Lifeless Planet

Lifeless Planet is a world well worth exploring.

The aspects of Lifeless Planet that succeed elevate it past the technical shortcomings, but only so far. You will find a compelling world and a story worth experiencing, but you do so at the expense of well-polished animation and gameplay that hinders the overall experience.

Lifeless Planet is bold and memorable and oddly sweet in the earnestness of its message and its preoccupations. It's a truly efficient payload. Fire it up and be transported.

Lifeless Planet is a really fun experience, but not a very good game. I’d still recommend it based on the entertainment I got from exploring the mysteries of the game’s world, but I wish I didn’t have to deal with questionable puzzles and mechanics to do so.

In this platform/puzzle game, you discover a mysterious planet. Lifeless Planet has a great theme but the gameplay is not good at all.

The game engulfs you in its setting but brings it down with dumb platforming. A pity - this could've been so much better. [Issue#244]

If you're in the mood for a soft, sombre trip to another world, consider this for your next. [Sept 2014, p.116]

Lifeless Planet seems to have a ton of potential beneath its lackluster surface, always seeming like a better game is lurking in there, just beyond your grasp.

Once the novelty of its promising premise and fun environmental puzzles have worn off, Lifeless Planet’s repetitive scenery and gameplay drag the experience back down to earth.

The previews looked fantastic, but the final release of Lifeless Planet fails to build that potential into a worthy game.

There's a great idea in here somewhere, but it's hard to find it when it's buried under so much space dust. [Oct 2014, p.80]

Lifeless Planet looks like quite a nice sci-fi novel, which squeezed very awkwardly in a game backbone and then as chewing gum was pulled to the maximum possible length.

We should have known: the planet we need to explore in this short and dull adventure, is unequivocally lifeless.

Despite having an interesting premise, with a space mission gone wrong on a desolated planet, the experience offered by Lifeless Planet ends up being a bit lacklustre. The graphics is on the weak side and do not do the varied environments justice, while the puzzle- and platforming sections are forgettable at best. A few peak moments could make the game pass among sci-fi enthusiasts, but I would have preferred a more compressed story.

The basic idea behind the game is interesting, but after a while it becomes a monotonous, bland walkabout that is heavily plagued with graphical and gameplay bugs.

It starts strong but then the fascination fades away fast. This Wannabe-Journey for most of the time is nothing more than a boring platformer.

Lifeless Planet fails to develop its strong points. It’s a good try that has totally wasted its potential.

Lifeless Planet is, unfortunately, a little too lifeless. It starts off well, but the story is boring, the locations are bland and the platforming just frustrates.

The main idea of Lifeless Planet is supported only by its trivial gameplay with no thought. If there is something that can be said about Lifeless Planet for a certainty, it is the fact that it is a game about running and jumping, yet unfortunately, in the most ordinary and tiresome fashion. You may definitely forgo a trip to this planet.

Lifeless Planet is aptly named: The game lacks vitality and the pacing is off. Although only four hours long, the campaign is oftentimes a slog and the jumping lacks the precision the game’s focus on platforming theoretically necessitates. Disappointing.