Guide your friends through hostile planets and save the day in this retro space adventure.
Moons of Darsalon is a charming “save them all” retro platformer, where players guide teams of astronauts through dangerous planets filled with threats and platforming challenges.
The game sticks pretty closely to its influences in both art style and music, only giving itself away due to its smooth modern controls. Anyone seeing Moons of Darsalon in motion would have a hard time differentiating it from a real Commodore 64 title.
Moons of Darsalon is available on Microsoft Windows (through Steam), and it set to release February 6, 2025 for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S, and Xbox One.
You can read more about the game and watch its trailer below:
Retro action “save-them-all” platformer including advanced physics combined with an unique retro feel. Complete rescue missions leading your colleagues to the closest base station. Fight enemies using your laser gun, jet pack, destroy terrain and even make new paths with the ground maker.
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.
Featuring:
– 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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