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2000:1: A Space Felony

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This is British developer National Insecurities' first published game. They had been unsuccessfully trying to publish a game that dated to when the team members were at university. Although they had several promising leads, the deals fell through. During the time it took to follow these leads,
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in which astronauts travel through artificial gravity generated by a centrifuge, which did not seem possible using the game's simpler physics. They eventually solved the problem by rotating the outside world around the centrifuge while players were inside it.
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is "better at being a homage than a parody" and said exploring the ship recreated the feeling of watching a Kubrick film, though they found the gameplay itself less compelling.
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said the ship is "a joy to explore" and praised the art direction. They recommended it to fans of Kubrick and narrative games.
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Players control a detective sent to investigate a suspicious incident on board a spaceship. The crime scene imitates that of
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developed by National Insecurities and published by
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Index

2001
20001, a number in the 20000s
January 2000

Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
Humble Games
Engine
Unreal Engine
Platform(s)
Windows
Genre(s)
Adventure
Single-player
adventure video game
Humble Games
2001: A Space Odyssey
adventure game
first-person
Humble Bundle
Humble Original
itch.io
PC Gamer
Eurogamer
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