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UFO 50 is celebrating its one-year anniversary today, September 18, 2025. Below, we reflect on how digesting the game week by week for an entire year has made a lasting impression.
UFO 50 is the most audacious game experiment I’ve ever seen. The pitch–a fictional retro game collection consisting of 50 full-fledged retro-style games, all connected with sequel iteration and a winding meta-narrative–was impressive from the first moment I heard about it. I loved the game when I reviewed it last year, and it ranked highly on my list of the year’s favorites.
But even still, I wasn’t prepared for how UFO 50 would follow me into this year with ritualistic regularity. In the end, this collection of fake retro games has been an incredible ongoing lesson in game design.
For my review, I dabbled in all 50 games, but naturally, I didn’t complete them all. Not even close. I played enough to get a feel for them, to see the breadth of genres, and to pick a few key favorites that I spent more time with. That was enough for an initial, critical evaluation.
At the same time, I caught wind of an almost equally audacious plan from the podcast Eggplant: The Secret
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