attack of the 50ft Verbose Dinosaur, Fold and Outsider. It consists of Ricardo Moura, a programmer, Tiago Lourenço, an illustrator, and Jo Pereira, a musician. We're committed to making original and fun games.
AWARDS & NOMINATIONS:
Indie X 2019 – Best Portuguese Game winner
Game Connection Europe 2019 – Best PC Game, Best Casual Game and Best Quality of Art nominee
DreamHack Summer 2019 – Best Arthouse Game
PlayStation Talents 2018 – Best Portuguese Game nominee
Eurogamer Summer Fest 2018 – Best Portuguese Game nominee
More Great Games by Rogue: https://bit.ly/RogueGamesInc
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This Puzzle game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Outsider: After Life is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th May 2021
Recent improvements include:
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More puzzles! Deeper narrative!
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Also contains several control improvements and bug fixes.
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If you already finished the game we recommend restarting it in the options menu.
Download & Availability
Outsider: After Life is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Outsider: After Life 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:
We love the story and the graphics are amazing. Really impressive and fun game.
Relaxing puzzles that also work to push along an original story within a unique sci-fi ambiance, yet leave you thinking about the ironic humanity within and wondering more about the protagonist and can't help but want to know more. Great job! Sincerely.
Very surprised and impressed with the story and what was done with delivery.
As an avid fan of puzzle adventures (a genre of games that is severely lacking in quality in apple games) we downloaded this one at random, honestly prepared to be a bit underwhelmed being fresh off some of the flashier amanita etc games- dont sleep on this one, yall! Despite being less intensely animated, we found it totally engaging and very relaxing to play. The brain teasers were challenging but without making us pull hair out of our head- perfect game for a rainy day. We would love to see a more updated sequel with a more open world concept, with puzzles you feel like you stumbled upon. Fun game.
This game is great we play it every once in awhile, mainly Because we dot want it to end, but also do to a busy schedule. Great to keep your mind running but not an hectic kind of way. So you can just feel at peace while completing some kind of mind strategy and coordination games.
We dont write reviews very often but this is worth the money.
There is nothing we would say negative about this game. We enjoyed it from start to finish. Money well spent.
Wonderful, stylish little puzzle/adventure game. In a sea of mediocre ios game, this is one of the pearls. Glad we found it.
Interesting game that is suitable for gamers of different age.
We are absolutely in love with a cool retro feel of Outsider and the puzzles have been pretty interesting as well.
This was great! Puzzles were tough now and then but a really relaxing, fun game to play. Would have liked it to be longer but it was still worth it. Great job.
The premise is very interesting, although it would have been nice to have a little bit more lore, like another location or two in [the first large area] with more puzzles and information, or another new puzzle section for the large ship. The graphics can be a little crusty, at least on our device, but its enough to tell the story. The puzzles work pretty well and are very novel and interesting, although it can get a bit repetitive with some of them having 5-10(?) iterations one after the other. It might have been good to break some of that up, but that might not work with this particular story flow. Overall its a very interesting game though. We dont usually buy games, but if you have the extra money its pretty decent.
Beautiful graphics and story. Sound effects and music are a treatdefinitely play with sound on. Puzzles are fun and not too difficult. But, Controls are boring and game is VERY short. We dont regret buying this game, but am a bit disappointed.
We are at the portion of the virus puzzles where there is no way to win. This level is not winnable.
We just finished this in two hours, and we have no clue as to what the plot was about. We feel like Im reviewing a David Lynch movie. Save your money.
The puzzles were easy and boring. Very cheaply designed. Took about an hour to complete.
We just started playing today and so far Im lovin it! The graphics are nice and the puzzles are super engagingsome are easy; some not so much. What Ive played in the last 20 minutes is worth paying for and Im not even done yet. As far as gameplay goes, the price seems reasonable but thats up for interpretation. We hope the developers continue to make more because Ive already got and itch for more.
We were hesitant about getting this game but let us say this it was well worth the money, and then some. The puzzles were very different, some were very challenging, but overall the game was super fun. It is definitely one of a kind escape type game. We absolutely LOVED it. Ive played every type of escape game from the very best like Rusty Lake and House of DaVinci, to the very worst. This game is on our list of favorites. If you are reading this review and are contemplating getting this game, do it, we promise you will love it.
If you enjoy solving puzzles and being taken on a journey, buy this game. Its fun, not like anything else, and even if it only takes you four or five hours to play, isnt a game worth less than a dollar an hour for an immersive experience? Lets give the inventive developers the credit they deserve. Great game! More please.
We love the art and polish on this tricky puzzler. The puzzles are tricky at first but seemingly so simple in review. The original music tracks bring this game to life! Its well worth the price, just wish there was more.
We really enjoyed playing this game. Only downside is the game only took us a few hours to complete. Puzzles werent to difficult but made you think. Story was a little hard to follow. Controls could use some work. Overall it was decent, hopefully the developers will add more to the story and some new levels.
We thought the game was just getting started when the credits started rolling.
Edit: That one bug is the only one we ran into, though the heart node puzzle seemed to be acting up when it seemed to work fine last night. Also, its an extremely short game, about two hours. Dont interact with the cable outside the auditorium because the camera gets stuck on there. While we were able to enter the auditorium, the game breaking glitch came after we finished the projector puzzle when the camera switched to the cable and we couldnt seem to interact with anything other than the menu. Theres also an odd reverberation with some dialogue like when talking about the machine that boots up the android.
Game freezes, does not have a save feature, if there is no way to get out of the unresponsive mode, then you can only restart it. Im not willing to throw away all Ive done to this point. Too glitchy to be a good game.
Overall the story was good with how it was vague and was left with open to interpretation but the controls are sensitive and buggy on a lot of the puzzles.
Not long to solve all the puzzles, but cool game. Not worth the price imo.
If Im in the middle of a puzzle and jump to another application or sit our phone down, the puzzle is frozen when we come back to it. The only way out is to relaunch the game and start the puzzle over from the beginning. This has happened on several different puzzles and was so annoying that we deleted the game. You shouldnt charge money for a game that has obvious bugs like this.
Im stuck staring at the wall with writing on it and cant move away from it. Nothing we have tried helps! Id give it 5 stars if there was a way to move.
Short overall and filled with repetitive puzzles that dont add up to much. It felt like this game was trying a little too hard in the wrong places. Poor gameplay for a….. Game.
We were really enjoying this until one of our clamps disappeared in the section with lights traveling down tubes that have to reach the end at the same time. There were 2 clamps. Then we accidentally hit return (way too easy to do) and when we came back there was only one clamp, so the puzzle isnt solvable. Bummer.
These puzzles are terrible. There is nothing in the game to to help you figure out what youre supposed to do and we just spent 15 minutes on the fusion battery nodes watching them bang into each other with no idea on how to fix it. Not fun. We like puzzles and we like hard puzzles but when you cant figure out the controls youre wasting our time.
Just crashes every time it starts up, sorry we paid for this, its compatible with our iPad mini2. Thank you to the developer for responding and offering troubleshooting.
Felt like 20 total puzzles and 5hrs of mindless background music/plot with horrible graphics felt like the early 2000. 110% not worth buying this game.
For the price of the game we were expecting a much longer experience. This game was incredibly too short, and the puzzles got repetitive. The story is also a bit convoluted and hard to follow.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.4.8
- Size: 207.95 MB
- iOS: 12.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
- Developer: Rogue Games, Incorporated
Last updated: 19th May 2021 | Genre: Puzzle, Entertainment | Developer: Rogue Games, Incorporated