Hollywood is HEALING! Ryan Gosling’s recent Sci-Fi movie titled “Project Hail Mary” has left every space enthusiast drooling over the movie’s visuals, storyline, and ROCKY and Grace saving stars (Statement).
What makes this movie special, like Interstellar and Gravity, is that the movie producers used CGI as minimally as they could and focused more on practical effects, real lighting, and actual astrophotography images to capture the essence of the vast & unknown universe!
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If you are still daydreaming about dancing with a friendly alien, then you are in the right spot. In today’s blog, we’ll be discussing around 5 games that will let you experience “What it feels like to Spacewalk.” So, let’s dive deep into the vast universe by putting a “Not” in “Astronaut.”
5 Games that You Should Definitely Play if You Like Project Hail Mary
- Kerbal Space Program
Love stargazing? Then my mate, this here is a perfect match for you. Released in 2015, Kerbal Space Program is a widely popular Indie game that has achieved mainstream popularity. Developed by Mexican Studio Squad, this exploration sandbox lets you explore the Kerbol Solar System with alien humanoids, also known as Kerbals. It’s not just about space exploration and expansion.
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This game provides a plethora of real dynamic parts, a fully functional spacecraft that you’ll need to assemble before moving out with our beloved kerbals. The real fun begins now, after launching straight into the Kerbol Solar System, keep yourself alive, and build space stations to expand your expedition!
- Space Engineers
Another Indie game in the house, baby! Space Engineers is a renowned game developed by Keen Software House. A sandbox game developed to showcase creativity and girth to expand beyond land & water. Besides building a spacecraft and exploring the Solar System, this game has a lot to offer. If you are thinking that building space stations on each planet is the end goal of this game, you are misguided, my friend, as here you are in charge of making a bucket list. Utilize resources from different planetary environments and use your engineering skills to witness what’s beyond our imagination. Instead of an alien friend like Rocky, you can explore the moon, asteroids, and other phenomena of space with your friends.
- No Man’s Sky
It’s an exploration day for ya’ll! One of the best games and personal recommendations of many gamers from around the globe, No Man’s Sky is a 4th-wall break of Space exploration. Besides excavation and survival, this game also tests your combat and trading skills. In here, players don the role of humanoid aliens, planetary explorers who are also known as travellers or anomalies.
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The rules are simple: all you have to do is excavate the never-ending universe, which is filled with bizarre planets, flora, fauna, and other specimens of aliens. With more than 30 hours of story campaign, enter dogfights, race exocrafts, and explore infinite Galaxies with your friends! What else does this game offer? Almost everything that astronauts do in their spacecraft. From refueling to spacewalk in the deadly horizon, follow the Atlas to reach the centre of the Galaxy.
- Starfield
Want to explore stars like Tau Ceti or collect otherworldly artifacts like Dr. Grace did during his expedition? If so, then Bethesda’s Starfield is your go-to. An action-adventure game where players don the role of space explorers and travel 50 light-years around the Settled System to acquire mysterious artifacts.
Featuring the planetary environments from the Milky Way Galaxy, here players can also witness a set of fictional planets that will definitely make their jaw drop. Furthermore, Bethesda’s exclusive lets you explore more than 1,000 planets in the Milky Way Galaxy. Set in 2330 AD, join the “Constellation” and discover dark secrets of alien artifacts that the secretive group has been covering up from the last human remains!
- Outer Wilds
Considered a pinnacle in the space exploration genre, Outer Wilds should be on your wishlist if you are a space enthusiast like Dr. Grace or Cooper from Interstellar. Known as one of the best indie games to mankind, this action-adventure game transcends your existence beyond oblivion. Developed by Mobius Digital, here players are stuck in a 22-minute planetary system time loop that resets after the Sun goes into Ultra Instinct mode (Supernova) and destroys the entire solar system. The hassle is real, as in this pseudo-realistic Solar System, players need to investigate remains and mysteries behind alien existence, which is the root cause of the time loop. Besides diverse exploration and survival in a pitch-dark universe, this game tests your puzzle-solving abilities to an extent!
Wrapping Up
The above-mentioned are some of the best space exploration games that will surely quench your thirst to meet aliens like Rocky! So, gear up in your exosuit and live a low-cortisol life like Dr. Grace did in Erid after a heroic performance while saving stars!
