You are Shane Newehart, an engineer who has been stationed on Mars in order to maintain and fix any issues which may arise at Trailblazer Alpha before the transport ship Cyrano arrives with a new team. So, let’s head off to Mars and see how good the Lovecraftian horror set in space was to play through… However, don’t let that sway your judgment on Moons of Madness as they have gone all-in when creating this game, complete with jump scares, horrific creatures, beautiful visuals, and interesting puzzles. Add on the psychological aspect of isolation and paranoia as the nearest rescue team is thousands of miles away on a different planet.It’s been a good few years for Lovecraft fans as there have been a number of games based upon his horrific creatures and lore, such as The Sinking City, Call of Cthulhu, and Conarium, how about one more? Moons of Madness takes the genre away from disturbing towns surrounded by hallowed waters which house demonic beasts and vile creatures, and it places us upon Mars, a waterless, desert planet which is about as isolated as you can get – I mean, have you seen the movie The Martian? So, with a new setting and spin on the popular theme, just how well has it been pulled off?įrom developer Rock Pocket Games, it seems like this type of game is a massive departure from what they’ve created previously, having released Shitflings, a colourful puzzle platformer, as their only console title prior to this narrative horror experience.
However, mysterious things keep on happening like malfunctioning crucial systems, a strange mist in the greenhouse and the rest of your team disappearing during an EVA mission.įace the cosmic horror and supernatural elements that threaten your very survival. This is where you step in, you will be playing as Shane Newhart who is a technician at the Invictus, you have no idea about the mysterious signal and all you care about is doing your job in making sure that the station runs until the next team brought by the transport ship Cyrano arrives. Determining that this came from an intelligent life form, they opted to keep this a secret and set forth in creating a research outpost in Mars called the Invictus.
The Orochi scientists of the Orochi management were able to interpret a mysterious signal that came from the red planet. Moons of Madness is an adventure video game that is developed by Rock Pocket Games and published by Funcom.
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