Lifeless Planet

Lifeless Planet is a third-person action-adventure about an astronaut searching for life on a distant planet. After a hard landing, he finds a barren wasteland instead of the world rich with life he expected. While searching for his crew, he discovers signs that humans reached the planet years earlier, including an abandoned Soviet-era Russian town. He begins to question whether his mission is a hoax or his light-speed journey sent him back in time.

The astronaut and Aelita

The astronaut meets Aelita, a Russian woman who can survive the planet’s hostile atmosphere. A natural phenomenon makes the soil glow green beneath her skin, leaving tracks the player can follow across dangerous terrain. It is unclear whether she is leading him to safety or to his death.

Explore and survive

You explore 20 distinct environments across the vast, treacherous planet, encountering dangerous terrain and deadly life-forms. With a limited-use jet-pack and a mobile robotic arm, you solve puzzles, investigate the abandoned town and unravel the mystery while trying to survive.

The story

The game draws on Cold War-era science fiction and explores questions about humanity’s desire to travel through space. Its story asks what it would mean to make a one-way journey from Earth in search of an Earth-like planet, only to find humans had already been there. The narrative unfolds through graphics and cinematic cut-scenes.