Phoning Home
Open-world survival adventure about a stranded robot seeking help
ION LANDS · Released Feb 7, 2017
- Reviews
- Mixed
- 69% of 1,084
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 0
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Untested
- Last update
- 7 years ago
- Jun 5, 2019
Metacritic: 61/100 (critic reviews)
What is Phoning Home?
A single-player survival adventure set across large, open areas of an alien planet, where you control ION, a robot stranded after a crash. You explore, gather resources, craft tools, solve puzzles, and protect another robot while trying to contact home.
For you if...
- +you enjoy exploring alien landscapes and solving puzzles
- +you like survival crafting with a story about robots
Not for you if...
- −you dislike escorting companions and frequent resource gathering
- −you prefer exploration without increasingly difficult challenges
What players say
69% of 1,084 reviews are positive
Players praise the exploration and the relationship between the two robots. They complain about repetitive resource gathering, escorting ANI, and bugs that can interfere with navigation.
Screenshots and trailer
Phoning Home system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP / 7 / 8.1 / 10
- Processor
- Intel Core i5 / AMD, 2.5 GHz
- Graphics
- Dedicated GPU, NVIDIA or AMD, 1.5 GB video memory
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 10 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 10
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 7 / 8.1 / 10 (64-bit)
- Processor
- Intel Core i7 / AMD FX-8350, 3.4 GHz
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 (3 GB) / AMD R9 290 (4 GB)
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 10 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Full controller support
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 52
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English, German. Text only: French, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Hungarian, Simplified Chinese, Polish.
Tags
- Adventure
- Action
- Indie
- Survival
- Open World Survival Craft
- Open World
- Exploration
- Crafting
- Robots
- Singleplayer
- Sci-fi
- Atmospheric
- Nature
- Third Person
- Story Rich
- Puzzle
Recent updates
- Jun 5, 2019 · World Environment Day Celebration Sale
- Jun 18, 2018 · Summer Update
- Dec 11, 2017 · Chinese Update
- Dec 11, 2017 · Chinese Update
- Sep 15, 2017 · Version 1.3
1 DLC available.
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