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PS3Blog.netLittle Orpheus Review
Published 8/11/2023
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PS4 / PC / iOS / Mac / XONE / Switch - 9/13/2022
An impossible adventure awaits in Little Orpheus, the brand-new adventure from award-winning studio The Chinese Room, a Sumo Digital Studio, available from today exclusively on Apple Arcade. From the BAFTA-winning team behind Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture and Dear Esther, Little Orpheus is a side-scrolling adventure game about one comrade’s journey to the centre of the Earth. The year is 1962. NASA are trying to put a man on the moon but in a remote corner of Siberia, a Soviet cosmonaut is heading in the other direction. Ivan Ivanovich is dropped into an extinct volcano in his exploration capsule, Little Orpheus, to explore the centre of the earth. Ivan vanishes, emerging three years later claiming to have saved the world. In a top-secret bunker, he is debriefed by the fearsome General Yurkovoi. Little Orpheus casts players as Ivan as he recounts an adventure beyond belief: a tale of lost civilizations, undersea kingdoms, and prehistoric jungles deep below the Earth’s crust. Brought to you in glorious technicolour with visuals inspired by a bygone era of adventure, Little Orpheus is a serialised adventure inspired by classic movies like Flash Gordon, Sinbad and The Land That Time Forgot.
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Little Orpheus Review
Published 8/11/2023
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Read originalLittle Orpheus review for Nintendo Switch, PC, PlayStation, Xbox
Published 10/4/2022
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67
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Read originalReview - Little Orpheus (Switch)
Published 9/29/2022
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Read originalLittle Orpheus Review (PC)
Published 9/23/2022
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70
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Read originalNindie Spotlight Little Orpheus Review
Published 9/14/2022
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75
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Read originalReview | Little Orpheus
Published 9/12/2022
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Read originalLittle Orpheus Review - Niche GamerLittle Orpheus Review - Niche Gamer
Published 9/12/2022
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Read originalReview: Little Orpheus (Nintendo Switch) - Pure Nintendo
Published 9/12/2022
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Read originalReview: Little Orpheus - A Whimsical Tale That Left Us Wanting
Published 9/12/2022
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Read originalLittle Orpheus Review
Published 3/1/2022
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