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Helium

You are a liaison on Vega 237 spacecraft. All crew members died and you are all by yourself in the midst of an unknown planet. Your goal is to find out what happened to the crew and establish the signal's…

10 10 March 2017

Helium is an adventure developed by rocketship, released 10 March 2017 on PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Helium is

Helium is an adventure game developed by rocketship and released in 2017. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity 4.

The premise, in the publisher's words

You are a liaison on Vega 237 spacecraft. All crew members died and you are all by yourself in the midst of an unknown planet. Your goal is to find out what happened to the crew and establish the signal's nature.
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Helium holds a critic score of 10 out of 100. That places it above 1% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 61 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Helium launched on 10 March 2017, within three weeks of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda and NieR: Automata. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Horizon Zero Dawn, Mass Effect: Andromeda, NieR: Automata.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

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Quick answers

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When did Helium come out?
Helium was released on 10 March 2017 for PC (Microsoft Windows).

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