Lunar Nightmare Reviews

Very poor gameplay guidance. Stuck in the first 5 minutes. Objective says go to this door, then the door panel says go to some place to unlock... can't find it - been everywhere accessible. If you're gonna have objectives, then update them when sending me somewhere else. Maybe I'd get through this (or watch a video and see if I just had a brain fart), but I also didn't want to, cuz the overall environment was a bit of a mess; floating items (that aren't supposed to), unclear what is interactive and what isn't.. Just not polished enough to want to commit my time to figure it out.

I don't think this game is completely done yet... there's a lot of bugs involved to the point where the first time I tried to play it... it locked up my entire PC. The second time I actually got to play it... but suffered not one but TWO "Fatal Errors" that crashed the game out completely. Also the music in the game is way too overbearing... and I find that if you shut it off completely it really helps sell you in the ambiance of the game and the solitude of space. However when the game keeps crashing... it breaks your immersion and you just become highly frustrated. Then we get to the Storage Area in the game... and I swear it was like the game was running on 5fps. There's also not much too it to call it horror that I've encountered so far... just blood in a lot of areas and the fact that in space... no one is around... so yeah they're not going to hear you scream. I like the idea... but I feel the execution could use a lot of work.

Unfortunately I have to give this a thumbs down. The game started off alright, I was enjoying it. It is a space horror themed walking sim, you wander around finding keys and notes, and other items to progress. The story is actually quite good, but the game itself is pretty rough around the edges, lacks a lot of polish, feels like it was rushed to release. There is a warehouse level where you get a massive FPS drop, for example. Badly optimized area. The lighting in this game is horrible, unless you are outside on the surface of the moon, that was actually well done. But inside structures it's too dark and the flashlight does not even help too much. Also, I can see the dev used AI to generate images for posters and ID cards, that's just lazy. There are two game breaking bugs that will prevent you from finishing the game: one is with the lunar vehicle, if you leave the game or you die, the game will respawn you at the mainbase but will save the location of the vehicle wherever you left it before closing the game or dying. Which means you will have to walk a huge distance for minutes if you wanna keep playing. The other game breaking bug is right at the end which prevented me from beating the game. Right after you listen to the AI monologue, you are supposed to go the launch access area, which is locked. To unlock this door you need to access a computer, but when you do so the door in this room gets locked and then you are stuck there with no way out. This door was not supposed to close and lock , it was supposed to stay open. That was the last drop for me, I ended up watching a video of the end of the game on youtube and that was enough. I didn't miss anything because the end of the game is horrible.

Its like a shorter version of starfield but with a horror vibe. I beat the game in 6.1 hours. It has a very futuristic robot space feel and very fun gameplay. Highly recommended realistic space horror games