Cosmic Top Secret

I bought this game thinking it was going to be a goofy comedy with weird visuals. It is this but it is also so much more. The story is a straight up documentary of a daughter interviewing her father and mother who were both involved in some high level secret stuff during the Cold War. A lot of the game revolves around you exploring a map and discovering recordings, intel, photographs anything that relates to the daughter, T’s, life or her parents and colleagues. You find the intel, solve a 9 digit code and get to the next level. Each level takes about an hour to play. --------------- PROS + art. Let’s just get this out the way because it’s the first thing you see on the store page. The art is bizarre. It is all carboard cut outs which are drawn on one side and then are just natural on the back. You scrunch up into a little ball and roll around like Sonic the Hedgehog (but the contro

Cosmic Top Secret is unlike anything I have ever played. It's a story about relationships, secrets and the cold war all wrapped in a very charming and forgiving collect-a-thon with puzzle elements. The graphics are composed entirely of paper and cardboard with pictures on it, which is very fitting since it uses declassified documents from the Danish Security and Intelligence Service to tell the story. The way that CTS stands out from other games with a focus on collection, is the significance of each piece you collect. Every piece of intel has a story or fact tied to it, you'll recieve cursory knowledge of for example the cold war, T's parents, T herself and cryptography. It took me about 7 hours to reach full completion, including going through all the video and audio material. Getting those last pieces was really worth it, so I suggest you aim for full completion as well. Cosmic To

Initial impressions: A hybrid adventure/hidden object game. Great attention to detail with its cutout aesthetic with some live action recordings of the protagonist interviewing her family. A very personal project but fascinating from the position of an American with no deep perspective of a country closely tied to Soviet relations throughout the Cold War. Ready to dive in more.

Cosmic top secret is quite a peculiar game. It has a very unique art-style where landscapes and characters are made of carboard, paper and photography cuts. The game is a mix of documentary and collecthaton with some puzzle elements. It tells a very personal story recollected by T, the game dev director and player in the game, whose parents used to work for the Danish Intelligence during the cold war. The game felt like an homage of T to her aging parents while showing how "growing up in the clandestine climate of the cold war" affected her. This is a Danish game and most of the voiceovers are original audio and video interview recordings, so the game is mostly in Danish with English subtitles. I found the game very well done. It talks about serious topics but presents them with a light and amusing way that incite us to keep playing and discover more. We will learn things about various

I enjoyed this game thoroughly, the weird presentation, aesthetic, simple but engaging gameplay and the fact I don't know if this was all real, lore, troll or a History Channel documentary makes it all even better. Also it has a heartwarming ending.

A little expensive ($16.95AUD) for what it offers- but as an experimental multimedia experience about some lesser-known tales of the cold war, I'd say this is worth checking out if that's your kinda thing.