Planet's Edge: The Point of no Return

created and published by New World Computing in 1992-05, running on MS-DOS
type: role-play
genre: Science Fiction
perspective: bird's-eye
player options: single player
languages: eng
3.9/5

Official description

Adventure into a living universe! Help solve the mystery of the vanished planet Earth...

You are a member of the United Nations First Approach (U.N.F.A.) team faced with the task of unraveling the bizarre disappearence of planet Earth. From the U.N.F.A. base on the Moon, you and your comrades will follow path of clues which you hope will lead to the restoration of your home world.

- Explore dozens of solar systems, each with planets featuring their own unique inhabitants and environments with which you must interact!
- Custom create your own spacecraft to transport and protect you on your wild journeys.
- Use your wit and your weapons against a galaxy of technologically advanced marauders.
- Both strategy-based and real-time combat options are available to suit individual styles of play.
- Story puzzles often have more than one solution, encouraging experimentation and replay.
- Delight in laser-hot graphics, animations and sound! A game of epic scale!

Box blurb - # 2003-05-29 18:22:58 - official description

Comment

Supposedly this has a bug that prevents you from orbiting the first planet of any system, keyboard shortcut O should fix this each time, though.

Sanguine # 2009-05-02 11:17:58

Authors / Staff

design

Eric Hyman (lead designer)

External reviews (4) - average: 84.5% - median: 82.5%

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Génération 4 (001-082)fr441992-0585/10085%
Génération 4 (001-082)fr501992-1278/10078%
Joystickfr271992-0595/10095%
Tilt 39-113fr1031992-0616/2080%

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