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{{quote|''"You'' are ''the'' busiest ''alien to ever romp around our humble solar system."''|'''Osmo'''}}

 

The setting is the Osmoian system, home of the quirky, amiable Osmos: aliens with huge feet and round, honkable noses. Your conveyance is a cozy two-room spaceship called the Osmobile, but you can also slip between worlds through [[Portal Network|a vast network of shortcuts]]. No matter where you end up, the Osmobile's autopilot will have it waiting for you in orbit.

 

 

Despite ''Osmo's'' fanbase on the [[Mac]], where it remained an exclusive until 2008, [http://store.steampowered.com/app/63620/ it can now be found on Steam] ''for Windows users only''. Even though the original won't run on today's OS X at all... and despite the developer of the Windows port saying that recompiling her work for OS X would be [http://www.runrev.com/newsletter/may/issue26/newsletter2.php "trivial".]

 

 

* [[Animesque]] -- The ''Ship Chip Lander'' cabinet art.

* [[Baby Planet]]

* [[Cool Gate]] -- Osmo's garage houses a portal that cycles between four destinations.

* [[Cool Shades]] -- Worn by a baby in the nursery. Instead of crying like the others, he [[Vocal Dissonance|bellows]] ''"OHHH YEAH."''

* [[Edutainment Game]] -- They aren't [[Solve the Soup Cans|obstacles to overcome]], but the CD version incorporates simple-to-use Bunsen burners, microscopes, etc. for kids to familiarize themselves with.

* [[Encyclopedia Exposita]] -- ''Cosmic Osmo: The Life of an Osmo''

* [[Everything Is an Instrument]] -- The player can click anything from a row of pots and pans to a row of babies in bassinets like a makeshift xylophone.

* [[Flat World]] -- Even though the planet in question is spherical when viewed from space, you can hit the edges of the map (with a "bonk" noise) when navigating by boat.

* [[Granola Girl]] -- Princess Osmorella, she of the lava lamps and [[Flying Car|"flower power" space van]].

* [[Gravity Screw]] -- The interior of Osmo's home is upside-down. Your mouse cursor is inverted to match.

* [[Improbable Weapon User]] -- In the peaceful Osmoian System, the most common weapon is a ''cotton swab''.

* [[Multiple Demographic Appeal]] -- It was promoted as being "for kids of all ages."

* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]] -- [[Albert Einstein|Prof. Elvis Osmostein]].

* <s>Planet</s> [[Planet of Steves|Solar System Of]] <s>Steves</s> [[Planet of Steves|Osmos]]

* [[Portal Picture]]

* [[Speaking Simlish]] / [[Memetic Mutation]] -- [http://cho.cyan.com/rawa/wohba.html Wohbanobongu!]

* [[Stylistic Suck]]

(On the screen, another Osmo [[Camera Abuse|bangs his head against the camera]] over and over, forever.) }}

* [[Superheroes Wear Capes]] -- An "Osman" comic with a caped Osmo is seen.

* [[Techno Babble]] -- Those rings on the Osmobile's nosecone? ''Aero-ether Quanto-particulate Detecto Rings.'' The antenna on top? ''A triple-loop Polar Yagi Recepto-Wod.'' And so forth.

* [[Treehouse of Fun]] -- Subverted. The treehouse is "a place of relaxation" with nothing but a hot beverage dispenser and some teacups on a picnic table.

* [[Updated Rerelease]] -- ''Cosmic Osmo and the Worlds Beyond the Mackerel'' added three new worlds to the original's four, along with enhancements such as a CD audio soundtrack.

* [[Wide Open Sandbox]]

* [[World of Chaos]] -- A pipe-smoking alien keeps a well-appointed living room inside the mouth of a spaceborne mackerel which you can shoot at with giant Q-Tips. ''Need I say more?''

 

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