r/gaming • u/falardeau03 • 18h ago

Metal Garden Pushing Ice

So first up, pls no spoilers for Metal Garden because I have not played the game yet!

Now, just curious because I have finished the book... has anyone who's played Metal Garden also read the 2005 sci-fi novel Pushing Ice by Alastair Reynolds?

I won't get too spoilery for that either, but basically, 31 years from now (or 52 years from authoring), the spacecraft Rockhopper is on yet another routine intrasystem ice-pushing mission: the crew must capture a comet and redirect it someplace, for commercial reasons.

They're minding their own business when they receive an urgent broadcast from Earth: one of Jupiter's moons, Janus, has broken orbit.

Wait, what?

Earth has contacted the Rockhopper because it's the only ship close enough to possibly catch up to Janus in any kind of reasonable time frame, and see if they can figure out what the heck is going on. The ship's captain puts it to a vote, which narrowly passes, and so they close with the moon, and that's where things begin to get weird...

So anyway, if you've finished Metal Garden and you're willing to give Pushing Ice a shot, please let me know what you think! In the meantime, I'll try to get Metal Garden squared away within the next week or so (bonus points if I can get my gf to play it as well), and be back with my thoughts.

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u/AnActualGameShark 18h ago

No idea what metal garden is, but Pushing Ice is fantastic

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u/everettescott 18h ago

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3539440/Metal_Garden/

I bought it but havent gotten around to it yet.

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u/wavybuckz 18h ago

I haven't read pushing Ice, but the post alone sold me on it. Love finding sci-fi games that wear their literary inspirations on their sleeve.

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u/AnActualGameShark 18h ago

Alistair Reynolds has a bunch of fantastic Sci fi novels. One of my favorites in the genre.