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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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Very Positive (631) - 86% of the 631 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

Aug 18, 2009

Developer:

Hemisphere Games

Publisher:

Hemisphere Games

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By 1st5 January 16, 2016

“You. Absorb things. Anything smaller, you consume. Anything larger, consumes you. It's...absorbing.”

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Features

Steam Achievements

Languages:

	Interface	Full Audio	Subtitles
English	✔
French	✔
German	✔
Spanish - Spain	✔
Italian	✔

Age rating for: ESRB

Includes 11 Steam Achievements

Ambient Master

Fittest

Master of the Deep

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Title: Osmos
Genre: Casual, Indie

Developer: Hemisphere Games

Publisher: Hemisphere Games

Release Date: Aug 18, 2009

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Awards

Winner of the IGF Vision award and finalist for 3 other IGF awards:
Seumas McNally Grand Prize
Excellence in Design
Technical Excellence
Also, Apple Design Award, IndieCade Best in Show, and many more...

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Reviews

a beautiful, absorbing experience… brilliant to look at… the best videogame music I've heard… will make you forget your cares and immerse you in the game… you'll find yourself returning for the experience. 8.5! Editor’s Choice Award. - IGN

wonderful gameplay… beautifully polished and tantalizingly atmospheric… Osmos mixes puzzle, action and strategy remarkably and all the while does it with great finesse and style. - indiegames

beyond doubt, a work of genius... a relaxing, meditative experience about going with the flow... It all adds up to something otherworldly and just . . . incredible. - GameAndPlayer

an almost transcendental video game experience… a stellar example of electronic music's potential impact on indie video game production. - londonfuse

About This Game

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.

Independent Games Festival finalist in three categories: Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Excellence in Design and Technical Excellence
Progress from serenely ambient levels into varied and more challenging worlds. (47 levels, plus bonus content)
Confront attractors, repulsors and intelligent motes with similar abilities and goals as you
Selected as one of the 2009 PAX 10
Procedural content: play random versions of any level
Sublime electronic soundtrack by Loscil, Gas/High Skies, Julien Neto, Biosphere, and more
Dynamic time-warping: slow down the flow of time to outmaneuver agile opponents; speed it up to raise the challenge

System Requirements

Windows

macOS

SteamOS + Linux

OS *: Windows XP or Vista
Processor: 1 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 3D graphics card with OpenGL support. Minimum resolution 800x600
DirectX®: N/A (OpenGL)
Hard Drive: 33 Mb
Sound: definitely :)

* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.

OS: OS X version 10.7 (Lion) or later

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, fully updated
Processor: 1 GHz or faster
Memory: 512 Mb or more
Graphics: Hardware accelerated OpenGL support. Minimum resolution 800x600
Hard Drive: 40 Mb free space

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