Astronaut: The Best
Astronaut: The Best is an occult management sim where people aren't just numbers: they're incompetent screwups. Your duty is to turn them into national heroes, or the government will have you killed…
Astronaut: The Best is an adventure developed by Universal Happymaker, released 15 August 2023 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Astronaut: The Best is
Astronaut: The Best is an adventure game developed by Universal Happymaker and released in 2023. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
To the Moon is a 2011 adventure game developed and published by Freebird Games. It was originally released for Windows and was later ported to Linux, OS X, Android, iOS, and the Nintendo Switch. The story follows two doctors who offer to fulfill a dying man's last wish using artificial memories. The game features relatively few gameplay mechanics, with the player controlling the two doctors, exploring the narrative, and solving puzzles as they try to reconstruct the dying man's memories in order to fulfill his wish.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are comedy and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 33 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Astronaut: The Best holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored 9 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for SSE2 instruction set support, 1024 MB RAM and Yes. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 3GB.
What it launched against
Astronaut: The Best launched on 15 August 2023, within three weeks of Baldur's Gate III, Baldur's Gate III, Overwatch and Sea of Stars. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Baldur's Gate III, Baldur's Gate III, Overwatch, Sea of Stars.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Astronaut: The Best yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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