Boy have I got a gif to show you

Exo Oneis the type of game that’s better seen than explained. It makes total sense, then, that the first line under “About this project” on its Kickstarter page isn’t a written summary,but a gif— a short snippet of momentum-based gameplay that illustrates just enough to capture initial interest.

Zipping down a blue sand dune before launching off and gliding up into the clouds is inherently cool, and it’s even better with story context.Exo Oneis about “humanity’s first, ill-fated mission outside the solar system,” and the designers hope to provide “an entrancing, flowing, and exhilarating feeling of movement across a range of utterly alien exoplanets.” That ball is an alien vessel, it turns out.

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If I have one concern so far, it’s that the game might be too minimalist for its own good, but dang if that momentum system doesn’t look like a lot of fun to master. Loving those landscapes, too.

The ghost at the end of the hallway

Picking up the smiley face post-it off the broken mirror

John and Molly sitting on the park bench

Close up shot of Marissa Marcel starring in Ambrosio

Kukrushka sitting in a meadow

Lightkeeper pointing his firearm overlapped against the lighthouse background

Overseer looking over the balcony in opening cutscene of Funeralopolis

Edited image of Super Imposter looking through window in No I’m not a Human demo cutscene with thin man and FEMA inside the house

Looking at the ghost of Jackie inside the lighthouse