A masterful adaptation of Chahi's masterpiece, prettier and more complete than the Amiga original. Cinematic, mysterious and still wonderfully striking.
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Category
Action Adventure1 player12+
Description
Hero Conrad battles alien creatures to save his world in this Delphine Software film-adapted masterpiece. Published by Interplay, released in the United States in May 1992. Cinematic action-adventure with rotoscopy, gunfight and puzzle solving in a sci-fi universe.
Out of This World review
MAX
Art direction
★★★★★
"Iconic"
3/5
Music
★★★★★
"Memorable"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
Vector silhouettes, rotoscoped animation and cinematic framing compose a science-fiction tale of spellbinding restraint. The economy of means, far from impoverishing it, heightens the strangeness of a hostile alien world. This pared-down aesthetic, a pioneer back in 1991, keeps an intact power of evocation.
A physics experiment goes wrong and throws a young researcher onto a hostile planet, with not a word of explanation. The whole story passes through image: a fleeing silhouette, a cellmate met by chance, a friendship tied without a shared language. The refusal of written dialogue makes every gesture decisive and the ending devastating.
Out of This World is the NTSC edition of Another World, distributed by Interplay in the United States under naming specific to the American market (the US could not use the Another World title for rights reasons tied to the sitcom of the same name). Its collector value comes from this unique US naming and from the cult status of the Éric Chahi/Delphine Software game.
Is Out of This World still worth playing in 2026?
A cinematic platform adventure by Eric Chahi, Another World offers an almost interface free narrative experience where Lester is hurled into a hostile alien world. The minimalist vector art direction, the sublime rotoscope animation and the silent staging remain absolutely timeless. Difficult and demanding in observation, the title remains one of the most striking auteur works of the nineties and a masterpiece of narrative gaming absolutely worth discovering today still without the slightest hesitation truly here indeed in this catalogue.
