Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space

5 What Star Trek could have been...
I was given a copy of Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space as a gift a while ago. I almost hopped out of my seat with glee; I had played the first game in the series, Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, at the GDC in San Jose some years ago. Back then I was blown away at what they had achieved. It was Master of Orion for people with ADD – absolutely brilliant! And when I booted up Weird Worlds, I was absolutely floored. Everything I had seen in SAiIS was there, only better, which is something like saying it was like a store that sells gold bullion, flamethrowers, and puppy dogs, only the owner is from Pt’kipp Island where the national currency is noodles, so you have to pay for everything in an armload of ramen packets.

Going off topic there, but coming right back – Weird Worlds is what Star Trek could have been. To wit, a game where you’re dropped into a vast, randomly generated galaxy and told to go out and find loot, make peace with alien cultures (or just blow them all to hell and back), and come back home in time to churn a profit. The sheer variety of things you can find in the game is amazing, ranging from time capsules filled with worthless crap to giant eggs (and yes, they are good for something… I won’t spoil what it is) to mystical charms that can summon flaming spirits to annihilate an entire world. The graphics are clean, stylish, and functional, the sounds are pleasantly atmospheric, and the controls are amazingly simple, even in the real-time strategic space battles – something that I normally have a horrible time working with. And as if that wasn’t incentive enough, Weird Worlds has a very active modding community, which is encouraged by the publishers to the point that the start screen has an option to activate a mod built right into it. It’s about $25, money well spent in my opinion. Pick it up, start exploring, and watch out… those “abandoned starships” are almost never what they seem.

5 Downright well done!
This game is definitely one amazing indie-game! It’s gameplay is pretty simple; discover alien life forms, gather treasures, and unite with aliens, as allies. Simple? Well, not as simple as it sounds. As much as the price is a bit high, this game is so worth getting, because it’s very well done! Honestly, the battle system is alright, but nothing exactly addictive. But looking for alien life and gathering cool resources makes this game a video game that is SO worth buying! This is truly one of the best indie games I have ever played.