You've barely managed to flee your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you find yourself in the shoes of a technician, without any knowledge of the complex systems, around you, that are keeping you alive. Faced with all kind of cosmic dangers, how long will you survive?
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Very clean and simple game that combines a lot of very cool element from many genres into a heart pumping sim game.
This game is currently in the Humble Choice for August 2023, this is part of my coverage of the bundle. If you are interested in the game and it's before September 5th, 2022, consider picking up the game as part of the current monthly bundle.
Life Pod Simulator.
Tin Can starts with the player on a ship that’s about to blow up in 60 seconds. They can grab all the supplies they can bring to the life pod, one at a time, but after that point, they will escape off the ship and wait for a rescue shuttle to pick them up in that pod. The main mode has 6 survival missions ranging from 6 minutes to 30 minutes, each with what seems like a set script of what is going to go wrong. There’s also a challenge mode with different challenges.
That being said, this is a game mostly about figuring out what is wrong, and how to solve it. This speaks heavily to the part of my brain that loves Zachtronics games and programming, but that also means most players might not enjoy it at that level. I had a lot of trouble figuring out the first issue with the pod, but now that I understand that one, the second mission was relatively easy, and I’m looking forward to even more.
Pick this up if you like puzzle-solving and dealing with problems, especially in a high-pressure situation. Limiting the problem area, and focusing on diagnosing the computer systems feels pretty fresh, but also there’s probably a limited number of unique missions here, so once you’ve run each survival and completed it, I’m not sure how much there is to do, even the challenges will be a bit limited, as there’s only a certain number of events that can happen.
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Life Pod Simulator.
Tin Can starts with the player on a ship that’s about to blow up in 60 seconds. They can grab all the supplies they can bring to the life pod, one at a time, but after that point, they will escape off the ship and wait for a rescue shuttle to pick them up in that pod. The main mode has 6 survival missions ranging from 6 minutes to 30 minutes, each with what seems like a set script of what is going to go wrong. There’s also a challenge mode with different challenges.
That being said, this is a game mostly about figuring out what is wrong, and how to solve it. This speaks heavily to the part of my brain that loves Zachtronics games and programming, but that also means most players might not enjoy it at that level. I had a lot of trouble figuring out the first issue with the pod, but now that I understand that one, the second mission was relatively easy, and I’m looking forward to even more.
Pick this up if you like puzzle-solving and dealing with problems, especially in a high-pressure situation. Limiting the problem area, and focusing on diagnosing the computer systems feels pretty fresh, but also there’s probably a limited number of unique missions here, so once you’ve run each survival and completed it, I’m not sure how much there is to do, even the challenges will be a bit limited, as there’s only a certain number of events that can happen.
If you enjoyed this review or want to know what I think of other games in the bundle, check out the full review on or subscribe to my Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/NNSGtTcLXoI