Luna Reviews

Luna is perfect for introducing people to VR - one can play it seated and just quietly take in the story. It's a short game, but take your time with the environments and just play around. Good for younger players too.

Played on HTC Vive Pro/Valve index controllers/RTX2060Super. One thing I can say, it looks absolutely gorgeous. The 'puzzles' are all the same for each level, but especially when you have 'connected the dots' it's not clear what you had to do, I thought you had to toggle the strings in a certain order, before I found out through the forum you had to position the strings (by rotating the whole contraption) to a certain position. Also in the diorama world itself it's just putting as much junk on the floor/water and give it some color and that's about it. Also it seems to disable the visible safety boundary, which is not good. I bought the game in sale for 1,49 euro, if you can get it for anything below 5 euro's you should certainly buy it. For me the 14,99 euro pricetag it is at the time of writing is just too much. Don't get me wrong, it's a beautiful game, but I wished they had created some different puzzles.

A short but very beautiful narrative game telling a story about Bird healing the world with songs. The art is lovely, and the soundtrack and sound effects convey perfectly the relaxing atmosphere of the game. Absolutely charming!

The touching story, the beautiful art-style and the relaxing music made it feel like all of it was a dream 🌙 If you're looking to play a bit before going to bed, Luna is a great bedtime story for that

I bought this on sale for $2 and I feel like I should have paid full price. Played it in VR with a Samsung Odessy + headset. Yes, Its only an hour long. But it is so, so, so beautiful. I felt relaxed and excited like i haven't felt in ages after playing this game. Yes, its simple. Its short. It reads like a childrens book. But there was a magic in this title where I just couldnt handle it - I cried a little. Thankyou so much to the DEV's for putting together this masterpiece.

[i]Note: This review was written after a VR playthrough of Luna[/i] Between the papercraft textures and cozy voice work Luna feels like waking up in a child’s pop-up book. An accessible VR experience with very light puzzle elements, your interaction with the environment helps dinky Bird remember their way home. My favourite recurring ‘puzzle’ was placing greenery on desolate land to return wildlife. There was something delightful about putting trees on a tiny diorama and later seeing that same tree’s proportions at human size. I’d love to see more of this in kind of thing in VR, maybe a city-building game? I digress... Luna’s only an hour long, but my main criticism is it doesn’t make for a particularly variety filled hour; it definitely felt like I’d seen everything it had to offer at the 40 minute mark. For this reason I wouldn’t recommend it at full cost, but at the sale price of £1.13 it is worth your time and attention.

REVIEWING VR VERSION (Played on META QUEST 2) A simple and contemplative story with light puzzle elements. I bought it for the soothing and relaxing VR experience and enchanting art style. It is good to play it seated and enjoy the poetic narratives for unwinding after a busy day. Pros: - Adorable characters - Simple and relaxing VR experience - Soothing sound - Good voice acting Cons: - Too short gameplay (less than 1 hour) - Lack of replaybility - Not recommended at full cost (though I did)

REVIEWING PC VERSION Luna is a really specific piece when taken from the point of view of the PC gamer. It's a game made out of poetry. Because of it, writing of this review wasn't simple. Read further to find out more - TL;DR and conclusion at the very end. When I was buying this game, there were plenty of reviews concerning the VR version of it but I didn't find any review about the PC version. Therefore, I made a flip-a-coin decision after which I decided to buy the game, even though there were some cons speaking against the purchase: short story, repetitiveness, lack of replaybility, lack of challenge plus no VR experience for which it was made previously and actually no "easter-eggs" or special game concepts in PC version. The price of 10,5 Euros could have been also taken into account by some gamers but when it comes to independent developers, I close my eyes and just buy it. The game itself is a complete dream, poetry made into the game. It's just a contemplative piece, although there isn't even a single word spoken. The story's still heartmoving somehow as you are playing as the Bird (Nightingale?) finding his way home. The quests are made as puzzle which may be easily solved on the computer. However, cons stated in previous paragraphs still count. Therefore I recommend every PC player to think the purchase twice. The player must know he's a poet in his heart and he didn't come to play this game but to have an aesthetic experience with some interaction. For better experience, it's good to play the game in the evening or during the night which actually helps to achieve the contemplative feeling effectively. If you just want to have solid gameplay experience and aren't interested in poetry of the game at all, just don't buy it (for PC, VR experience may be different but I can't have an opinion on that now). TL;DR (REVIEWING PC VERSION) Pros: +aesthetic experience (but reduced because of NO VR) +heartmoving story of the Bird when finding his way home +interesting game concept and environments (may be added) +independent developers Cons: -lack of replaybility -quest-repetitiveness -short gameplay (may be added) - price As you see, it's very hard to make a conclusion from equal number of pluses and minuses. Nevertheless, personally I recommend this game but only to those who are poets somehow, as I stated before and I still think there may be some poet PC gamers which may be disappointed by the game. Other types of gamers will probably dislike the game as a whole.

[h1]Luna[/h1] Luna is a wonderful story about the moon a bird, an Owl and other animals. The game plays well with out VR, but the mouse is a bit slower with its movements. Its a short game, and easy achievement 100%er. Game is very pretty and great for the children of all ages ;D. I did have trouble getting last achievement, but with patience and searching internet, I managed to get last achievement. I share in my screenshot for anyone who wants a little help, and I hope it does help. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2073284617 The game is at a great price at the moment at 90% off this sale wont last enjoy....

I bought this based on the personnel connection to Journey (my second favourite game of all time). It is a charming slow and simple VR experience that is a lovely game world to be in. While I very much liked it, when you have played the first of the levels, you have experienced what most of the other levels are like, there is a lot of cut'n'paste with slight changes in assets. It feels like the basis of a great game, but the dev team didn't have the confidence or budget to explore it further. As it stands it is expensive for what you get with maybe about 2 hours gameplay (ignore the time played on my account, I launched it from Rift and Steam doesn't track that properly), but it is something I will dip into again when I want to relax or to demo to people. Pro's: Graphics are beautiful and charming Audio adds to the magic nicely Cons: Too short, cut'n'paste gameplay loop used to try to pad it out into a game Gameplay not fleshed out enough