Heavenly Bodies

Even in the frustrating moments when the controls seem to have it out for you, there’s so much to like about Heavenly Bodies. It’s a wonderful concept for a game, it’s impressively polished, and it’s hyper-focused in the best way. It feels like the devs took their time.

Heavenly Bodies deploys a fantastical movement system and clever puzzle design in service of a decent enough time on your own but probably deserves to be experienced with a friend.

A brief fumble in the darkness of space, Heavenly Bodies is designed to beguile you with floaty, physics based puzzles. It will scramble your brains as you perform the most straightforward of tasks, at times testing your sanity and (if playing in co-op) the strength of any relationship.

Heavenly Bodies comes to us from the Melbourne-based company 2pt Interactive. In it, you play an astronaut/cosmonaut tasked with doing a multitude of things while in space. Meanwhile, you’ll need to move your limbs accurately and work on puzzles, or space will suck you out into the void. Heavenly Bodies promotes the fact that it’s about “the body and the absence of gravity”. Played in the third-person, you’ll have a great time yelling at the astronaut to move as you progress through...