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PS4 / PC / iOS / Mac / XONE / Switch - 9/13/2022

Little Orpheus

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.

PlatformPuzzleAdventure
Developer
The Chinese Room
Publisher
Sumo Digital

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69

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Critic avg

69

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Total coverage

13

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50–80

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Mixed response

Score range is 21–30 points

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The critic average is 69 across 13 scored reviews, with a 30-point spread. That suggests a mixed critic response rather than a single clear read.

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Kim Snaith

GameSpew

Little Orpheus Review – GameSpew

Published 2/28/2022

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Scoring alignment

Score

60

-9 vs critic avg

CJ Andriessen

Destructoid

Little Orpheus Review – Destructoid

Published 2/28/2022

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Score

70

+1 vs critic avg

Tony C

Thumb Culture

Little Orpheus Review

Published 2/28/2022

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Score

80

+11 vs critic avg

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