Moons of Madness
A mysterious signal has been recorded coming from the red planet. The message confounded Orochi scientists. Their analysts broke it down and determined it was of intelligent origin. Orochi management immediately concluded that the discovery was too sensitive for public knowledge and moved to keep it hidden. In secret, the corporation began construction of Trailblazer Alpha, a state-of-the-art Mars research outpost designed to identify the true nature of the message. You are Shane Newehart, an engineer stationed at Trailblazer Alpha and your security clearance means you are completely unaware of the existence of the mysterious signal. Your job is simply to keep the lights on until the transport ship Cyrano arrives bringing with it a new team to take over your duties. Soon you discover strange and unusual setbacks. Crucial systems are malfunctioning, the greenhouse is filled with a strange mist and the rest of your team has yet to return from their EVA mission. Things are starting to fall apart. You begin seeing and hearing things that aren’t there. Visions, hallucinations – or is that even what it is? Is this real… or are you slowly descending into madness?
Game Discussion
Steam User 9
I truly enjoyed playing through this. The environment and game play is so fun and the feel of being on Mars hits differently. Give it a go for sure
Steam User 6
This is one of these games where a -neutral- review would be appropriate.
Its not bad enough to justify a negative rating, but also not enough good ideas or gameplay for me to blindly recommend it to others.
Pretty forgettable in summary.
Its a walking sim with a okayish story, but it is missing a lot of tension and suspension despitebeing a horror game and puzzles are pretty unintuitive or just very uninteresting.
Most mechanics also come up once or twice then never get used again, also there are no real rewards for creative thinking or exploration.
If you can get it on sale for 5 bucks or less, you can check it out, but you won‘t miss out if you skip this one.
Steam User 6
I've never had a monster during a chase sequence in a horror game stop and wait for me to go the right way before continuing to chase me.
Steam User 5
Solid entry in the Cosmic Horror genre. Your character is voiced, and talks to a couple other people through out the game, as well as talking to himself to kind of guide you along. There are some good scares and tense moments. There are 2 endings, and i liked both of them.
If you are into cosmic horror or Lovecraft, give this game a shot. It isn't a long game, so i would recomend getting it on sale.
Steam User 4
When it comes to walking horror simulators Moons of Madness lands right smack dead center in cosmic horror next to the likes of Conarium, only in difference being an outer space stealth, puzzler, interactive horror flick. It's not an easy game, it's not outrageously difficult either. You'll come across a few centrifuge puzzles the second of which you may bash your brains out trying to figure out. I didn't look up any guides, I just bore with it, sat there and figured it all out.
All in all it was alright, I had some fun. It's pretty decent. I didn't get caught up reading all the in-game materials, after spending a few hours playing the game I told myself hell no I'm not reading all that stuff. Glad I didn't cause by the end of the game I was ready for it to be over with, not a good or bad thing. It didn't last too too long. You can do much worse, trust me.
Steam User 3
Nice horror game. Finishable in under 8 hours. Takes about halfway till you realize what type of horror it atually is (well, if you don't read any walkthroughs or reviews). Worth the money.
Steam User 2
Quite a good start, the story gradually builds up, but later to the point where you easily get lost, unless you read all the notes in detail, it won't make sense to you later.
Puzzles, some good, but most poorly designed.
Overall terrible level design, which almost made me quit the game a few times.
Performance drop in certain parts, from 144 fps to 80, while the hardware was far from 100%.
6/10, buy it on sale.