4.1 Closed source Unlicensed 2008-07-18T18:50:13+00:00 Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space, the sequel to Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, is a casual "coffee-break" space exploration game. In the game players explore a fictional region of the Milky Way galaxy called "The Purple Void". Like its predecessor, Weird Worlds creates a new starmap each time the game is played. Stars, black holes, planets, nebulae, artifacts, alien patrols, gadgets, lifeforms and dozens of events and encounters are randomized intelligently for each game session. 194 362 false true Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space $24.95 19 2005-11-01 3 weird-worlds-return-to-infinite-space 2009-10-25T14:13:29+00:00 248 2008-07-18T18:50:14+00:00 17 MB 362 469 false true http://download.shrapnelgames.com/downloads/ww-osx-demo.zip 2 2009-11-07T19:47:37+00:00 http://s3.amazonaws.com/tigdb-games/weird-worlds-return-to-infinite-space/469/ww-osx-demo.zip 716 2008-07-18T18:50:14+00:00 17.5 MB 362 470 false true http://download.shrapnelgames.com/downloads/weirdworlds_demo.exe 1 2009-11-07T15:20:04+00:00 http://s3.amazonaws.com/tigdb-games/weird-worlds-return-to-infinite-space/470/weirdworlds_demo.exe United States 2008-07-18T18:44:50+00:00 Shrapnel Games is a publisher of independent strategy and war games. It was founded by Tim Brooks in 1999. 195 /usr/home/tigsource/db/public/company/image/195/dev-shrapnel.jpg Shrapnel Games shrapnel-games 2008-07-18T18:44:50+00:00 2 Custom custom United States 2008-07-18T18:19:07+00:00 Digital Eel was formed in 2001 by Rich Carlson, Iikka Keränen and Bill "Phosphorous" Sears. They are headquartered in the Seattle, Washington area. 194 362 194 /usr/home/tigsource/db/public/company/image/194/dev-digitaleel.jpg Digital Eel digital-eel 2008-07-18T18:19:07+00:00 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. 2008-07-23T17:02:39+00:00 0 362 175 66.0.251.57 5 What Star Trek could have been... 2009-01-10T03:39:24+00:00 501 0 1 2008-07-18T18:50:13+00:00 362 831 2008-07-19T15:14:46+00:00 /screenshot/image/831/weirdworlds2.jpg /screenshot/image/831/medium/weirdworlds2.jpg /screenshot/image/831/thumb/weirdworlds2.jpg 2008-07-18T18:50:13+00:00 362 832 2008-07-19T15:14:46+00:00 /screenshot/image/832/weirdworlds4.jpg /screenshot/image/832/medium/weirdworlds4.jpg /screenshot/image/832/thumb/weirdworlds4.jpg 2008-07-18T18:50:13+00:00 362 833 2008-07-19T15:14:46+00:00 /screenshot/image/833/weirdworlds3.jpg /screenshot/image/833/medium/weirdworlds3.jpg /screenshot/image/833/thumb/weirdworlds3.jpg 2008-07-18T18:52:42+00:00 362 834 2008-07-19T15:14:46+00:00 /screenshot/image/834/weirdworlds5.jpg /screenshot/image/834/medium/weirdworlds5.jpg /screenshot/image/834/thumb/weirdworlds5.jpg 362 17 17 Casual casual 362 1 Windows 1 windows