
- 50/100
- Players1 rating
- 75/100
- Critics3 reviews
More scores
- Metacritic14 critic reviews
- 61/100
- Metacritic usersuser score
- 70/100
- GameFAQsJust Right
- 3.5/5
- Player reviews
- 69% positive1,085 reviews
- Runs on
- Windows
- Price
- Free
Where to get it

2017 · ION LANDS · Adventure · Indie
Phoning Home
You play ION, a young exploration unit on a mission to secure natural resources. When you crash-land on an alien planet your ship is almost completely destroyed. Not only do you have to survive in a strange new world full of dangers, but to have even a hope of escape you must find a way to contact your home planet for help.
- Released
- 7 February 2017
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genres
- AdventureIndie
- Developers
- ION LANDS
- Publishers
- ION LANDS
- Modes
- Single-player
- Perspective
- Third person
- Themes
- ActionScience fictionSurvivalOpen world
- Engine
- Unity
- Languages
- Chinese (Simplified), English, French, German, Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Spanish (Spain)
- Features
- Family SharingFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam CloudSteam achievementsSteam trading cards
- Time to beat
- 8hmain story13hcompletionist
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