Phoning Home
You play ION, a young exploration unit on a mission to secure natural resources. When you crash-land on an alien planet your ship is almost completely destroyed. Not only do you have to survive in a strange…
Phoning Home is an adventure developed by ION LANDS, released 7 February 2017 on PC (Microsoft Windows). It is free to play.
What Phoning Home is
Phoning Home is an adventure game developed by ION LANDS and released in 2017. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
You play ION, a young exploration unit on a mission to secure natural resources. When you crash-land on an alien planet your ship is almost completely destroyed. Not only do you have to survive in a strange new world full of dangers, but to have even a hope of escape you must find a way to contact your home planet for help. With only your ship’s A.I. for company, you set out to explore your new home. On your journey you encounter ANI, a small, stranded service unit who identifies as female. ANI is the first to admit she’s a bit mad, but she is also a valuable resource, and it soon becomes clear that there will be no escape without her. And so, the two of you begin a journey that neither of…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, open world, science fiction and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 52 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Phoning Home holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 49% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core i5 / AMD, 2.5 GHz, 8 GB RAM and Dedicated GPU, NVIDIA or AMD, 1.5 GB video memory. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 10GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Phoning Home launched on 7 February 2017, within three weeks of Horizon Zero Dawn, NieR: Automata, Hollow Knight and Resident Evil 7: Biohazard. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Horizon Zero Dawn, NieR: Automata, Hollow Knight, Resident Evil 7: Biohazard.
Official trailer
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