Ambient touch: Hemisphere Games' Osmos due July 8th for iPad

Above: the first video of multiple IGF award finalist and all around fantastically ambient game Osmos running on the iPad, ahead of its July 8th App Store release date. I've been lucky enough to spend the past couple weeks with a pre-release version of the game and it's quickly become one of my iPad favorites. You'll have to reconfigure your brain slightly to adjust to its particular brand of ambient play: though it shares some of the same basic consume-to-consume-more mechanics as something like Katamari, attempting to approach it with the same carefree knockabout spirit is a quick way to instant failure. Instead, you'll need to more slowly and strategically work your way around each level, looking for openings and playing the waiting game. Hemisphere have more information on the new additions to the iPad version (and the iPhone version to follow a month later), and, coincidentally, Steam has the PC and Mac version of the game currently on deep discount for a mere $2.50 to give it a whirl ahead of time. Osmos for iPad, coming July 8th [Hemisphere]

• [DJBudSonic]

  Hmmm…. Can I get the discounted price as I already own Electroplankton? Then I can make more informed comments.

• [zikman]

  because of this post, I have gone out and downloaded steam, created an account, and purchased the game Osmos. thank you. I look forward to playing it.

• [Dealspwn]

  Excellent little game, and the steam price is brilliant this weekend. Only £1.74 for those of us in the UK – great! I bought it about a year ago and lost a few weekends to its ambient fun…

  Emma

• [Sethum]

  NOTICE: Osmos is $2.50 on Steam for TODAY only. By noon tomorrow, it will be back to $10.00. I picked it up last night.

• [Anonymous]

  good game would like more levels , and variety do you have other games along these same lines