G Prime
A gravity gripping, Steampunk-styled, moody-beautiful, slingshot simulating puzzle pleaser. If you like Gravity Sling, Blast Off or Gears of Gravity, you’ll love this game. Explore the vast uncharted mysteries…
G Prime is an indie developed by Soma Games, released 19 August 2015 on Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What G Prime is
G Prime is an indie game developed by Soma Games and released in 2015. It was published by Code-Monkeys. It is available on Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
A gravity gripping, Steampunk-styled, moody-beautiful, slingshot simulating puzzle pleaser. If you like Gravity Sling, Blast Off or Gears of Gravity, you’ll love this game. Explore the vast uncharted mysteries of “The Rain”, an incoming solar-system spanning cloud of rock, ice, metal, and other asteroids containing precious materials. This creates a boundless opportunity for wealth, and this is where you come in. In your role as sounding officer onboard Ptolemy Station, you are tasked with launching sub-etheric reconnaissance rockets into increasingly challenging gravity fields of iceteroids, theophosphorus, and quicksand clouds within The Rain in order to chart its vast riches.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
G Prime holds a critic score of 30 out of 100. That places it above 2% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 39 points below the year average.
What it launched against
G Prime launched on 19 August 2015, within three weeks of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Until Dawn, Mad Max and Dishonored Definitive Edition. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain, Until Dawn, Mad Max, Dishonored Definitive Edition.
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