Moons of Darsalon gets console ports in 2025

Moons of Darsalon

Publisher Astrolabe Games, and publisher and developer Dr. Kucho! Games have announced console ports for Moons of Darsalon, their classically-inspired platforming action game.

Moons of Darsalon is coming to Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PS4, and PS5 on February 6th, 2025. The classic action-platformer was released for PC (via Steam) back in April 2023.

Here’s a rundown on the game, plus a new trailer:

Teams of darsanauts got lost during their mining missions on the different moons of the planet Darsalon. You need to complete several rescue missions in which you will have to lead them to the closest base station.

They will use their own AI to follow you and to obey your commands. On your way to the base you will have to protect them from dangers and enemies using your laser gun, jet pack, pilot ground and air vehicles, destroy terrain, and even make new paths with the ground maker gun.

Features:

  • Advanced platformer AI including dynamic terrain detection, jump force calculation, light sensitivity, inter-NPC communication.
  • Voice Commands to control companion NPCs.
  • Dynamic ground destruction and creation.
  • Full Interactive and realistic Liquid physics.
  • Realistic off road vehicle physics.
  • 8 bit music based on MOS 6581 (SID) chip from 1982.
  • 8 bit speech synthesis.
  • Unique render pipeline that combines modern lightning, 2D sprites and 3D models pixelated in real time consistently and with a restricted color palette for an authentic retro feel.
  • CRT filter.

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