Physicus: Save the World with Science! (1999) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Physicus: Save the World with Science!

A point-and-click adventure and digital learning game for physics. The player moves through several levels and has to investigate different locations, collect objects and use them in other places and solve…

31 December 1999

What Physicus: Save the World with Science! is

Physicus: Save the World with Science! is an adventure game developed by Ruske & Pühretmaier Design und Multimedia GmbH and released in 1999. It was published by BrainGame Publishing GmbH. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Macromedia.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Returning from a long journey from outer space, the player receives a call for help from a professor: a meteorite has crashed into the small home planet and brought the rotation to a standstill, making one hemisphere unbearably hot and the other unbearably cold - only an impulse machine can get the planet going again. The player's task is to use the professor's notes to complete the machine and save the planet.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

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

What it launched against

Physicus: Save the World with Science! launched on 31 December 1999, within three weeks of Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead and Little Fighter 2.

Released around the same time: Shenmue, Planescape: Torment, The Typing of the Dead, Little Fighter 2.

Official trailer