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NASA are trying to put a man on the moon but in a remote corner of Siberia, a Soviet cosmonaut is heading in the other direction. Ivan Ivanovich is dropped into an extinct volcano in his exploration capsule, Little Orpheus, to explore the centre of the earth.\n\nIvan vanishes, emerging three years later claiming to have saved the world. In a top-secret bunker, he is debriefed by the fearsome General Yurkovoi. Little Orpheus casts players as Ivan as he recounts an adventure beyond belief: a tale of lost civilizations, undersea kingdoms, and prehistoric jungles deep below the Earth’s crust.\n\nBrought to you in glorious technicolour with visuals inspired by a bygone era of adventure, Little Orpheus is a serialised adventure inspired by classic movies like Flash Gordon, Sinbad and The Land That Time Forgot.","25016\u002Fco7wqr_webp","25016\u002Fsc8c2n_webp","https:\u002F\u002Fyoutu.be\u002FavGJU2hvVeA","2020-06-12",67.82,55068,"little-orpheus",1558930,[19,24],{"company":20,"developed":22,"published":23},{"name":21},"Sumo Digital",false,true,{"company":25,"developed":23,"published":22},{"name":26},"The Chinese Room",[28,29,30],"Platform","Puzzle","Adventure",[32,33,34,35,36,37],"PC (Microsoft Windows)","PlayStation 4","Xbox One","Nintendo Switch","PlayStation 5","Xbox Series X|S",[39,55,70,85,98,113,128,141,156,169,183,197,209],{"id":40,"author":41,"outlet":44,"summary":50,"review_url":51,"review_date":52,"original_score":53,"normalized_score":54},346,{"id":42,"name":43},39,"Lee Mehr",{"id":45,"logo":46,"name":47,"website_url":48,"score_format":49},1,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FTechRaptor%20Logo.png","TechRaptor","https:\u002F\u002Ftechraptor.net","10","Little Orpheus' Cold War-era narrative captures the fun of vintage adventure serials, but its gameplay is as rewarding as a Soviet breadline.","https:\u002F\u002Ftechraptor.net\u002Fgaming\u002Freviews\u002Flittle-orpheus-review","2022-03-01","5",50,{"id":56,"author":57,"outlet":60,"summary":65,"review_url":66,"review_date":67,"original_score":68,"normalized_score":69},2236782,{"id":58,"name":59},17841,"Kirk Hiner",{"id":61,"logo":62,"name":63,"website_url":64,"score_format":49},158,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FPurenintendo.jpeg","Pure Nintendo","https:\u002F\u002Fpurenintendo.com","Little Orpheus—an Apple Arcade game now remastered for Nintendo Switch—is the latest sci-fi\u002Ffantasy adventure to take us deep into the center of the Earth. Or did it? That's what hapless cosmonaut Ivan Ivanovich Privalov would have us believe, but General Yurkovoi is not so sure.Read More","https:\u002F\u002Fpurenintendo.com\u002Freview-little-orpheus-nintendo-switch\u002F","2022-09-12","7.5",75,{"id":71,"author":72,"outlet":75,"summary":80,"review_url":81,"review_date":82,"original_score":83,"normalized_score":84},62702,{"id":73,"name":74},3923,"Kim Snaith",{"id":76,"logo":77,"name":78,"website_url":79,"score_format":49},27,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FGameSpew-Logo.jpg","GameSpew","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gamespew.com","I can’t quite recommend Little Orpheus, and not just because of its unfortunate choice of narrative given the current climate. Its story is at least told in an interesting way, and it presents you a colourful, well-realised fantasy world to explore. But its platforming is dull and uninspired; you’ve seen it all before in other games. Though being inside a whale is cool, I guess.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.gamespew.com\u002F2022\u002F02\u002Flittle-orpheus-review\u002F","2022-02-28","6\u002F10",60,{"id":86,"author":87,"outlet":90,"summary":95,"review_url":96,"review_date":67,"original_score":97,"normalized_score":84},30058,{"id":88,"name":89},3186,"Lowell Bell",{"id":91,"logo":92,"name":93,"website_url":94,"score_format":49},34,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FNintendoLife-Logo.jpg","Nintendo Life","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nintendolife.com\u002F","As much as we adored the charming back-and-forth between Ivan and the General, we also began to lose interest in Ivan’s predicament near the end. There’s no narrative payoff here, no greater meaning or memorable conclusion that sticks with you. In Little Orpheus, The Chinese Room flirts with providing a more engaging experience that never quite materialises, made all the more apparent by the lack of puzzles intuitive enough to give us the barest hint of a dopamine-laced ‘aha!’ moment or a chase sequence or two with enough challenge to make us sit up on our sofa. That aside, the richly detailed worlds and superb presentation provide just enough reason to see Ivan's tall tale through to the end, but we ended up wishing there was more on both the puzzling and narrative fronts.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.nintendolife.com\u002Freviews\u002Fswitch-eshop\u002Flittle-orpheus","6",{"id":99,"author":100,"outlet":103,"summary":108,"review_url":109,"review_date":110,"original_score":111,"normalized_score":112},52350,{"id":101,"name":102},1088,"Josh Wise",{"id":104,"logo":105,"name":106,"website_url":107,"score_format":49},74,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FVideogamer-logo.jpg","Videogamer","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.videogamer.com\u002F","Where Little Orpheus differs from its predecessors, and what marks it as a curious mobile game, is that you appreciate it most when you aren’t playing.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.videogamer.com\u002Freviews\u002Flittle-orpheus-review\u002F","2021-06-05","7.0\u002F10",70,{"id":114,"author":115,"outlet":118,"summary":124,"review_url":125,"review_date":67,"original_score":126,"normalized_score":127},65852,{"id":116,"name":117},5054,"Will Cruz",{"id":119,"logo":120,"name":121,"website_url":122,"score_format":123},72,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002Fthe-escapist-logo.jpg","The Escapist","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.escapistmagazine.com\u002F","unscored","","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.escapistmagazine.com\u002Flittle-orpheus-review-in-3-minutes-a-whimsical-gorgeous-platformer\u002F","Unscored",0,{"id":129,"author":130,"outlet":133,"summary":138,"review_url":139,"review_date":82,"original_score":140,"normalized_score":112},66792,{"id":131,"name":132},1925,"CJ Andriessen",{"id":134,"logo":135,"name":136,"website_url":137,"score_format":49},10,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FDestructoid-Logo.png","Destructoid","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.destructoid.com","As I said at the top of my review, I’m a bit embarrassed I missed out on Little Orpheus when it hit Apple Arcade a year and a half ago. However, because of that blunder, my first excursion through the game was a memorable one because I played it on a screen and a piece of hardware that could truly do those visuals justice.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.destructoid.com\u002Freviews\u002Freview-little-orpheus\u002F","\n\t\t\t7\t\t",{"id":142,"author":143,"outlet":146,"summary":151,"review_url":152,"review_date":153,"original_score":154,"normalized_score":155},72522,{"id":144,"name":145},4920,"Leif Johnson",{"id":147,"logo":148,"name":149,"website_url":150,"score_format":49},69,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FIGN-logo.jpg","IGN","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ign.com\u002F","There’s not much to Little Orpheus’s gameplay apart from moving left to right, jumping, and interacting with a few objects, but that's compensated by stellar voice acting and gorgeous settings to journey through. You’ll find some light puzzles and platforming challenges here, but this is an interactive story above all else – and that’s not a knock against it. Some repetition settles in by the end, unfortunately, and you’ll see some minor frame rate drops even on a brand new-iPhone. But for the first time in months, Apple Arcade has justified its $4.99 subscription cost with a game well worth playing.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.ign.com\u002Farticles\u002Flittle-orpheus-review","2000-01-01","8",80,{"id":157,"author":158,"outlet":161,"summary":166,"review_url":167,"review_date":13,"original_score":168,"normalized_score":155},78365,{"id":159,"name":160},4637,"Thomas Hughes",{"id":162,"logo":163,"name":164,"website_url":165,"score_format":49},56,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FTheSixthAxis-Logo.jpg","TheSixthAxis","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.thesixthaxis.com\u002F","Little Orpheus sets a new bar in mobile gaming experiences. Its rich, lush world is only surpassed by the fantastic narrative and voice acting and the stellar soundtrack composed by Jessica Curry and Jim Fowler. It does become a little repetitive by the end, but chances are you will already be gripped and engaged with the story, wanting to see how Ivanovich survives the fantastical dangers of this subterranean world.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.thesixthaxis.com\u002F2020\u002F06\u002F12\u002Flittle-orpheus-review\u002F","8.0",{"id":170,"author":171,"outlet":174,"summary":179,"review_url":180,"review_date":67,"original_score":181,"normalized_score":182},84802,{"id":172,"name":173},6815,"Harm0nica",{"id":175,"logo":176,"name":177,"website_url":178,"score_format":49},41,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FXbox%20Era%20Logo.jpg","XboxEra","https:\u002F\u002Fxboxera.com\u002F","In conclusion, this is a well-written and visually impressive game that conveys the developer’s clear love of its cinematic serial-based inspirations.  It is a chilled experience and a fairly pleasant way to spend five hours.  Unfortunately, the simple control scheme proves to be not up to the standard required for a game in this genre, and after a rather weak ending there is very little replayability for all but the most hardcore achievement hunters.","https:\u002F\u002Fxboxera.com\u002F2022\u002F09\u002F12\u002Freview-little-orpheus\u002F","6.5",65,{"id":184,"author":185,"outlet":188,"summary":193,"review_url":194,"review_date":195,"original_score":196,"normalized_score":162},98357,{"id":186,"name":187},8921,"A.J. 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Well, here's Little Orpheus.","https:\u002F\u002Fvideochums.com\u002Freview\u002Flittle-orpheus","2022-09-13","5.6",{"id":198,"author":199,"outlet":202,"summary":207,"review_url":208,"review_date":67,"original_score":126,"normalized_score":127},106299,{"id":200,"name":201},6668,"Scott Nowbaveh",{"id":203,"logo":204,"name":205,"website_url":206,"score_format":123},129,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002FStart-Menu-Logo.jpg","StartMenu","https:\u002F\u002Fstartmenu.co.uk\u002F","A tenth episode is really the main addition compared to the Apple Arcade version. Without spoiling too much of the game’s original ending, this acts as something of a more conclusive ending. It removes some ambiguity from an already strong ending. It’s also one of the best and most interesting in terms of gameplay mechanics also. It left a good impression on an already strong ending.","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.startmenu.co.uk\u002Fhome\u002Freview-little-orpheus-an-adventure-too-big-for-a-small-screen",{"id":210,"author":211,"outlet":214,"summary":219,"review_url":220,"review_date":67,"original_score":154,"normalized_score":155},2239501,{"id":212,"name":213},17880,"Dean Clark",{"id":215,"logo":216,"name":217,"website_url":218,"score_format":49},159,"https:\u002F\u002Fcdn.criticdb.com\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Favatars\u002FOutlets\u002Fgametyrant.webp","Game Tyrant ","https:\u002F\u002Fgametyrant.com\u002F","A fun little game that brings a quirky adventure for players to experience!","https:\u002F\u002Fgametyrant.com\u002Fnews\u002Flittle-orpheus-review-a-quirky-episodic-adventure",13,[21],[26],[]]