Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.
It's at its lowest recorded price, $3.99.
- Story and characters: 67 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 53 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 39 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 14 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 345 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 224 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Even brief cutscenes, animated with a smoothness that echoes the genre’s origins, help stitch the story together with flair.
I always thought games like Flashback and Another World were extremely immersive experiences, sure we remember them for their platforming momentum, but when they came out they were very unique among other games, playing them was like learning to swim by getting tossed into the ocean and figuring out everything as you go, I never had a feeling of the game watching over me, and I felt like LUNARK was holding my hand the entire time, not just from the gameplay perspective, but the narrative as well, a lot of the characters were there to provide more hints or point me to the next location, the world-building being mostly goofy, and it does not help that final boss was a forgettable character.
The Cinematic platformer was a style of 2D platform game that stood out from the pack of the era with typically rotoscoped visuals (real people videoed which were painted over), meaning they tended to look a little more realistic than the Mario and Sonic inspired titles of the time.
Now there were parts of the game where the soundtrack reminded me of Flashback and had those upbeat industrial vibes like in the original theme, but then I am fighting a boss in this game, and it has like JRPG music, it feels so odd.
The release is rock solid on Steam Deck and the game is polished right out of the gate... something many AAA studios can't seem to manage.
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Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. 2 more themes were each raised by fewer than 5 sampled reviews and are not shown.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $3.99 (−80%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.
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We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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