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Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space
Developer Z4G0 and Ivan Venturi Productions
You are John T. Longy, a night-watchman at JUPITER, a secret base, set in an old, partially abandoned research facility in a remote countryside location. JUPITER is the main laboratory of the OLYMPUS GROUP. The scientists there are conducting research on SPACE and TIME, but perhaps there is more to the experiments than meets the eye… From the Steam store page
237 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon) · newest Oct 25, 2026 · last updated Oct 26, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
48
Mixed
82 positive · 89 negative
95% range 41–55%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 82 | 89 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 8 | 1 | 53 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Mastodon * | 1 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
88 of 185 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
49% recommend · 85 yes, 89 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 174 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (147 of 286 positive).
Many players wanted to like the game but were frustrated by its flaws. [1][2][3] The game's retro sci-fi style and atmosphere are widely praised. [4][5][6] The puzzles are challenging but often obscure, and the controls are clunky. [4][2][7]
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- [1]
This is a really difficult game to recommend. If you take a gander at the negative reviews you will see the same sentiment echoed over and over "I wanted to like this game." And, I did want to actually like this game too, but there are some heavy flaws that get in the way of the experience. I think what it comes down to is that I am recommending this game because I think it was frustrating in the right ways more …
- [5]
Albedo – Eyes from Outer Space is essentially a first-person adventure game and I love it. It’s tricky too with the puzzles certainly giving your brain a workout, but lateral thinking will get you through and you’ll end up kicking yourself at the solution. The 50s sci-fi graphics are spot on and the game oozes atmosphere. I encountered one or two minor ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ but the game is in Early Access (out very soon I reckon) …
- [2]
It really pains me to write a negative review for this game; it's got tons of style and great ideas, and it's clearly a labor of love for its creators; but as an experiment in how to do a first person graphic adventure, it unfortunately misses more than it hits. Halfway through I had to start using walkthroughs. A little bit further, I got absolutely stuck even though I knew exactly what I needed to do, and ended up …
- [7]
A rather bad adventure game with a terrible UI which is slow and cumbersome to use. The mouse wheel is used to scroll horizontally through all the items in your inventory, which you have to do slowly otherwise you can't choose the exact object you want if done too fast. The mouse wheel is also used to scroll through actions when you mouse over or use an object, such as pick up, drop, observe, use with, throw and put …
- [15]
Erm like others 'I wanted to like this game'. What this game is : A fairly decent puzzle game with some annoying caveats, told in first person mode. What people wanted: Basically Bioshock with 50's kitch aliens. As you can see these are not the same things. The styling from the start made you think of a first person shooter.. NOT a puzzle game, which led to mass disappointment from many if not all purchasers of this …
Summarised from 34 of the 234 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
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The crowd is split on Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space: 85 recommend it, 89 don't. Which camp are you in?
Reactions
60 of 237 · most liked firststill the best moment from the game imo #genshinimpact #Albedo
positive · AI labelView post →I will be slowly uploading my old pieces for fun so here's #albedo from hit game #genshinimpact #art lolol
neutral · AI labelView post →It really pains me to write a negative review for this game; it's got tons of style and great ideas, and it's clearly a labor of love for its creators; but as an experiment in how to do a first person graphic adventure, it unfortunately misses more than it hits. Halfway through I had to start using walkthroughs. A little bit further, I got absolutely stuck even though I knew exactly what I needed to do, and ended up giving up on the game. The game's weird interface causes lots of problems and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a really difficult game to recommend. If you take a gander at the negative reviews you will see the same sentiment echoed over and over "I wanted to like this game." And, I did want to actually like this game too, but there are some heavy flaws that get in the way of the experience. I think what it comes down to is that I am recommending this game because I think it was frustrating in the right ways more than the wrong. I will always appreciate a game that tries do something more or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's just another boring night on the job for John T. Langley, nightwatch at the space station JUPITER, and the only solace from this monotonous position as a lowly guard amongst the important scientists working on god only knows what kind of experiment is yet another drinking binge. Who can blame him really? With the mundane day-in and day-out occupation of sitting and watching, wondering what exciting experiments your peers at the base could be conducting, left only to guess what the strange…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Albedo, Guardian Overseer (by Adsouto). Artist: **Adsouto** | [pixiv](https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/67469919) | [twitter](https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1019005244532035585) | [newgrounds](https://adsouto.newgrounds.com/) | [artstation](https://www.artstation.com/artwork/enEPP) | [deviantart](https://deviantart.com/view/732765172) | [patreon](https://www.patreon.com/user?u=2656201) | [danbooru](https://danbooru.donmai.us/posts/3186701) Full quality: [.webp 2…
neutral · AI labelView post →The feeling is real, Its easy to get use to the controls, the puzzles are intuitive, the save game is without checkpoints and its a good thing. The object options changes to attacking when facing a monster. The fighting is intense ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiuHJkLgKZI&feature=youtu.be
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, it's pretty obvious how much of an influence Sierra and Lucas Art adventure games inspired this (infact, make sure to keep looking at the tentacles...). It clearly tries to be as notoriously difficult as those games, but in some ways that doesn't work in its favor. Often times though, it does. The puzzles can be pretty esoteric, but none worse than some of those games. The controls are clunky. Not "clunky at times" just flat out clunky. But, they get the job done. I really do like this…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will open as several other reviews do: I really wanted to like this game. I must echo what I see as the dominant issue with the game: The inventory system is absolutely dreadful. I want to say it'd be fitting on a mobile device (as in perfect for swiping); it's NOTHING but annoying here. You have two buttons bound to Previous and Next Action. Not sure if that works in scrolling through your inventory; there is no proper menu for the inventory. It is a drop-down thing at the top of the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you are looking for a serious, deeply moving story in an adventure game - turn back. If you are looking for an easy, relaxing game - turn back now. If you are looking for a pure, old-school point and click - what are you doing? Run and never turn back! This game, THIS **** GAME somehow manages to be frustrating, funny, extraordinarily stupid and challenging at the same time. Why is that? Let me explain. The very first thing that one notices about this game is the style - very reminiscent…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Albedo – Eyes from Outer Space is essentially a first-person adventure game and I love it. It’s tricky too with the puzzles certainly giving your brain a workout, but lateral thinking will get you through and you’ll end up kicking yourself at the solution. The 50s sci-fi graphics are spot on and the game oozes atmosphere. I encountered one or two minor ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ but the game is in Early Access (out very soon I reckon) and the one-man team (yes, this game has been made by one guy!) is super fast…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Drinking game where every time an Artemis II astronaut says “Albedo” you take a shot
neutral · AI labelView post →First Impressions: Let me preface this by saying that I haven't spent a lot of time with the game, which is retrospect is exactly what the game expects you to do. What little I did play, I didn't really enjoy and often found myself frustrated. Without any sort of tutorial to guide me, I found myself stuck in the very first room for about twenty minutes just messing around with the various objects. Based on the trailers, I expected a FPS sci-fi game with an emphasis on the "S"...instead I…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I did some Googling and it appears to be a cosplay dress, of the character Albedo from the anime Overlord. On many sites it seems to be advertised as a Black Albedo Backless Dress. I know that doesn't directly answer your question, however I figure it may help you get closer to figuring out if this is a 'style' of dress or a creation of an artist.
neutral · AI labelView post →Xenosaga needs a resurgence so that in future crossovers it does they can use someone like Albedo who’s actually around for most of the story as villain rep instead of tertiary antagonist in one game present for maybe 30 minutes of cutscenes T-elos again for the dozenth time
neutral · AI labelView post →Craig Hilton and Paul Kidd's 1988 Albedo is a military science fiction roleplaying game, adapting Paul Gallaci's anthropomorphic "Erma Felna, EDF". Player characters come from a various of animal-derived races, courtesy off-stage genetic engineers. An entire planet of beings woke, with no memory
neutral · AI labelView post →A rather bad adventure game with a terrible UI which is slow and cumbersome to use. The mouse wheel is used to scroll horizontally through all the items in your inventory, which you have to do slowly otherwise you can't choose the exact object you want if done too fast. The mouse wheel is also used to scroll through actions when you mouse over or use an object, such as pick up, drop, observe, use with, throw and put in inventory. It makes it hard to do anything quickly which becomes a problem…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This one's old, I think I drew this before I got Albedo in-game. Because Khoi made a genshin quiz and shared to us all that he got Venti- 😭 and this was born #Albedo #GenshinImpact
neutral · AI labelView post →This game had me at the trailer. I love the feeling, the aesthetic, the atmosphere. All of it just culminates into this wonderfully weird game that I absolutely love. The puzzle design so far is quite good, and the controls are what I expected them to be; a little wonky, but in a good way. It helps the immersion, so I'm not gonna dock it for that. Really the only thing I'm seeing is the optimization is terrible, but that's to be expected in an early access title. So far, this game gets a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →hello every one i did a first look review of the game and checking out it story to how it plays an man it a funny and epic game it reminds me allot of the 1980s classic alien movies where they had the corny effects but in a good way you know here a little review i did on it hope you guys enjoy http://youtu.be/IOzu4aqwflQ
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While visually striking and thematically neat-o, Albedo is a really difficult game that isn't necessarily difficult for any good reason. Most of the time I've spent playing has been bumbling about looking at the levels because the gameplay isn't exactly friendly and most of the progression is based on arbitrary tasks, half of which I couldn't guess to save my life. I tried to avoid a guide for as long as possible but unless you're willing to spend hours in the same room progressing very little…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I give up. I wanted to like it, but too much of the gameplay is just you fighting against the game's crappy controls. Not fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Listen our time on earth is limited if I want to draw Albedo Kreideprinz and Ludwig Beilschmidt in the same frame then I SHOULD. LIFE IS A FLEETING GAME I SHOULD DRAW MY WHITE BOYS LOHS GEHTS
neutral · AI labelView post →After over 5 hours of entertainment, I can proceed to write down my humble review. What I liked: - Puzzles are NOT too easy. Hurray! - Well-crafted sci-fi graphics - The detailed scenes full of ambience - Uniqueness all-around. - Frequent updates What I didn't like: - The controls for the inventory - Some unpolished mechanics To be honest these are merely silly details, the game is fun and challenging, nothing really holds you back from the full experience. Also, the publishers/developers are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The battle system needed some work, sure, but the game also made up for it with more Albedo than any other game in the series.
positive · AI labelView post →If you are a fan of old-school point-and-click, this is the game for you. Puzzles are incredibly well designed, they will turn on your brain (have one is a requirement, sorry zombies or CoD players). The atmosphere is great and addicting, and exploring is really fun. If you look carefully you can find a lot of cool references (e.g. The Day of Tentacle). And the developer is super-open to users' feedbacks, so the final version cannot be a worsening of this. Consider buying, if you want to be…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space is worth buying if you're looking for a first person puzzle game that feels like an old point and click adventure. Contrary to the videos, there is almost no combat in the game and the little that does exist doesn't involve a shotgun. The puzzles themselves mostly consist of figuring out the order of using items in a room, which means you can easily spend an hour figuring out how to do something that only takes a few seconds or minutes. A video showing some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A really addictive game that promises fun and a lot of hours of gameplay! I really recommend it to everyone who wants to have a good time and discover the awesome storyline of Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space. The graphics and the music are really amazing too :D
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Albedo is a great sci-fi thriller puzzle game. The atmosphere and art style are pleasantly grimey and dark. The levels are interesting and enjoyable to explore. The puzzles have many layers and require a fair amount of thought and exploration to solve. The User Interface is unique and pleasing to the eye in most cases, although it can be a bit clunky at times. The Early Acess levels focus more on puzzles than combat. However, the Work In Progress levels include gun=play which is overall smooth…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3D Action Game modeling extra practice 8: Level prototyping. My new virtual world needs new materials: Albedo Colors. #gamedev #gamedesign #godot4 #godotengine #godot youtu.be/3wpuTYcVaVQ
neutral · AI labelView post →The trailer looked amazing, but when I started playing my excitement dramatically lowered. If it's not too dark to see interactable objects in the game, the puzzles themselves offer very little hints other than highlighting particular objects in a solid green light. I REALLY tried to like this game, and I'm sure once you get past the vague puzzles and dim lighting, it's a humorous game. Even the voice actor sounds terribly bored!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Early Access Game Buy Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space 14,99€ OR 5.16€ in a Bundle with 9 other games. http://www.bundlestars.com/all-bundles/killer-bundle/ Bundleware. You want to be Early Access? Then be Early Access. Including yourself in a bundle while also using Steams Early Access is a slap in the face of people who may buy your game at full price while it is Early Access. This game also goes on sale outside of Steam quite often. -60% off at GMG as of the time of this writing.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I made a video preview to show off some of the features and gameplay of this game! http://youtu.be/AseFVuWaF5g I hope you enjoy! Martyr
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →【Works】 I was in charge of the 3DCG reveal video of 「Albedo」 by void (Mournfinale) for the rhythm game 『In Falsus』 Thank you to lowiro for the opportunity! Please check it out in the full game. #infalsus
neutral · AI labelView post →Albedo Piazzolla, Jr. and Gaignun Kukai from Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht. More art from the game: www.creativeuncut.com/art_xenosaga...
neutral · AI labelView post →First of all, not everything is negative. If Steam would have a thumb, pointing to the side, I would had choosed it. Pros: - Demanding riddles, which can be compared to riddles of Point & Click adventures. - Good story telling in the end of the game. - Suitable sound effects. Cons: - Exhausting controls. - The most of the rooms weren't pleasant to me. - Unnecessary fights with aliens.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buy it. The game looks nice and its suprisingly well along for an early access game. Eyeballs with legs eat rats. 5/5
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space is an 80's inspired 'B' movie styled graphic adventure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srUOr64TaYM You play the role of John T. Longy, a night-watchmen in a secret lab called 'JUPITER' Things soon go horribly wrong and its your job to figure a way out. Puzzles come in the form of your typical 'point and click' classic formula.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Erm like others 'I wanted to like this game'. What this game is : A fairly decent puzzle game with some annoying caveats, told in first person mode. What people wanted: Basically Bioshock with 50's kitch aliens. As you can see these are not the same things. The styling from the start made you think of a first person shooter.. NOT a puzzle game, which led to mass disappointment from many if not all purchasers of this game. DON'T buy this game IF : you don't like obscure puzzles. DO buy this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is my review for Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space. This is a giant waste of time, money and energy. It’s an unfunny humour based puzzler. The voice acting is very terrible. Like really REALLY bad. It's as clunky as a 1920's Iron Lung. How this ever got a proper release, I will never know. I got this game for a deal with Humble Bundle, and it was cut with something else. If this had been a point-and-click adventure in the style of Grim Fandango, It would probably still be a horrible game. I’m…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You would think there'd be more games out there that aped the old, shlocky B-movie styles of horror and sci-fi. I'm particularly surprised it's not more common among indie games, where you could pass off Poser models and barren levels as rubber suits and movie sets. But I suppose if this game proves anything, it's that you need more than B-movie stylings to make your game fun. Albedo is a first-person adventure game, posing you as a dopey security guard at some secret laboratory. Things go…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a point and click puzzle game. With science fiction thrown into the mix. Like in my original review. I praised this game for it's puzzle mechanics. And i still do. You will have to put on your critical thinking cap to get through most of these puzzles. Some are easy. But some are harder, and in most cases requires certain items. The game is still glitchy and buggy in most parts and hopefully that will get patched up. But overall the game is very much playable and enjoyable. The only…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First, Let me preface this by saying that this game is made by ONE person...Fabrizio Zagaglia. What this man has accomplished by himself is remarkable. Albedo: Eyes from Outer Space is a first person action puzzle sci-fi game. Where you play a man trying to escape a lab during what seems to be an alien invasion. This game is just gorgeous looking. I've only played a few hours so far but according to the most recent update you can play through the full game now. You move back and forth…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A weird little puzzle based game that reminds me of X-Files and some of those older semi-creepy scifi shows. I'm not normally a fan of puzzle games but the scenes are full of ambience and weird little details that kept me interested in exploring. From the video I thought it was a mix of fps with puzzle elements but it is most definitely a puzzle gamer primarily in the vein of Myst/Riven . + Excellent weird creepy scifi atmosphere and details + Puzzles are a good balance to keep you looking…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great puzzle game! In some areas, almost to much of a stretch to solve - but only by a small margin - great concept, fun story and amazing classic sci fi core.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hope they meet in game soon 7.1 spoilers #mitya #albedo
neutral · AI labelView post →The non scale figure POP UP PARADE (Good Smile Company) of Albedo: Armor Ver. L Size from「OVERLORD」is available for pre-order! ・ Nin Nin Game : bit.ly/4llejfC ・ Hobby Link Japan : bit.ly/4lxVu9j ・ Release date : 02/2026 #goodsmile #overlord_anime #オーバーロード
neutral · AI labelView post →So it turns out I forgot the number one YouTube rule of "Assume the audience knows nothing" when I called Furry Outlaws the second furry TTRPG. Like, in my review of Albedo I did specify the difference between "A game that contains anthro animals," and a "Furry game," but forgot to do so this time.
neutral · AI labelView post →“Find Albebe” game #genshin #genshinimpact #Albedo
neutral · AI labelView post →Nice 50s sci-fi vibe, funny humor and very Interesting approach to puzzles.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#1 - ALBEDO: The Role-playing Game Designed by Paul Kidd and released in 1988 by Thoughts & Images, ALBEDO is based on the comic book "ALBEDO Anthropomorphics" and has the distinction of being possibly the earliest furry ttrpg. It is... clunky, in a very 80s game design kinda way.
neutral · AI labelView post →Paul Kidd, Albedo the Roleplaying Game, Thoughts & Images. 1988. Covers: Steven A. Gallicchi. Anthorpomorphic RPG.
neutral · AI labelView post →Unfortunately, even when this broken mess works properly, it's still frustrating to play in terms of design and controls. It's a shame, because the aesthetic is interesting.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a point and clicker but with more interaction and free movement. Reminds me a lot of one of my earliest posts, KGB Unleashed 1954 a lot, and that's not especially a good thing. It's a nice looking game actually, and has some good classic sci-fi business going on, but the first 20 minutes of my playtime were me just saying "what the ♥♥♥♥ is even happening." And that's at least partially my fault because there's an in-game manual that gives you some basic controls and a vague sense of what…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →See all the reviews by people saying they wish they could reccomend this game? Here is another one. The bugs and glitches in this game made me so angry but that anger turned to dissapointment after seeing all the interesting ideas this game tries. With a ton of bug fixes and tweaks this game could be genuinly good but as it stands its just too frustrating to reccomend. Buy on steep sale if curious.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Funny, difficult, indie, first-person adventure and puzzler. I liked the graphics, sound and scripting; just like the title and mentioned in the description, they are very reminiscent of early B-movie sci-fi. I mention this specifically as many of the negative reviews highlight this are seemingly missing the point. In the options, I chose the UK accent for my avatar and it was spot on. Each of the different areas had good graphic variation on the theme. I had no issue with the controls and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm loving it. I wasn't sure what to think since it has so many negative reviews but I feel like most of their gripes didn't apply to me at all. I LOVE that it's not holding my hand and that you need to explore the environments to figure out the puzzles. And with the inventory system... it's not really bothering me since I'm using a controller. It feels like he was trying to make the interaction a bit more contextual which was maybe a turn off to a lot. Anyways, I definitely recommend this. It…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Now that's an intriguing game, I have never seen anything like that before - and so far it seems pretty well done and has a lot of potential! I'll start the review with a few bad points (because there aren't many at all): *I found the interface VERY uncomfortable. Played the game for almost 5 hours and I feel I still didn't get used to it, as even 5 hours and a couple of levels into the game I found myself still confused and not getting to the action I meant to do rigt away. I guess they tried…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game looked awesome to my from the trailer. Early sci-fi cheesyness? Whats not to love! The gameplay and lack of voice acting, for one. I have been stuck in a room for 30 ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ MINUTES, with not a single clue of what to do. Pressing the "Hint" button does nothing, all it did was highlight ALL the items in the room(MANY of them absolute garabe that does nothing). Whats even worse, you are just THROWN into a room with little story other than OOPS A SCIENCE EXPERIMENT EXPLOSION THING…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I didn't see too much from this game yet, just like Angry Bob below me, I managed to reach to the 3rd room and I totally stucked there. What i shall say is this is the most beautiful partially puzzle game I ever seen, beautiful environment, nice details everywhere, awsome atmosphere (oculus rift support would be epic in this game) the physics are okey what I saw, the interaction with the environment is also good, sound effects? Gorgeous. The tools ingame are very original. The devs are…
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