Success therefore is a balance between deciding what planets to land on in order to stock up on supplies and, in some cases, meet the locals, and your ability to fly the craft. Split into four different adventures, little changes from one encounter to the next except the difficulty, and with only limited fuel and oxygen on board until you land your craft, Last Horizon is a real tale of survival against the odds. Left alone on a barren planet now no longer capable of sustaining life, it’s your job to take off in your rocket to find a new home, sapping resources from the other rocks you pass along the way to ensure you have the tools to terraform whatever world you end up inhabiting. Those who manage to stick with it, however, will discover its take on life out in the vast expanses of the universe actually has much to offer. The problem for Last Horizon is, if you measure the game by its opening moments, it fails abysmally.
Whereas a player may be willing to give a game they’ve forked out £40 for a fair few hours to prove its worth, the relatively low cost of most mobile games means there’s no harm in deleting a title in a quicker time than it took to download. If they’re not impressed with what’s on offer within the first minute – maybe even the first few seconds – then they’re gone for good, and the chances are the game will have been deleted mere seconds later. If there’s one thing that distinguishes mobile games from their cousins on console, it’s the need to get the player on board in quick time.
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