Moons of Madness
21 Mar 2020
All releases
21 Mar 2020 - Xbox One
24 Mar 2020 - PlayStation 4
24 Mar 2020 - PC (Microsoft Windows)
24 Mar 2020 - Xbox One
Tags
Time to beat
Main story
Main story + extras
100% completion
Moons of Madness throws the player into a unique, first person, psychological horror game, combining Lovecraft influence with hard sci-fi.
The message confounded Orochi scientists. Their analysts broke it down and determined it was of intelligent origin. Orochi management immediately concluded that the discovery was too sensitive for public knowledge and moved to keep it hidden. In secret, the corporation began construction of Invictus, a state-of-the-art Mars research outpost designed to identify the true nature of the message. You are Shane Newehart, a technician stationed at the Invictus and your security clearance means you are completely unaware of the existence of the mysterious signal. Your job is simply to keep the lights on until the transport ship Cyrano arrives bringing with it a new team to take over your duties. Soon you discover strange and unusual setbacks. Crucial systems are malfunctioning, the greenhouse is filled with a strange mist and the rest of your team has yet to return from their EVA mission. Things are starting to fall apart.
Morpheus
0
Graphically it is an old game so i didn't expected much it is in fact pretty ugly but i never play these type of games for the graphics but for the mystery and the horror elements that comes with them and was rather disappointed.
One word comes to mind "frustration", it occurs too many times to the detriment of the horrifying atmosphere, mystery and tension.
Gameplay is very repetitive and clunky.
Puzzles really bothered me the most and stressed me out, they're never explained properly to ease their completions, in fact i needed to use Youtube video guides several time to resolve them.
Don't get me started on the qte's parts that start appearing from nowhere, in the most boring boss battle ever ( you heard me well a boss battle in a sim game) they were terrible and almost made me quit the game and never going back!
Exploration is never rewarded and very linear because the level-design is not that great, the same assets are used in every rooms (looking at boring rocks, seriously?) and very narrow areas and corridors to explore are used constantly.
Game loop is uninspired too, the objectives are quite boring to complete because of too much backtracking and redundancy.
Find this item, then do this puzzle, then unlock the next level. Rinse and repeat to advance the story.
Taking about the story now, it is not fleshed out, it is rushed, not very scary and the mystery aint entertaining or even compelling.
I enjoyed some of the side characters presented (shout out Declan) but they were never truly fleshed out and the computer logs, you can find throughout the game to know better about them and also revealing the mysteries of what's happening on Mars, weren't that pleasant and interesting to read, too much scientist boring lingo for the sake of it!
Finally i won't recommend to pay to play this game if you are as much into this genre as me.
I played many sim games, more scary, more entertaining than this game. Alien Isolation, Prey or Amnesia to name a few, and it doesn't hold a candle to them.
Still i finished it for the story that can be interesting in rare occasions but promptly fall into the cliché of better games than what Moons of madness ultimately is.
That's a 4 out of 10 for me.
Hamed72
0
Yorik
1
