Affordable Space Adventures

Affordable Space Adventures
Developer(s)	KnapNok Games Nicklas Nygren
Publisher(s)	KnapNok Games
Engine	Unity
Platform(s)	Wii U
Release date(s)	eShop ^NA April 9, 2015 ^PAL April 9, 2015 ^JP November 18, 2015
Genre(s)	Puzzle, adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player, Multi-player

Affordable Space Adventures is a puzzle adventure game developed and published by KnapNok Games in collaboration with Nifflas' Games. The game was released for the Wii U via the Nintendo eShop download service. The game's main gameplay feature is its unique use of the Wii U Gamepad to control a spaceship by using the controls shown on the touch-screen.

Gameplay

Affordable Space Adventures is a 2D adventure game in which the player takes control of a spaceship named Small Craft, provided by the in-game fictional company of Uexplore. The game is split into several levels in which players have to control the Small Craft from the entrance of the level until the exit. To do so, players must use a variety of systems via the touch-screen on the Wii U Gamepad, such as switching from a fuel engine to an electrical engine, changing the thrust level and changing the landing gears, among others. In each level, players will encounter a series of obstacles, some of them environmental, some other being enemies that players have to find a way to sneak around from by tweaking the ship's systems to go through undetected. Players can always look at the Small Craft's output meters on the Wii U Gamepad's screen to see how much heat, electricity and sound they are producing, as well as which of the ship's systems are causing it, in order to reduce them and go past the enemies. Some enemies will also react to the ship's presence and will have to be scared away by pointing the ship's flashlight at them.

Reception

Reception
Aggregate score Aggregator Score Metacritic 81/100[1] Review scores Publication Score Destructoid 9/10[2] Game Informer 8/10[3] GameSpot 8/10[4]

References

1. "Affordable Space Adventures Reviews". Metacritic. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
2. Hancock, Patrick (2015-04-04). ""Affordable Space Adventures" Review". Destructoid. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
3. Hilliard, Kyle (2015-04-08). "Interstellar Micromanagement - Affordable Space Adventures". GI. Retrieved 2015-08-19.
4. Venter, Jason (2015-04-21). ""Affordable Space Adventures" Review". GSpot. Retrieved 2015-08-19.