At a glance Journey to the Savage Planet might have the air of an action or survival game, which is a fair assumption to make when seeing its first-person viewpoint and main character walking around with ray-gun in hand. And sure, this is a well we visit far too often at AusGamers, but Journey to the Savage Planet is more Metroid Prime with light combat or even Super Mario 64 than No Man's Sky.
Nothing too groundbreaking, except for the attacks breaking the ground.
Which players had to carry out as dutiful employees for several in-game days.
Floaty imprecise controls, a lack of depth, random spikes in difficulty due to bad design, random frustration, a mini-game for the sake of a mini-game, and a protagonist with the all the charisma of a shiny blue block.
In this regard the horror aspects of Moons of Madness lie squarely within the realm of forces outside of both human control and understanding.
Walk up close and you'll find that it's now seven feet tall.
Instead what we've got here is a HD misfire of a motion-control misfire from over a decade ago.
That is, jacking up prices and releasing things in limited quantities to create a false sense of scarcity.
Or should be. Beginning your journey to ultimately try and un-freeze those aboard the long-lost colonial freighter called Hope, you're set loose in the almost wild-west frontier town of Edgewater - run by well-known maker of mass-market goods, Spacer's Choice.
Many of you noobs, Shubs and Zuuls will know what it is to be roasted in the depths of a Sloar someday, I can tell you.