Untravelled Planet(yesm it is spelled that way) is a Nintendo 64 game in 2025 and unfortunately, not a very good one. It kind of reminds me of Jet Force Gemini without the Rare polish that the game had. You play one of two astronauts who fly to a remote planet, and get shot down by space pirates. You must repair your ship and escape. To do that, you wander around a bare planet, collecting things and shooting pirates, and even delve into the occasional dungeon(more on that in a bit). You start out slow and weak, and over time build upgrades to your suit and weapons. That is all told to you by a penguin thing:
Don’t worry, if you forget, Untravelled Planet will tell you what you are doing again in an un-skippable text cut scene:
Your main goal in Untravelled Planet is to power on ancient technology given to you by the penguin thing, and follow pipes of green energy to stuff to do, like a dungeon, where I got stuck in a room and unable to continue. I couldn’t tell if its an oversight or a bug, but I quit at that point because I got a taste for what the game was, mediocre. It’s not bad, per se. You just walk like you’re in tar. You shoot with a horrible gun with limited ammo and get killed by the pirates easily.
Untravelled Planet is only six dollars, so I get the lack of budget. But a game with this size and scope just can’t be done on a small budget, otherwise you end up with this pile of mediocrity. There’s nothing here to recommend, so it gets a Not Recommended with a five back-end score. Go play Jet Force Gemini instead.
Overall: Untravelled Planet had big ambitions, but no budget left the game stuck in mediocrity, and it will never leave it.
Verdict: Not Recommended
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P.S. I haven’t had good luck with Steam Games so far…
Game received for free from the publisher
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