"Naturally episodic and admirably accessible, this is a game that fits a five-minute play window as neatly as it fits a five hour one."
"Years in the making, Transcendence, an epic space adventure and combat game has reached version 1.0."
"When the game is finished it could rival most commercial games in depth of scope and gameplay. It's just that good!"
A 91% score from UK-based Retro Gaming CD, plus a developer interview.
A nice review. I wished they'd linked to the Transcendence site instead of the download, though.
Indie developer and artist Derek Yu posts about Transcendence. Derek's most recent game, Aquaria, has garnered rave reviews.
Games for Windows presents their list of the best freeware games.
"The biggest surprise: realizing that we'd actually pay money for it."
A good review of Transcendence.
The Transcendence entry at Wikipedia has a good description of the game.