Osmos for Mac Updated
2019-12-09Just a technical update. Took a while to dig up the old NASA mission plans to get it out though! ;-)
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Hemisphere Games / Aug 18, 2009 / Casual, Indie
Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait.
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| CPU | Not set | 1 GHz Can't tell |
| GPU | Not set | 3D graphics card with OpenGL support. Minimum resolution 800x600 Can't tell |
| RAM | Not set | 512 MB RAM Can't tell |
Just a technical update. Took a while to dig up the old NASA mission plans to get it out though! ;-)
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86% positive, 975 reviews
TL:DR - Fun early, drags and is unfun mid / late levels. The early levels are fun osmosis centered, semi-puzzle related levels. Once the game shifts to the orbital mechanics the enjoyment takes a nose dive, and you easily spend hours just waiting for two sphere's orbits to line up enough to make an adjustment. There is a reason we had teams of people doing these calculations in the early days, and now let...
10 found this helpful, 2026-01-04
OSMOS everything i had hoped for....i had been wanting/looking for a microverse game of this sort for years...it seemed like such an obvious idea...and yet i kept running into games like genome guardian, survivor cells and microcosmum...which are cool but not quite the itch i was hoping to scratch...too shooty-shoot-shot-pew-pew for any kind of realistic take on the microverse...microcosmum is close...but still too...
8 found this helpful, 2026-01-18
If you remember the microbe soup in the beginning of the old game Spore; this is it. If you liked that first part of the game the best; this will be a new love for you.
5 found this helpful, 2026-01-29
I've been playing this game every couple of years for ... decades, it seems? Short but lots of fun.
3 found this helpful, 2025-10-14