Osmos - Most Relaxing Game You've Never Played

There are certain games that sneak into your life, you've never heard of them, they have no real advertising budget, and when you play them you are astounded that it took you this long to find out about it. Osmos is one of these games. It is an award winning, critically acclaimed game that has an amazing artystyle and an equally amazing soundtrack. Yet until a holiday sale on Steam I had never even heard of it, which is a shame.

Osmos finds you, a small little creature, like an amoeba or single cell animal, capturing other motes of matter and devouring other creatures. This may sound violent, and honestly I'm not 100% sure what you are playing as. It doesn't matter as the games storyline is frankly irrelevant. The gameplay is what is most important here, and this of course where developer Hemisphere Games put in the most work.

Gameplay in Osmos finds you floating around in a level with an objective (become the biggest or devour the repulsor) and it's up to you to find out how to best do this. The way you move around takes a little getting used to, or at least it did for me. You move by ejecting matter from yourself propelling you in the opposite direction. Of course this makes you shrink, and seeing how you can only devour motes smaller than you this can have a negative impact on your ability to finish the level.