UFO50

Release Date: September 18, 2024

Platforms: PC

UFO50 is the latest game from Spelunky maker Mossmouth and one fans have been waiting a while for. The title refers to a collection of 50 retro-inspired games built from the ground up to look and feel like a library of long-lost NES cartridges. I tried to flip through as many as possible in my short 10 minutes with the game, and found an RPG in the vein of Dragon Quest, a beat-em-up reminiscent of Double Dragon, and a space golfing game that is unlike anything I’ve played before.

There’s local co-op and a meta-story that runs through each game about the fictional company that made them. None of the ones I came across seemed like something I might end up spending hours playing, but I’m excited to dig into the full collection and pretend I’m back in my neighbor’s basement grinding through the same five games we had lying around over and over again because we were too poor to buy more. — Ethan