Gareth writes: "In the film The Martian, it was clear from the beginning that Matt Damon, suddenly stranded on Mars, wasn't about to be having an easy time of it. It wasn't a nice little vacation away from the family, but clearly an exercise in trying to stay alive for every minute of the day. Symmetry is a game that plays on the same principle of that film - being stranded on a planet, having to survive and eventually trying to escape. Except there is more than one astronaut and if one of them dies you have some big questions. Do you give your colleague a decent burial, or eat them for valuable calories? The choice is yours."
SYMMETRY is a survival management game set in a retro-futuristic, sci-fi universe already available on Steam (PC and MAC), PlayStation 4 and Xbox One is going to release on Nintendo Switch on March 19th.
Ryan Crocker from GameGrin writes, "At their core, survival games are all about having to make a series of grim, ethically dubious decisions. It's calculated pragmatism taken to the extreme. Should I throw Mabel the arthritic pensioner down a well because she's too frail for manual labour and eats all the baked beans? Or should I indulge her interminable anecdotes and let her knit me a cardigan out of toilet paper in the hope she'll boost morale by dispensing sage advice? (Verdict: She's a worthless drain on resources and farts all day long. RIP Mabel.) Sleepless Clinic's Symmetry is awash in these sorts of conundrums, and despite moments of spirit-crushing hopelessness, white-knuckle frustration and a few pacing issues, it all comes together rather nicely. And when I say nicely, I mean under a suffocating pall of suicidal despair."
XBA says: A beautiful bland world.
