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Dark Moon
Developer Jujubee S.A.
Dark Moon is a survival strategy game where in order to survive you must avoid the Sun’s scorching rays and embrace the darkness. Gather resources, upgrade your mobile base, make tough moral decisions, but most importantly - don’t go into the light! From the Steam store page
169 reactions from 3 sources (Bluesky, Steam reviews, Mastodon) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
52
Mixed
35 positive · 32 negative
95% range 40–64%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bluesky * | 30 | 3 | 67 |
| Steam reviews | 35 | 32 | 0 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Mixed
39 of 71 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
53% recommend · 35 yes, 31 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 66 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Mixed (75 of 162 positive).
Players praise the game's unique concept of a mobile base and survival-strategy gameplay. [1][2][3] Many reviewers report that the game is buggy and feels unfinished. [4][5][6] Some players enjoy the atmosphere and crew management despite technical issues. [7][8][9]
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- [4]
Oh boy… where to start? This game is alpha at best. The core idea is genuinely intriguing — I love Frostpunk-esque base-building and survival games — but the execution is rough, and the bugs are so glaring that I seriously doubt any proper playtesting was done. Major Bugs Disabling the tutorial disables research entirely. Severe pathfinding issues for both drones and spiders. Moon buildings get stuck at 100% …
- [11]
Do not buy it. The concept and game is good but infested with show stopper and critical bugs which not resolved. - Common issue: Control panels might stuck in open state. No way to close them or interact with them. An they overlaps other control panels. This stuck panels even visible when you reloads or leaves game to main menu. Workaround: close the game. - Show stopper bug: save and load game will eventually …
- [1]
If you enjoy strategy games with survival elements—where, in addition to building and managing, you also have to react to changing conditions and make decisions that have consequences—"Dark Moon" will be a great choice for you. Fans of sci-fi themes and unusual survival environments (in this case: the Moon, the Sun as the enemy) will also find something for themselves here. The "Mechaplex" mobile base mechanic is a …
- [10]
Dark Moon has been a fantastic surprise. It nails that survival‑strategy loop where every decision matters, every resource counts, and every run teaches you something new. The tension is constant but never frustrating, and the sense of progression keeps pulling you back in. The atmosphere is great, the mechanics feel tight, and the game already has a solid foundation. What excites me most is seeing how it evolves …
- [2]
A city that walks? Yes. A city that runs from the sun? Even better. This new take on “city building” is fantastic
Summarised from 34 of the 160 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 13, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
The crowd is split on Dark Moon: 35 recommend it, 31 don't. Which camp are you in?
Reactions
60 of 169 · most liked firstWriting is terrible, UI is jank, premise and setting are OK, hard timer on everything you do. Tutorial and notifications are too overbearing. Overall, I think this game could use more time in the oven; hopefully these issues will get rectified.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rockman World 5 / Mega Man 5 (Game Boy) - Stardroids and Dark Moon artwork.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh boy… where to start? This game is alpha at best. The core idea is genuinely intriguing — I love Frostpunk-esque base-building and survival games — but the execution is rough, and the bugs are so glaring that I seriously doubt any proper playtesting was done. Major Bugs Disabling the tutorial disables research entirely. Severe pathfinding issues for both drones and spiders. Moon buildings get stuck at 100% progress when storage is full — you have to dismantle and rebuild them. Buildings not…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Didn’t do the cliche “here’s the stuff I got for Xmas” tweet yet so here! - Dark Moon Greatsword (Came in earlier this week as shown) - Starscourge Greatsword (Foam and now I have 2 like in game) - Sandland (PS5) - Metaphor ReFantazio (PS5) - GoT style mask Cheers 🍻
neutral · AI labelView post →Clunky UI, intermittent audio drop-out, intermittent loss of UI elements (Specifically resource node indicators), very rail-roady and whilst the premise is interesting the execution leaves something to desire. If you don't complete a story segment quickly enough you soft-lock yourself to lose the game since there's no way to escape the sun other than completing objectives. I was looking forward to this game but was left disappointed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dont bother, the concept is great, but the game is unfinished, achievements for completing the game is only 0,2% (of all players), lots of game breaking bugs, and devs abandoned it, no updates or any info for months...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you enjoy strategy games with survival elements—where, in addition to building and managing, you also have to react to changing conditions and make decisions that have consequences—"Dark Moon" will be a great choice for you. Fans of sci-fi themes and unusual survival environments (in this case: the Moon, the Sun as the enemy) will also find something for themselves here. The "Mechaplex" mobile base mechanic is a really good idea: we don't sit still, but constantly move, expand, and plan our…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its basic and full of bugs. I keep having to reload because drones randomly spawn outside the usable map and I cant click on them so I cant proceed. Has potential but not anywhere near realized. Ixion is an example of the level of polish this game should strive for, and it falls far short.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do not buy it. The concept and game is good but infested with show stopper and critical bugs which not resolved. - Common issue: Control panels might stuck in open state. No way to close them or interact with them. An they overlaps other control panels. This stuck panels even visible when you reloads or leaves game to main menu. Workaround: close the game. - Show stopper bug: save and load game will eventually remove your drones. Which can lead that you end up without any drone and no…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has a great potential, it's similer to IXION and frostpunk, but it needs a graphics enhancements. Moreover, the game has a lot of bugs to be addressed, suddenly, all spiders have a speed of a negative value like -22, -37, I could not build an Energy Plant because of electromagnet field, so basically, I couldn't move my spiders and couldn't build anything. Not recommended unless they fix those issues. Regarding the gameplay, I spent more than 80% of time healing crew members, come on!…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Clearly an unfinished game, full of bugs (some of which halt progress permanently), weird UI issues, and terrible story interludes. Even worse, the developers are nowhere to be seen despite recently launching the game. I refunded it gladly.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A city that walks? Yes. A city that runs from the sun? Even better. This new take on “city building” is fantastic
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some games I got recently! 🎮 Saw both Crash games at my local retro games stand, and Luigi's Mansion 2 HD at the "newer" games stand here (It is a used game though). I've played very little of CNK and liked it, I haven't played any of CTTR so that's new for me. Excited to play Dark Moon in HD too 😊
positive · AI labelView post →Today’s Video Game Plush of the Day is: Polterpup from the 2013 Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon set by San-ei
neutral · AI labelView post →Last night's #boardgames included Dark Moon and Sushi Go, both new to me. Dark Moon is a somewhat complicated hidden traitors game. I was one traitor out of two, and gave away my wicked intentions fairly early. But I did enough damage in the process, and my […] [Original post on mastodon.world]
neutral · AI labelView post →Random Game of the Day Day 648 - Luigi's Mansion 3 Not as bad as 2/Dark Moon, but still not as good as 1. This game introduced the Gooigie mechanic and gave us some backtracking, but overall still a pretty linear game and not that creepy Any fans of this one?
neutral · AI labelView post →you can really feel how long a distance there is between the first game and Dark Moon as well in the way it has to have a world that's made up with a bunch of themed chunks of land stuck together
neutral · AI labelView post →Before writing this review, I double checked to see if this game was released as Early Access and even then it would had been hard to give this a thumbs up since there's a lot of issues which were part of the old demo and has not been fixed. Bugs include but are not limited to - Inconsistent pathing, I've had drones 'boogy woogie' through the terrain far enough that their travel back to pack up became 1 hour instead of a few minutes because they somehow wiggled up onto a cliff through the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is unplayable. Never get time to do what you need. replacing buildings that just vanish is ridiculous. would watch the crew asphixiate again.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You really did not need to use AI to write the dialogue. Even if it wasn't ai... I'm sorry, the dialogues are just really bad. Aside from that, the UI design is terrible, the gameplay designers think that more "features" (stupid little things to tinker with even when they're meaningless) = always better, the tutorial is confusing and frankly boring. The concept is great, the execution fell on its face. The game is really pretty though.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nice concept. It could be a good game. But we are over six months after release and game still is full of glitches and performance issues. I literally restarted the campaign 3 times trying to make it work, but after a few hours in, performance is unbearable. I lost hopes to see it fixed anytime soon. I avoid putting negative reviews, I think this is my first one. But I do feel I had 20 hours wasted trying to make it work.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mix of Frost Punk and This war of mine. +nice random events which reminds of Frost Punk/This war of mine +tutorial helps in getting to know the whole UI and gameplay +seems to be complex and not as easy -UI sometimes is pretty clunky and oldschool, especially on 4k screen ...for the first glance, I need to play more though :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Something I miss about the first Luigi's Mansion game (and bits/pieces of Dark Moon) is that the rooms felt like actual places that would be there. You were exploring like bedrooms and stuff, not "random medieval floor because fuck you."
neutral · AI labelView post →Played this game for 2 hours and I liked the game but at soon as the beginning ends, it takes 95% of my cpu to run and it starts lagging so much that its not fun to play anymore. Great story plot and gameplay but its systems needs to be fixed or better optimizing
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like the premise, but it needs some time in the oven. It is needlessly difficult as some basic functions require the player to just wait, while there is a hard timer. This timer makes it hard to learn what you are doing wrong or fiddle with buildings as the whole game seems to constantly force you to keep moving. After 8 hours I have made it around the moon 1 time, and effectively gave up as I made a mistake in not building enough harvesters, thus it takes forever to gather supplies. See the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoyed the automatic collection of minerals by drones, which makes resource gathering smooth and satisfying. The decision-making system is engaging, forcing you to carefully consider every choice. On top of that, the system for moving ships between locations on the Moon adds a strategic layer that keeps you constantly thinking ahead.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Polish? Yeah glitches, poorly worded instructions, I'd say this game suffers from translation with wording being awkwardly formated. Fun so far though and solid tip get the production +2 trust me it makes the game so much easier to manage. Great for people that enjoyed frost punk with city management and survival or rimworld. If you have all your browsers and stuff set to dark theme you'll enjoy the lack of harsh light in your face. 5/10 will raise my review when i dont have to deleat stuck…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The idea behind this game is pretty good, but the execution was just horrible. Bugs, performance issues, design flaws. It's more EA than release ready.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is an early review for Dark Moon. I like the game. I got it for an introductory price of $15 which I think is fair. I think the game could use a little bit more polish. There is something a little off and sometimes things feel a little janky. Sometimes its the dialogue, sometimes its the menu or lack of tooltips. Like after I do a scan and I see the resource, I'd like to have a tooltip to identify the resource in question, rather than trying to match the icon to figure out what I'm…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's... so promising, and so frustrating. Pathfinding issues, saving issues, "all the resource nodes are in the air and all my harvesters are stuck trying to reach them" issues. If it wasn't for the bugs, this might be something great, but at this time, it's just too fraught to invest time in.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is "Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon" "That Part"...is the ice boss.
neutral · AI labelView post →Dark Moon has been a fantastic surprise. It nails that survival‑strategy loop where every decision matters, every resource counts, and every run teaches you something new. The tension is constant but never frustrating, and the sense of progression keeps pulling you back in. The atmosphere is great, the mechanics feel tight, and the game already has a solid foundation. What excites me most is seeing how it evolves there’s so much potential here. The current version already delivers a ton of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An hour in and all I've done is go to a place, read some text, go to another place, and read more text. I haven't survived. I've barely explored. I've made no decisions about anything. The execution of this idea is so horrible. We didn't need any story whatsoever past the setup. Yet that is what the focus has been with near zero gameplay.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like the way you gain more walkers, which feels a bit like Homeworld: Deserts of Kharak. It gives a satisfying sense of progression and scale. That said, the maps feel a bit small, and I’m curious about the walkers’ movement — are they truly walking across the map, or do they lift off the ground when traveling? If they fly, I’d love to see a take-off animation, as it would add even more immersion and visual flair.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What’s your favourite game from every Nintendo console you’ve owned Game Boy/Color: Mario Golf SNES: Donkey Kong Country 2 N64: Banjo-Kazooie GBA: Metroid Zero Mission 3DS: Luigi’s Mansion Dark Moon Switch: too many non-Nintendo games could make this list. Switch 2: slim pickings so… DK Bananza
positive · AI labelView post →I’m really into games with a retro vibe and some good sci-fi setting and this one caught me by surprise. Honestly something different and really stands out from most games. An awesome universe that’s dark but also super engaging. The music adds A LOT to the atmosphere (kudos to the composer!) and since you’re basically stuck in the dark most of the time it’s extra cool to play with the lights off and blinds down. The idea of mobile bases is a great concept, can’t wait to see how that develops…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unusual Dark Moon forecasted for tonight's game #indiegame #gamedev
neutral · AI labelView post →not finished yet full of bugs and a lot of tips are missing
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The idea behind this game is pretty good, but the execution was just horrible. The basic premises of the game is that you're controlling a spider bot to walk across the moon to outrun a solar disaster. The game is real-time with pause, with resource gathering and building happening in real time - which isn't a problem in itself, but there's two issues: somehow, while the spiderbot is moving (whether this is in a map or on the moon) nobody can work in buildings (even though you can LIVE in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →...........And evidentally I had like 4 games....... and thats it. I had A Link Between Worlds, Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon, Super Mario Bros, and Zelda Phantom Tracks so like game recs would be appreciated lol
neutral · AI labelView post →Updated Game Trailer of Eldread: horrors of a Dark Moon #roguelite #horrorgames #pointandclick
neutral · AI labelView post →As of now the latest game I added to my list was Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, so i've still got plenty more to add and brainstorm. Why is "Every" in quotes? Simple because there are definitely games i'm leaving out of this. For example, every Adobe Flash Game, all the non-digital arcade games (3/9)
neutral · AI labelView post →Loved this game, glad I finally got around to it! Luigi’s Mansion 2 HD / Dark Moon 👻
positive · AI labelView post →They have cleaned up a lot of the glitches as far as I can tell as I didn't encounter a single one so far. I'm still gonna give the game a thumbs down as its just kinda mid. Nothing exciting, nothing special. I find the worker relationship system confusing not really sure if I can even influence it. The game overall feels kinda aim less I kept wondering around the moon but never really knew where to go. The little mining drones are annoying as you can't micro manage what they are mining easily.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am disappointed by too many crashes. Waiting for an update to be able to play the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to give it thumbs up. But then, all negative review were correct.. I cannot play it. My crew will run out of oxygen, no matter how much I reload saved games and try different step, but still, they will die..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a frustration simulator
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game starts slowly, carefully explaining each function with clear tutorial videos. Then you’re introduced to choices and crew management. The opening hour is essentially an extended tutorial with lore. It’s an old-school strategy-management game that reminds me of the first Fallout. After that, the game lets you go on your own: objectives are described vaguely, and the path to them is entirely up to you. You can focus on gathering resources, exploring new sites, and making lots of decisions…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The concept of a moving home base, combined with crew management and resource gathering, is incredibly fun. It keeps you constantly engaged and thinking strategically.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like since Engages release we have had the Mario Movie, Super Mario Wonder, Princess Peach Showtime, Dark Moon port, Mario Party Jamboree, like every single Mario RPG coming back in the span of a year, MK World, Dk Bananza and have ttthe galaxy ports and new Yoshi game to look forward to.
neutral · AI labelView post →3DS THURSDAY!!! Game: Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon Developer: Next Level Games First Released: March 20, 2013
neutral · AI labelView post →Random Game of the Day Day 197 - Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon Was not a fan of this game. I LOVE LM1, but this one took away the creep factor and the RE style exploration in exchange for mission based gameplay like you were playing a linear 3D Mario title. I finished it but not planning on replaying
negative · AI labelView post →I'm going to get dragged to hell for saying this but Luigis Mansion: Dark Moon is the best game in the seRAAAAGGHHH- OH GAOD MY BONNEESS
positive · AI labelView post →340. Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon Now here's a game I think gets way too much hate. Yes, the mission structure is pretty bad. Yes, it has maybe the worst boss in any Nintendo game. But I think the overall gameplay and creative mansion designs make up for it. Not as good as 1 & 3, but good. #365Games
neutral · AI labelView post →This game is good. Yes, there are a few quirks and understanding what's going on isn't always trivial. The game is pretty hard and that’s what makes it fun. Put some work into figuring the game out and it will be rewarding.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've never actually played Luigi's Mansion 3. I've played the first game and Dark Moon on 3DS, but never really bothered with the 3rd game on Switch. Is it worth trying out?
neutral · AI labelView post →Dark Moon? ✅ Atmosphere? ✅ Resource farming? ✅ Crew management? ✅ Moving base like spider? ✅ Sun? RUN!!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Had only few minutes to play, but so far it looks much better than expected. With this price seems like really worth it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The atmosphere is fantastic, and I loved the simplicity of the UI — it never feels overwhelming, even with everything going on. I really enjoyed how involved you get with your crew members, from diagnosing medical issues to performing amputations, and even helping them recover by crafting a new hand. That level of care and detail is just awesome.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game shines with its complexity, from managing resources and your crew to making hard choices that actually matter. Every decision feels weighty, and the stakes are real. On top of that, the drones and ambient sounds create a perfectly eerie, immersive atmosphere that makes the lonely Moon feel alive… and dangerous. It’s a survival experience that’s as thoughtful as it is tense.
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