Astrodelia

Astrodelia is a sci-fi puzzle adventure, you’re playing as Major Tom and your mission is to destroy a space-time anomaly.
The game features various puzzles with a wide range of gameplays, and the adventure feeling is there. But that’s the only good things I can say about it unfortunately.

The puzzles are plagued by abysmal controls. Manipulating the jetpack feels horrible, the fps mode is atrocious (you move extremely slowly using a virtual keyboard and joystick on the screen) and even the point and click gameplay doesn’t feel good.
For example, you’re asked to climb the branches of a tree one by one with your jetpack while the camera doesn’t move and you have no idea of their depth. I know it’s hard to imagine when I put it like that but trust me, combined with the jetpack controls, nobody would ever want to do it.

The only acceptable gameplay is the point and click one, and the majority of their puzzles is ruined because it’s either a tedious maze, obscure, or just uninteresting.
The items in your inventory have no description and no name when you hover over them, you’re told what they are only when you get them and that leads to stupid situations.
One of the puzzles is a room in which you control a giant red orb that emits several lasers. There are also panels around the room that can receive them (and they react to the laser), so anyone would think that you need to rotate the orb and find an angle which activates all the panels at the same time.
But no! You have to know that a box in your inventory needs to be used to make all the lasers converge in one point and direct it towards the panel in the center. How to turn a decent puzzle into a frustrating moment.

There’s a hint system and you can skip any puzzle when you want, and thank god it’s there because I didn’t even bother to go through the slow mazes.
A few puzzles were actually good though; the number sequence, the ciphered code or heating the machine for example. I think the game would’ve been a lot better with only static observation/logic puzzles like that and cutscenes (even though it would sacrifice the adventure feeling a bit).

Astrodelia is like a lot of ambitious small projects, the concept is good but the execution is too poor unfortunately. And I can’t recommend it.

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Developer: Iván Díaz Barriuso
Publisher: Gata Estudio
Platforms: Steam – Windows, Android
Release Date: June 20, 2024