Last Horizon is a post-apocalyptic orbital mechanics indie title. You may or may not be the last human, and you have a little lander craft. Time to find out if life still exists in the universe because we fucked up the planet (as usual).

Back in 2016 I played a title called The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human, and despite this game having a totally different genre to it, the mood and text popups here felt familiar to that. Both these games were released around the same period, and this graphical style was popular at the time. Chunky pixels still are. I like chunky pixels.

Lets go explore some space!

Press A (or Z) to engage thrust! Press right or left arrows to turn!
Congratulations, you can control the lander.

Hah! Despite the instructions showing "A/Z" you have no reverse thrust. Likely some AZERTY bullshit that was not translated to the screen properly. No, if you want to reduce your thrust you better turn your ship around and thrust again! You think you can slow down? Oh, you stupid human! We'll let you slow down, we'll also let you smash your ship into that there moon, causing it to move off balance and smash into the planet below you!

Oh, baby! Are you going to want to try that again. That's right. We have permadeath here!

Thankfully the game makes a clunking sound and you are quickly back on the starter dead-earth planet. Oh, and you can skip ahead to other chapters too as we know you really can't be arsed unlocking them.

The real aim is a far away target. And I'll admit. I saw this thing once in my attempts at playing this game. Just on the edge of the screen, then I ran out of air and died.

Your little craft needs both Fuel and Oxygen to keep running. And you can resupply by making short jumps to nearby planets, draining them of their precious resources. I'm not sure why planets have so little, I'm guessing humankind stripped them all on their journey across the stars.

Get into orbit. Synchronise with safe and flat land below, and ease yourself down. Be sure to hit no mountains or craggy cliffs. Do not fully submerse yourself. Hands and luggage tucked away at all times. The craft will refuel itself and take that precious ore. Can you increase your fuel or oxygen tanks? NO!

But you can find a Gaia world. Or another planet of humans. And strip all the resources from the entire fucking planet into your tiny ship.

Look, if you have a pocket dimension, let me have some o2 in that thing.

Eventually aliens show up. Strip too much material out of a planet and the planet of the purple polygons sends some rather powerful craft to blow you to bits. And they will blow you to bits. So, be a nice human (Yes, we know that is hard) and don't take more than half a planet's worth of materials.

Other things can also blow you to bits! Don't you be thinking it is just the aliens!
A comet will happily ram into you. Or a black hole will crush your hull. A sun will cause you to burst like a grape. Or an asteroid will want to get inside and steal your mangos or something.

Are you are resting on a planet and look to your left at a cute doggo who wants cuddles, thinking everything is safe/ Think Again! There's no safe rest stops here!
Because you need to die, human. Damn. Yes, the game is hard and brutal. And yet...

And yet the more I played it, I did find myself slowly getting better. Making it a little further each time. Learning how to avoid and detect when some RNG was out to smite me.

I... Enjoyed this. Despite the difficulty level for myself. It will be lost in the astral see of indies but is a decent little title. Pick it up on a sale and smash your face into a comet.

Game Acquisition: Bundle Stars (Frenzy 1)
Platform Used: Steam
Tweet Threads: 1 - 12 April 2021
PC Used: Scorptec Master-RTX2070 2019 MK1

OS: Windows 7
Processor: 1 Ghz CPU
Memory: 500 MB RAM
Storage: 80 MB available space