In house, nobody can hear you scream “Oh, come on, that flashlight is utter rubbish.” Thankfully I stated that on Earth, in response to Rock Pocket Games’s slab of latest Moons Of Madness footage. It’s an honest wanting slice of sci-fi horror – a mix of Martian isolation and Lovecraft-inspired weirdness – however I actually can’t let that flashlight go. You should buy higher LED ones on Earth for a fiver. They are one way or the other able to emitting photons that journey greater than six toes. Take an prolonged take a look at the game’s opening exploration and puzzlings under, and take a look at to not get irritated like me.
I’ll allow you to watch it earlier than coming again to learn my ideas right here…
Okay, you performed? Right, so, it appears to be like like they’re going the normal horror-point-and-click journey route right here, solely in first particular person, with a garbage flashlight that I shan’t point out once more. It’s heartening that the participant within the video picks up a crowbar, however as an alternative of swinging it round like hyperactive science-monkey Gordon Freeman, they use it as a list puzzle merchandise. Another factor I discover is that there are timed home windows for reacting to radio communications. What occurs in case you ignore your annoying co-worker on the house radio? I dunno, however wish to discover out.
Beyond that, we see a number of Martian station corridors – clear and spartan, much less oppressive than those in Doom 3, however not too completely different in design. The pc screens you may work together with look related too, although the private wrist-computer used for spacey upkeep catches my eye. There’s scanning and interactions utilizing it, and I’m hoping this implies we get to do some correct high-stakes engineering as soon as all of it inevitably goes to tentacle-town. At least, being set round Mars, we most likely received’t see any Deep Ones. I hope. Fishmen can keep on Earth, thanks very a lot.
Moons Of Madness launches this Halloween (October 31st), and you’ll see a bit of extra on its official page, and on Steam.