Cubic Odyssey

Cubic Odyssey looked like if a combination of No Man's Sky and Minecraft had a baby, and as someone who enjoys both of those titles? Well, I had to try it out. Developed by Atypical Games and published by Gaijin Network Ltd, this has been Atypical Games' newest release since Infinite Tanks in 2017. However, it's also Atypical Games' first one that hasn't been published in-house. So, while I've never played an Atypical Games title before, I thought that Cubic Odyssey looked interesting enough to try out.

- By Bex Prouse

Upon starting Cubic Odyssey, you're given the option to choose between two modes, Survival and Creative, with the Survival mode offering you a chance to follow the main questline. However, Creative doesn't have this, and you can also opt out of the main questline in Survival to focus on other things. You can create and customise your character, and can choose between four different classes: Miner, Crafter, Pilot, and Knight.

Now, the overall goal of Cubic Odyssey is to deal with the Red Darkness, and the Queen has sent all of her knights away to go and find a way to defeat this menace. I'm not particularly sure of the danger of the Red Darkness; however, it's all but certain that it managed to destroy the capital. So, it's up to you (and your friends, if you have any who are also playing it) to go out and destroy it.

Your plane crashes on a planet that has some enemies in the form of pirates and one dinosaur, and they're easy to beat... well, the pirates are; the dinosaur ends up looping around and then running away from you after being shot at a few times. It was a vaguely strange experience, however, as it was still early on in the game, I didn't think much of it. It's a lot like any other game in the crafting genre; you're looking for resources, and mining is... well, it's a bit of a pain. You have an Extractor, which you shoot at the resources and it will add them to the inventory.