Overview
Lester Knight Chaykin, a young particle physicist, is running an experiment in his high-tech underground lab when lightning strikes the facility. The power surge causes his particle accelerator to malfunction, tearing a hole in space and teleporting him to a hostile alien planet.
With no dialogue and no text overlays to guide you, you must survive an incredibly brutal landscape. You are almost immediately enslaved by towering alien humanoids, but form a bond with a fellow alien captive. Together, you must solve puzzles, engage in frantic laser gun shootouts, and escape the subterranean prison.
Visual Archive
Behind The Scenes
A One-Man Cinematic Masterpiece
Another World was developed almost entirely by one man, French developer Éric Chahi, over the course of two years. He painted the backgrounds, composed the rotoscoped animations, and wrote his own custom engine.
The Polygon Innovation
Instead of using standard 2D pixel art for the characters and foreground elements, Chahi used flat-shaded 2D polygons. Because the computer was rendering mathematical shapes rather than large image files, the game ran at an incredibly smooth framerate and could scale perfectly to any screen size. This gave the game a highly distinct, almost rotoscoped cinematic feel that deeply influenced future games like Flashback, Ico, and Metal Gear Solid.