After visiting PAX Prime 2015, I was pleased to get a code for playing a game that I at least heard about at the convention called Planet of the Eyes from Cococucumber. I was glad that I tried it out, at it is my kind of game.

Planet of the Eyes is a kind of platform/puzzle-solving game. The player is a robot who is roaming this alien world that looks like something out of Samurai Jack. I don’t know how to describe the art style as anything but that, and the blacks mixed with a cooler color palette make that work.

I’m not certain what is the goal of the game, but if I had to guess, it would be going right. Yeah, that is the goal of a lot of games, but in this game there is a lot of audio tapes to pick up. Every time that the robot picks up one, it plays part of a message about a spaceship and a guy who seems nervous about something. Considering that the background of the game looks to be wreckage of some crashed spaceship, it certainly sounds right.

I found the puzzles to be pretty tricky, and some required very precise timing to get to work. It is somewhat easy to die, but at least the game starts you off in a good place. At least the player doesn’t have to do anything to hackneyed to solve a puzzle. In other words, it’s not like an RPG where you have have collected an item from X to use it in place Y.

All in all, it is a pretty intriguing game, and it is available on Steam for a price of $9.99.