Planet Alpha

 Xbox One
User Score
7.2

Mixed or average reviews- based on 13 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 13
  3. Negative: 2 out of 13

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  1. Genjira
    Sep 20, 2018
    6
    The first three quarters of Planet Alpha is breathtakingly beautiful. Visually, it's everything No Man's Sky wishes it was. The gameplay works fine but there's not much of a challenge here. I wouldn't call the tasks puzzles so much as scenes - you just get through them. Towards the end of the game, it becomes graphically repetitious, then bland, then basic and the final task is fairlyThe first three quarters of Planet Alpha is breathtakingly beautiful. Visually, it's everything No Man's Sky wishes it was. The gameplay works fine but there's not much of a challenge here. I wouldn't call the tasks puzzles so much as scenes - you just get through them. Towards the end of the game, it becomes graphically repetitious, then bland, then basic and the final task is fairly mundane but it does lead into a little twist and then the game ends. It's not very long and it's not very challenging either from a puzzle or a platform perspective but, wow, does it look good.… Expand

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#84 Most Discussed Xbox One Game of 2018

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Metascore
72

Mixed or average reviews - based on 14 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 14
  3. Negative: 1 out of 14
  1. XBLA Fans
    Oct 30, 2018
    80
    Gorgeous design quality, accurate controls and interesting use of shifting the time of day make Planet Alpha stand out amongst recent platform based games. It has quick load times, forgiving checkpoints and can actually be quite challenging in a lot of areas. It’s fairly short, but I believe the time spent is very enjoyable.
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  2. Official Xbox Magazine UK
    Oct 21, 2018
    60
    A truly beautiful setting undone by balance issues. Fingers crossed for future fixes. [Nov 2018, p.91]
  3. ZTGD
    Oct 5, 2018
    55
    What is a competent platformer with satisfactory puzzles is marred by these terrible moments of me dying repeatedly to unfair AI. The snarky part of me wants to place a picture over the complimentary parts of this review just like this game puts stuff in the foreground so I can’t see what I’m doing just to prove how annoying that is. This game isn’t bad, it’s annoying. With moments of really solid gameplay peeking through maybe pick this one up on sale but otherwise there are better games doing similar things out there. Pick up Unravel 2 instead.
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