It’s a tactile experience that really puts players in the cockpit without switching to a first-person perspective. Players have to keep track of meters like heat and electricity, fiddling with their two engines to make sure the ship runs smoothly at all times. Others are more complex, putting a unique systems management experience in the middle of a puzzle game. Some of those are simple, like controlling the ship’s scanner or deploying landing gear. By using the touch screen, players manage all of the ship’s functions while traveling around. The unique trick, though, is that the Wii U gamepad acts as the ship’s control panel. Image used with permission by copyright holder On the TV, the game plays out as a standard 2D puzzler where players have to navigate their ship around lasers, aliens, and more hazards. Naturally, that shakes out about as well as you’d expect and they’re stranded in space piloting a rickety ship. As its name implies, Affordable Space Adventures is about a galactic tourist who buys a cheap trip to the stars.
