Osmos

Enter the ambient world of Osmos: elegant, physics-based gameplay, dreamlike visuals, and a minimalist, electronic soundtrack. Your objective is to grow by absorbing other motes. Propel yourself by ejecting matter behind you. But be wise: ejecting matter also shrinks you. Relax - good things come to those who wait.

Osmos is a indie, casual and puzzle game developed and published by Hemisphere Games.
Released on August 18th 2009 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 5 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain and Italian.

It has received 1,358 reviews of which 1,174 were positive and 184 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.2 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 8.19€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Osmos into these genres:

Indie Casual Puzzle Relaxing Singleplayer Physics Great Soundtrack Ambient Atmospheric 2D Difficult Space Minimalist Procedural Generation Arcade Sci-fi Science Strategy Simulation Education

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows XP or Vista
Processor: 1 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: 3D graphics card with OpenGL support. Minimum resolution 800x600
DirectX®: N/A (OpenGL)
Hard Drive: 33 Mb
Sound: definitely :)

MacOS

OS: OS X version 10.7 (Lion) or later

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, fully updated
Processor: 1 GHz or faster
Memory: 512 Mb or more
Graphics: Hardware accelerated OpenGL support. Minimum resolution 800x600
Hard Drive: 40 Mb free space

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

Such a wonderful game. Physics logic puzzle. Zen levels and soundtrack. Very careful use of acceleration required... Don't click (accelerate) without thinking. One click too much can mean the difference between life and death.

Oct. 2024

Osmos is a wonderful and calm experience - as long as you have a lot of patience. You play as a little mote absorbing other motes to become the biggest in most levels, or aiming to absorb specific motes in others. You expel a bit of your mass in order to move, so much of the game is based around trying to be very specific with where you move without expelling too much of your own mass. The game has a very zen-like atmosphere, with ambient music and cool colors, so it's easy to assume the game is very relaxing. But don't be fooled - some of these levels are absolutely brutal. The game features a speed up and slow down time function which helps with the patience aspect, but there are plenty of times when you'll be speeding up just to have to make a split second movement decision and instead propel yourself right into something bigger than you. The most challenging levels are the orbital levels, or the "force" section of the game, where your mote is orbiting around something larger and you have to figure out how to move while still attached to your orbit. Some of the later levels require you to move from the orbit of one object to another and then back again. This was a very hard concept to wrap my head around and I spent hours on just the last level of the game, patiently gathering mass, switching between orbits, only to die by unfortunate timing or expelling too much of my own mass to absorb anything else. It was a massive challenge that felt very satisfying to complete, but there was absolutely some frustration and headache along the way.

Oct. 2024

Relaxing meditating though challenging game. Perfect combination.

July 2024

Great game. I got it on mobile first then here. The simple take on the "eat smaller thing and become bigger" game loop popularized by a nearly infinite amount of browser game gets a simple and gameplay changing twist. You have to expel/spend your inner mass, making yourself smaller, in order to move. Genius. So much fun for a quick session in the morning to start the day.

June 2024

An absolutely unique game, unlike anything else. The only downside is the extremely difficult maps at the very end. But some levels are so good that I replayed them 10+ times.

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8.19€

8.2

1,174

184

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Developer

Hemisphere Games

Publisher

Hemisphere Games

Release 18 Aug 2009

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