ASA: A Space Adventure is a first-person slideshow adventure game made in tribute to Riven and 2001: A Space Odyssey. You play in 2057 as an astronaut who finds a strange black cube, which will teleport him on an unknown spaceship called the Ark. You will soon discover that you're not the first astronaut from planet Terra to come here : Philip Forte lived the very same experience in 2011 and, fortunately, he left a diary explaining his story. With this help, you will visit the Ark and try to access the various environments and planets, with one single thing in mind : going back home ! ASA was created by a single person for the love of puzzle games of an era, and if you're fond of the Myst or Rhem series, it's more likely that you will enjoy this journey ! <<With a captivating backstory and engaging, challenging puzzles, ASA: A Space Adventure is a welcome addition to the pantheon of Myst-style puzzle-adventure games!>> (AdventureGamers.com)
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I got this game as part of the Indie Royale Debute 4 Bundle, it was my main motivation for picking the bundle up as I am a huge fan of Myst and any new myst-like is fine by me.
I really enjoyed this game, but it does have some problems. Many of the puzzles can be solved with logic but there still are some cheapouts with pixelhunting. The copper wire and the panel beside the cupboard comes to mind. The difference in what was spoken and written in the audio logs where kinda grating, it's kinda clear that the audio was recorded after the text was written and is structured way better then the text, that still contained typos and wierd structuring. As a systems administrator the PC part was kinda strange as well, mainly because it breaks a lot of rules for how CLI's are written, also, who would have a program which could retrieve a password from another user on another PC? And how is it that to clear the memory clear is used and not just delete to free some up?
Still, these are nitpicks and I did enjoy the game. I'm giving it a 7/10 which to me means "A good game I would recommend to people longing for a new myst game"