Lifeless Planet
While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abandoned Russian town. He suspects his mission is a hoax until a mysterious young woman saves him from a strange and deadly phenomenon… Lifeless Planet is a third-person action-adventure that features an old-school sci-fi story and spectacular environments in the spirit of classic action-adventures. After a hard landing on the planet, the astronaut discovers the planet that was reported to be rich with life is instead a barren wasteland. When he goes searching for his crew, he makes a more startling discovery: evidence that humans have already been to this planet years ago! When he comes upon a deserted Soviet-era Russian town, he struggles to make sense of his mission. Did his light-speed travel to the planet send him back in time? Or is this all some strange Cold War hoax?
Game Discussion
Steam User 8
An interesting short story
I couldn't even think that the game is so amazing.
Pros
Great plot.
The game design is good in its own way.
Simple.
Cons
Can be boring.
Not enough interactive elements or lore.
It's good for 2014. This game did cause positive vibes and awakened a sense of curiosity about the plot.
Conclusion: 7/10 - If you like walking simulators filled with a good plot, this game is for you.
Steam User 5
I mainly enjoyed the mysterious atmosphere transported by the graphics and the small story bits here and there. The controls lack of precision, but the game is not hard. Riddles were fine for my taste, nothing blocking my way for too long. In total the game could have been a bit shorter even as the last levels felt like the Xen-levels in Half-Life. Not necessary. Anyway, a pleasant experience overall.
Steam User 4
I liked that it took me through a story. Even tho the graphics were old school it was a good game.
Steam User 2
Overall:
Buy on sale.
I really like the story. It's a level of unexplained thriller that I look for. The desolateness of the world was also very beautiful. I'd enjoy if it was a never-ending walking simulator on the first level with occasional landmarks.
Gameplay:
Most of the game is exploring desolate areas with the occasional landmark, puzzle, or parkour challenge.
Controls/Graphics:
I used an 8bitdo controller for this game and didn't have any problems.
Devices played on:
PC - EndeavourOS (Arch) w/ nvidia GPU
Bugs:
PC:
- Opening cutscene did not play, showed a "SMPTE color bars" type image and no audio. If you waited long enough, you would show up in level one. This was fixed by switching to Proton GE.
- Game started studdering once. Exiting to menu and starting again fixed it. Never happened again.
- Ran with "-force-d3d12" launch option. Saw many people saying it helped on ProtonDB.
Steam User 2
It's fun for a slow moving, casual game. There's no fighting aliens or anything like that.
Steam User 2
Works great on Linux. This is mostly a platformer game, but I liked the story, the music and simple graphics did not spoil the fun for me, nor did the platforming part.
Steam User 2
Pretty good if you like being a character in an interactive story. I actually downloaded Moon and Planet at the same time but played Moon first. I'm glad I did because I would have hated it if I played Planet first. I like first person platformers and Moon has very little in the way of platforming... FAR less than Planet.
If there is a third installment in the Lifeless series, PLEASE get back to your roots and make the game more like Planet. More platforming, harder puzzles, fall damage (toggle maybe?) the occasional necessity of finding oxygen. Give the game more of a risk element where platforming tasks need to be close to perfect to accomplish. Timed challenges, hidden items/easter eggs and MORE ability upgrades (like the jetpack) would be great too. Look at the Supraland series for inspiration on that front.