Ugly duckling is a series of posts talking about games that could’ve been great, but were not.
I’ve talked about my love for Dead Space many times. When it was released in 2008, lots of people were excited about the first [RE-like] survival horror in space. But that’s not true. Dead Space was the first good (I’d say great) RE-like survival horror in space. 8 years before it, though, another survival horror in space was released, first on PC, then on PS1. It was called Martian Gothic: Unification, and it was, unless I’m mistaken, the first. Curiously, Dead Space even shares some concepts with this game. But the main difference between them is that unlike with Dead Space, it’s playing Martian Gothic isn’t that fun.