- Play as Lila, who can create pocket dimensions at will
- Discover the history of a ruined city on Jupiter
- Talk to the city’s inhabitants and learn their stories
If you missed the Universe for Sale the first time, you have a very good reason to fix it now. The Epic Games Store mobile app will be giving it away for free this week from November 27 to December 4. It will be available worldwide on Android and in the EU on iOS. Not a bad result for one of the more distinctive narrative adventures released recently.
We wrote about the game after its release on iOS and its atmosphere has not lost any of its charm. In Universe for Sale you enter this abandoned colony floating in the clouds of Jupiter (don’t follow the science). It’s a place where the weather app frequently reads acid rain and strangers in teahouses chat freely about enlightenment and pocket universes.
Speaking of strangers in tea houses, much of the journey revolves around meeting the colony’s strange inhabitants, whether they be monkeys or skeletal creatures. As you progress, you will slowly discover the story of Lila, a woman who can create entire universes on the palm of her hand.
Universe for Sale originally began as a comic book, which doesn’t seem surprising given its narrative focus. Each frame carries a piece of the graphic novel’s DNA. Colangelo’s art style is also clearly noticeable, with hand-drawn, atmospheric, expressive and opulent details that draw you deeper into the floating slum.
So if you like narrative adventures that fall somewhere between cozy and eerie, you might like Universe for Sale. And since it’s free for a week, there’s no reason not to check it out and see why it’s on our list of the best mobile games of the year (so far).
If you want to dive deeper into the game before downloading it, it’s worth checking out our full Universe for Sale review, as it covers what makes this little story about Jupiter so fascinating.
