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Pollen

Pollen is a first-person exploration game optimized for the upcoming Oculus Rift virtual reality headset. Pollen is a first-person exploration game set on Titan, the sixth and largest moon of Saturn and the…

61 19 April 2016

Pollen is an adventure developed by Mindfield Games, released 19 April 2016 on PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 2.7 hrs to finish.

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What Pollen is

Pollen is an adventure game developed by Mindfield Games and released in 2016. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

After the failed assassination of President Kennedy, NASA combined forces with the Soviet space program. A permanent moonbase was established in the 70s and space technology kept booming throughout the decade as inventions such as anti-gravity allowed objects to be lifted cheaply into orbit. The famous moonbase became a tourist attraction in the 90s as commercial space flights continued to expand the frontier towards the outer solar system Rama Industries is one of the many organizations expanding the human frontier. Though encountering a disaster from time to time they push forward and search for new possibilities in space. One of the most interesting being the latest findings on the…
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How it plays

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

How it was received

Pollen holds a critic score of 61 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2016 averaged 68, so it scored 7 points below the year average.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 2.7 hrs.

What it launched against

Pollen launched on 19 April 2016, within three weeks of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Ratchet & Clank and Don't Starve Together. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Uncharted 4: A Thief's End, Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition, Ratchet & Clank, Don't Starve Together.

Official trailer

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Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.

Screenshots

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Characters

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Quick answers

Pollen — frequently asked questions

When did Pollen come out?
Pollen was released on 19 April 2016 for PC (Microsoft Windows).
How long does it take to beat Pollen?
The main story of Pollen takes around 2.7 hrs.

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