Ambrosia Sky: Act One Review – Deep Space Burial
Metroid Prime meets PowerWash Simulator is the elevator pitch for Ambrosia Sky: Act One. Set aboard a derelict space colony within the rings of Saturn, you’ll explore the apartments, science labs, and interstellar farms of this once-thriving community, reading notes, examining corpses, and using a tether to navigate unstable gravity fields. Equipped with a versatile chemical sprayer, you’ll also cleanse the colony of the deadly fungi contaminating its every nook and cranny–a first-person cleaning process that’s both cathartic and urgent, as you cycle through nozzle types and chemical agents to fight back against a hostile ecosystem by clearing it away.
As a sci-fi cleaning game, Ambrosia Sky is relatively novel. Yet developer Soft Rains goes one step further by taking you on a melancholic and sentimental journey about death. Specifically, dying alone in the far reaches of our solar system.
Playing as a woman named Dalia, you assume dual roles as both a field scientist and a space-faring undertaker known as a Scarab. When you’re not hosing down fungus and piecing together what happened before everything went to hell, you’re collecting biological samples from the dead and laying them to rest. “Where catastrophe strikes, Scarabs go,” is the mystical group’s unofficial motto. Their mission is to sequence the DNA of the recently deceased and find a way to reverse cellular decay in humans, all in pursuit of achieving immortality. But this lofty ambition takes a back seat to Dalia’s personal conflict as she’s forced to confront her past.
