Moonshot - The Great Espionage Reviews

Neat little game! (I eventually figured out how to pass level 11 with the guards you can't hide from and who seem to always taze you first. The one that walk by a dog since the start.)

Fun little stealth game, cool mechanics, interesting and amusing story plot. Reminded me of The Final Station. I did find the occasional bug though, hope the devs polish it a bit more. Perhaps you want to buy it on a discount.

Lovely music, lovely pixel art, funny story. The game may be a little too easy. But overall great fun and worth every cent.

I was looking forward to this a lot, but it just isn't very fun. It feels more like an old-school point & click than a stealth game in the sense that often in order to progress you have to interact with every single object to see if any door or cabinet can be opened or not (which you have to do anyway to pick up cash), deal with the worst lockpicking minigame I've ever seen in ANY game, and a bunch of other stuff, which leads to it doesn't really feel like a stealth game where I can see a clear goal and formulate a plan how to achieve it, but rather just trial and erroring the way forward. I'm sure there is some depth here but I can't be bothered to find out. Also the trailer is misleading in that it makes it seem like there's actually a story in the game - there isn't, not at all, you just go on mission after mission with only the vaguest of effort put into a reason why as writing goes. Not that I'm against that had the stealth been better, but it is very misleading.

[i] My Experience [/i] I really enjoyed playing Moonshot, and inserting the fictional nation of Ustria into the space race. There were a few missions that tripped me up, but you'll be a lot more competent (both because of your experience and skill unlocks) at the end of your time with the game. Although the gameplay is fun, there's also typically only one, circuitous way to proceed in each level. I would welcome a bit more "immersive sim" into the experience. A few other points: [list] [*] One particular tricky section involves timing how long it takes a guard to cross a room, so that you can emerge when his back is turned. Your screen turns black when you climb inside the cupboard to hide. Although this was definitely tricky, it also made me feel like a super spy. [*] When you drop from one level to the one below, you will always fall in the center. This can make you accidentally set off infrared alarms that you thought you'd dodged. [*] Lockpicking is tricky, even with the upgrade. This could probably stand to be a bit more intuitive and less random. [*] When you retry a level, you (for some reason) keep the money that you acquired in your failed attempt and can collect it again. Therefore, you can (sort of) grind out enough cash to buy all the upgrades relatively early in the game. I did this unintentionally, just failing the same level over and over. [*] I wish the game didn't have the pixelated breasts on the screens in the game. Not because I was offended, but because as far as I know, that's the only NSFW aspect of the game. Since Steam often censors NSFW games by default, fewer players are seeing this game than it deserves. [*] Purchase the taser upgrade first. Although you don't need it much in the earlier levels, that extra charge will soon be a lifesaver. [/list] If you're a fan of this 2D style of stealth game (or you played Trilby: The Art of Theft and loved it), I'd recommend Moonshot. It's a little rough around the edges, but this sort of game isn't released very often.