Environmental Station Alpha Free Download (Build 16016005)

In the game, the player controls a robot sent to investigate a mysterious, abandoned space station with the mission to find out what exactly took place there. Overrun by wildlife the station is immensely dangerous to explore, and on top of that earthquakes have made navigating the various areas very challenging. Over the course of the game, the player must uncover secrets, fight loads of bosses, and amass powerups in order to really figure out the fate of the space station.

Environmental Station Alpha is a criminally unnoticed game, and on the surface it’s not that surprising why. When people think of indie sci-fi-styled metroidvanias nowadays they’d probably think of Axiom Verge, which has a far flashier pixel art aesthetic and introduces a novel ‘glitching’ mechanic. ESA plays it far closer to home on the Metroidvania side of things but nails certain aspects of the genre that many other games do not.

What truly sets ESA apart however is that it is actually a game of two genres, where the gameplay in both genres is realized almost to their full potential; only a few crucial steps from being a true masterpiece. It’s a game that delivers long after you think you’re done with it, and transitions between genres so drastically that by the end you’re playing a completely different game than what you started with.