final m00n – Defender of the Cubes
final m00n is a horizontal bidirectional 2.75D shooter like no other before!
A space shooter a million years ahead of our time.
Get ready for an experience like you’ve never had before! Combine strategic thinking, quick reaction, and making decisions about life and death.
KEY ELEMENTS
- Influence time in different ways. Use your protective sphere. Try to combine everything that this bleak environment gives you to escape the aliens once more.
- Protect (& heal) your three cubes & your own ship & if you can & the price does not seem too high, save a few survivors …
- This is not a simple shoot ’em up. It is a strategic experience with countless ideas, types of action & decisions that you have to make.
- Survive the deadliest & most unreal environments in an apocalyptic future scenario that has never been seen before.
- Save the last of your species and sacrifice precious resources or endure your moral conflicts by leaving them to their fate to save your own skin …
- More than 20 Levels with hours over hours full of fun and thrilling gameplay filled with secrets awaiting to be discovered, levels are never the same and opponents and surivors always have random behaviour patterns.
- A detailed tutorial that gives you a step by step walkthrough of what has changed in over a million years, and what you need to understand to find a way to survive.
- Choose between three different spaceships with different characteristics (such as speed, nimbleness, turn-speed, destructive capacity, weapon energy storage, protection, “TimeSc0pe”, and “Spheres”) that make your journey a different challenge every time.
- Use the different difficulty-settings & game-modes like:
- The “Hardcore Mode” that leaves the cubes and their protection up to you and your healing skills for the whole journey.
- The “arcade mode” that takes you back to the good old days before 1980. There are no “Save-Games” here, no holding hands and no Easy-Mode, here you really need “skill” to achieve something …
- And if you reach it: The final m00n!
- One last,endless m00n. A challenge that never ends …
Background
What happens, if, in more than a million years, the last humans have to fight for their survival. Uninhabitable planets and a far superiour alien race from which they hide on m00ns. Your only chance at survival is to protect the three devices that make your m00n inhabitable. Cube alpha gives energy, cube beta gives food, cube gamma gives oxygen. If you lose one, you lose your life…
The last humans, forced by the uninhabitable environments of the planets, commute from m00n to m00n.
Is it time for you to die too? Like all the other millions of humans, their nameless bodies still aimlessly floating through space…
… where once upon a time was the earth – and now only a few rock chunks.
And what if…
- What if… you could slow down time itself?
- What if… you could nearly stop the time, for the whole galaxy but not for you?
- What if… you could generate a “Sphere” which stay in place for a short while and protects everything in it …
And what if you could combine all these things?
- Can you be everywhere at the same time?
- Can two simultaneous points be protected at the same time?
- Can you overtake your own laser?
And by the way: how relative is “short” if you can manipulate time?
In final m00n, with the art of manipulating time, this and much more becomes possible.
Could you survive and reach final m00n?
In one way or another – One m00n will be your final m00n.
And never forget:
- You are not alone. The “highest form of life” is never far
- Her technique, her thinking and her entire civilization are a million years ahead of you.
- And you will not be undetected for a long time even on the smallest of m00ns…
Are you up to it? Can you reach the final m00n..?
Oh, and if you meet a survivor: Think better of you and your survival.
Believe me- don’t try to be a hero!
Game Discussion
Steam User 29
Even though these kinds of games are not really my thing, Final M00n - Defender of the Cubes managed to surprise me in a very positive way. I actually liked it a lot!
There is not anything bad to say about this game, even the music is absolutely fantastic. Highly recommended.
Steam User 6
This game is more than an old school REMAKE.
It's an respectful homage to Eugene Jarvis and Larry DeMar, the developers of Williams Defender (1981), and also to Dave Theurer and Rob Fulop, who developed Missile Command for Atari in 1980.
final m00n takes up the topic of bidirectional horizontal scrollers and transforms it with countless innovations and incredible richness of detail, as well as a dark end-time mood; into a game that is undeniably a gem in this genre.
The soundtrack is so fitting and is undoubtedly a million years ahead of any other game soundtrack.
Steam User 14
Fulfilled my every expectation and surpassed literary everything I have ever dreamed of about a modern 21st Century "take" on the bygone 1980 classic Williams Defender. final m00n pushes the boundaries set by Defender and breaks the mould with many refreshing new ideas, perspectives and aesthetics bringing to the fray both something different and something very unique.
This review is kept simple, with no game play spoilers (it is best for you to discover these for yourself) and just my appraisal. The game is graphically astounding and the overall presentation polished as the most precious of stones, the diamond and likewise is well worth the asking price. The music is original, retro and yet futuristic at the same time and fits in perfectly with each m00n. Wow. There is also an electronic lady who pops up on occasion to inform the player of new threats of ship status which in my opinion adds more depth to the game. There are many many more things for you to discover so in conclusion:t his is what games are about; finding something intriguing during the earliest stages (Steam Greenlight) of development, the agonising wait and finally the wait ends and the game is released. I am not disappointed in any manner. Defender will always be my favourite arcade game of all time and final m00n is a dream come true for those myself and others who love pure retro game with seriously souped up graphics and a magnificent soundtrack. 9.5 out of 10 - pretty much near perfect retro gaming heaven. A very special THANK YOU goes to the developer Frank Gallinsky who has put his heart and soul into this project for bringing to the market a unique and visually stunning shoot 'em up that plays like a dream and makes you come back for "one more go" on a continuous basis. final m00n Defender of the Cubes will remain indefinitely on my sold state drive.
Steam User 9
This game is indescribable ... stunning
The graphics are awesome.
The End Times backstory and probably a real look into our future is more than just bleak.
It's perhaps the most complex shoot 'em up that has ever been.
So do not try to play this games before you do the (very detailed) complete tutorial!
It is divided into 7 parts and explains things like: TimeScope, GalaxyTime, TimeTunnel, Critical Hit-Points“ The Sphere, Cubes & Cube-Healing, Bases, Landing & Rescue Survivors“ „The very complex HUD“ and some more.
If you lack this knowledge, you will fly around aimlessly…
- The tutorial is very time consuming and often only text - rarely interactive.
- I would think a „in game tutorial" would be better.
+ Tutorial 7 (Rescue Humans) is not just a tutorial. It is the breathtaking story, how it came to the end of Human Civilization.
Overall: This shoot 'em up is the most imaginative & most unusual shmup I've ever seen. It seems a bit like an adventure...
Steam User 4
I like tower defense games and I liked the futuristic game art, sound effects and music. Some parts of futuristic art I took as a wallpaper for my computer because I liked it.
This is a Defender game along with the Missile Command parts gameplay mixing the two styles and I liked that in gamplay. The game has time manipulation and the movement of the ship where you can use your aim to hit enemies in their vulnerabilities.
I recommend this game.
Steam User 4
Game review for final Moon
This game is super duper cheap!
When you can get >1hour fun out of it, it's well worth the investment.
The ingame soundtrack is very nice for me. When you like electro / techno it could be very nice for you too.
At first you should do the tutorial, even when it takes some time and even whe you are a hardcore pro gamer,
without it you can easy miss fun, or even success, because game is not really easy (in higher levels).
The visuals are nicely done, controls are not so complicated to learn, even when you play on keyboard like me (no X cube controller)
Here is a video of gameplay from Dev on youtube
Steam User 7
Final m00n is an awesome game: it mixes old-school arcade spirit with modern graphics. I strongly recommend it!