A small studio made a game based on a Stanislaw Lem's novel

This is such a beautiful game that really channels the book. The Soviet retro futurism in the art style really sells it and the bleak mystery behind it makes you think in the best "classic scifi" way.

I loved my time with this.

Kind of off-topic, but I always find it weird to see people's hands and arms in first person games like this. Like, if I think about it, I know my hands are almost always in view, but they almost always fade away and I ignore them.

Whereas whenever I see a first person game, it's almost all I can focus on and it breaks the illusion.

Title should really say which novel. The man wrote quite a few of them.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_Stanis%C5%82a...

And it is honestly incredible. The Invincible is my favourite book of all time, and I remember thinking as a 14 year old whether someone could make a game out of it - and concluding that no, there's not enough "action" to make an interesting video game around the story. Boy, was I wrong - the game not only portrays the setting perfectly, the necessary creative liberties it takes to engage the player are "worth it" and I can only imagine S. Lem would have agreed to them(well, other than one of the endings....but it can't be perfect I guess).

I'd write a lot about what I enjoyed, but nearly all of it would be spoilers. Go, play the game - or better yet, read the book, it has recently received a modern English translation, much better than the previous English-translated-from-German-Translated-from-Polish edition. And there is a fantastic audiobook on audible.

Heads up, the game's EULA[1] has some objectionable terms. They collect your story decisions and system information ("technical requirements of User's hardware and software"). There's also an indemnity clause (though not the worst I've seen). Can't anyone anywhere just let us have nice things?

For those wondering, it should work on Windows 7 with the -dx11 switch.

[1] https://store.steampowered.com/eula/731040_eula_0

Great book. Great game. I treasured the time I spent reading it and playing it. Head's up: the game does not follow the same characters as the book. It's sort of a different story that's taking place at the same time and very nearby.

Today I learned that the "walking simulation" genre exists in gaming.

Not everything everywhere is for us https://youtu.be/UA8DFsJg9Tc

The graphics style gives some Fallout vibes, in a good way. Beautiful!

Poland,the baltucs and chechia are by now the powerhouse in europe when it comes to games and software.

while watching the trailer, I had a deja vue from the bioshock 1 atmosphere which I recommend very much

> Not everything everywhere is for us

Lies! the stars are mankind's birthright!

Death to the xeno!

I call The Invincible a glorious failure in my review: https://mssv.net/2023/12/26/the-invincible/

tl,dr: It looks incredible, like no other game you'll see today, and it grapples with deeply interesting themes – but it's extremely annoying to play and suffers from a serious lack of editing. There's just too much friction to become truly immersed. Still, other games can only wish their failures were this daring.