There are a lot of great elements to the game. Sexy woman? Creepy Crone? MOM issues at their finestвЂ¦ It also gives the player a chance to find out about the characters family and claiming вЂњMother issuesвЂќ barely covers it! (I mean, the initals of this game is: MOM, so should I have expected any less?!) (Now IвЂ™m in familiar territory!) This opens the door for you to explore the main characters past through flashback sequences in his own basement or his therapists office. Periodically, you find yourself in a dream state as The Dreamer awakens. He and the base commander Wilcox are always a step ahead and canвЂ™t wait for you to catch up because Martian storms are causing problems and a botany experiement has gone horribly wrong. The story is driven forward by your communication with a colleague, Declan, on the other end of the comms unit. Luckily all this begins to change within the first 30 minutes of the game. This is rectified when the dream is revealed and now the character starts going about his actual activitiesвЂ¦ which then felt stagnant. It has the unnerving quality that ropes me in but I felt I had no chance to get aquainted with the surroundings. As the player, I suspected it was a dream because the action began a little too quicky. A tentacle slithers out of view like a particularly shy snake and flashes of what looks like a person are seen in the distance. The story opens with the lead character, Shane Newehart, living on Mars performing tasks but things are going pear shaped from the start. The only вЂњweaponвЂќ that we ever get is a crowbar and that is used very sparingly. Well, I was expecting a first person perspective, but with that, I expected weapons, even if this werenвЂ™t a shooter. So how does a game fare when giving the player a chance to partake in such a vast world? Even the nearest Lovecraftian horror to find any form of commercial success these days comes from Sandra Bullock overcoming a cosmic horror in Birdbox and even that has a semi-happy ending. Stories that they canвЂ™t make into movies because movies have to appeal to an audience that ultimately want to see the вЂњgood guys come out on topвЂќ. This is the existential dread that shows up on everything Lovecraftian that cosmic level threat that is so vast, we are but microbes to it.

Described as a вЂњfirst-person, story driven cosmic horror gameвЂќ, it promised my favorite form of terror: Lovecraftian Psychological dread. On October 22nd, I saw what I had my eye on: Rock Pocket Games Moons of MadnessВ had been released. Steam,В as many of you know, is my gaming platform of choice. I was starting to cast my eyes over some old favorites that have never made it to the Junkyard but what I wanted was something new вЂ¦ and Steam did not let me down. As October trundled onward, things were looking iffy for a newВ subject for my Halloween post.

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