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Outernauts

Outernauts was an Adobe Flash social role-playing video game for Facebook. Developed by Insomniac Games, it is the developer's first social video game, as well as their first game for a non-Sony platform. The…

60 31 December 2012

Outernauts is a strategy developed by Insomniac Games, released 31 December 2012 on Android, iOS and Web browser.

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What Outernauts is

Outernauts is a strategy game developed by Insomniac Games and released in 2012. It was published by Electronic Arts. It is available on Android, iOS and Web browser.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Outernauts was an Adobe Flash social role-playing video game for Facebook. Developed by Insomniac Games, it is the developer's first social video game, as well as their first game for a non-Sony platform. The game is published by Electronic Arts and was released as an open beta in July 2012. It was announced by Insomniac Games that the game would no longer be available on Facebook from January 31, 2014 and would be ported to iOS. The game was shut down on February 1, 2016.
Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

Its themes are science fiction.

How it was received

Outernauts holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 14% of the 3,249 rated strategy games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2012 averaged 70, so it scored 10 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Outernauts launched on 31 December 2012, within three weeks of DmC: Devil May Cry, Game Dev Tycoon, ArcheAge and Kentucky Route Zero. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: DmC: Devil May Cry, Game Dev Tycoon, ArcheAge, Kentucky Route Zero.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Quick answers

Outernauts — frequently asked questions

When did Outernauts come out?
Outernauts was released on 31 December 2012 for Android, iOS and Web browser.

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