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MirrorMoon EP
Developer Santa Ragione
MirrorMoon EP is a 2013 video game developed and published by Santa Ragione, a studio based in Milan, Italy. It is an exploration game set in space. It is based on a 2012 game, Mirror Moon, that was developed during a game jam. The game was inspired by Noctis IV, another Italian indie game. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
201 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Sep 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
45
Mixed
86 positive · 105 negative
95% range 38–52%
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| Steam reviews | 86 | 105 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
10 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
355 of 607 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 201 · most liked firstWhen we made our systemic game MirrorMoon EP about the manipulation of systems, the play of contingency, and the brokenness of machines, you commented, “Oh, so experimental games mean Portal guns now?” It traumatised us so much we’ve been making games exclusively about Italian politics ever since
unlabelledView post →[Giveaway] I have some games to share with the world. After logging it to my old Humble Bundle account today, I've discovered I have quite a few games(and/or DLCs) I don't really care about and would like to share them with you nice people. 1st come, 1st serve rule ofc, unless you think a ruffle would be more fair (do let me know in the comments please). Edit: list was ugly and some edits Edit2: Updated platforms. Here is the list: - ~~140 [Steam]~~ - ~~AirParrot 2-Pack 2.6.2 […
unlabelledView post →Psychedelic survival horror Saturnalia now has a 40-minute demo on Steam. Saturnalia, the acclaimed survival horror from MirrorMoon EP developer Santa Ragione, is shaking off the shackles of Epic Games Store exclusivity and coming to Steam this October - and ahead of its launch, a 40-minute demo is now available on Valve's platform. Saturnalia - which Eurogamer contributor Simon Parkin called a "horrible nightmare in all the right ways" in his Recommended review last year - whisks players away…
unlabelledView post →Abstract is the perfect tag for this game. At the start I was confused and a little frustrated. After a bit, I started to figure things out and enjoyed it. I pushed more buttons, did more things, and about 3 hours later I still have no idea what I am doing. System Info & Performance Report Operating System Ubuntu Linux 18.04 x64 CPU Ryzen 5 1500x GPU GTX 1050, nvidia-410.78 Game Saves…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →From a gameplay perspective, it was often uncomfortable, unfriendly, and at times boring, confusing, and difficult. However, the vast universe, filled with stunning sights, was as beautiful as a work of art. Maybe that's just what being an astronaut is all about—enduring these challenges to behold the profound beauty of the cosmos. 우주비행사가 된 기분이야.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An experiment that is interesting and should be analyzed and talked about... but not for its quality of execution. The game offers no instructions and challenges you to learn to navigate space as well as the planets surrounding you. Even the UI is a puzzle to learn. Conquering this initial puzzle feels good. However, once you understand the game's formula, the deliberately opaque design becomes the enemy. Any breadcrumbs you find could be a new puzzle (though there are only a handful of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →MirrorMoon EP is a pensive abstract puzzle game about spatial reasoning. Side A is a short but enjoyable moon, Side B is an endless series of procedurally generated moons. This game tries to communicate as little as possible, on the theory that the fun is in experimenting and figuring it out for yourself. Unfortunately, there are several big brain ideas here that are a bit too much to communicate nonverbally, and I had to figure out by sifting through the discussion forums. For instance, my…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I greatly enjoyed The Witness, Myst, Fez, and other games where you had to figure out everything for yourself. This one though? This game is an overintellectual mess. It practically screams "Ask me what it means! Ask me what it means!" Stay as far away from this game as possible!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Part of the fun is that the Game Interface/Controls are not explained and nor are the objectives. Haha, great fun. Right? Actually it is. But while that is intriguing for awhile, once I gained a a grip on the game and what I should be trying to do, there is a huge gap between there and then going on to complete the game. Without spoiling anything, the wider universe is randomly generated and it immediately becomes a problem. So you'll just have to keep mashing buttons going to random worlds to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →MirrorMoon EP looks intriguing at first, but it quickly becomes frustrating and aimless. The lack of clear direction makes exploration feel more like wandering without purpose than discovery. Controls and mechanics aren’t explained well, which just adds to the confusion. It might appeal to a very specific audience, but it wasn’t for me at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terrible controls is a big reason for a negative review. + art style + atmosphere - controls - find the breadcrumbs and then follow it kinda game-play, kind of tedious and exhausting
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is a big difference between having some mystery to your game and just being obtuse, and unfortunately this game is just that, obtuse. It's pretty much impossible to even figure out what the puzzle is to begin with, much less figure out how to solve it, it's a game that pretty much requires a walkthrough in order to make any sense of it and frankly I don't have the time or energy to play a game where from start to finish I have to say "ok, so now what do I do?". This isn't artsy or clever…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Reading other reviews suggests that there's some kind of art piece hidden here, but I sure as hell can't see it. All I see is a field of planets already named by other players, of which visiting any results in a "puzzle" that requires you to find the exit off the planet, while under the influence of a selection of a few random handicaps and tools - the pool of which seems to be incredibly small - to try and make each world different. But what's always the same is that navigation is painful,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →MirrorMoon EP is the result of a fusion between a space exploration game, a puzzle game and an atmospheric game (yes, it’s a three-way fusion). The game has a stunning visual style; it’s both minimalist and beautiful, a real treat for the eyes. I don’t have much more to say about the game; it offers no tutorial, no clues as to what to do, and I find the puzzles difficult and not very intuitive, so I got really frustrated after a few minutes because I couldn’t make head nor tail of it. But…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the most engaging puzzle games I've played in a while, and it IS a puzzle game. I can’t fully review the game without somewhat spoiling the most powerful idea behind it, but I will avoid any specific spoilers. MirrorMoon EP was on of the few games that had me "deciphering the language". At points I actually pulled out photoshop and some screenshots to make myself a sort of map. Aside from the mechanics of the game, the art is beautiful and the soundscape is mesmerizing and fits in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The more I think about MirrorMoon EP, the harder it is to remember what I liked about it. Pretty much every major aspect of the game is broken: it's an "artsy" game that restricts your ability to look around, it's an exploration game where you spend most of your time waiting around until the ship reaches its next destination, and it's a puzzle game that involves wandering around from point A until you find point B. It also has some sort of story, I think? By far the most frustrating aspect of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕝𝕒𝕣𝕘𝕖 𝕘𝕒𝕝𝕒𝕩𝕪, 𝕒𝕝𝕥𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕘𝕙 𝕒𝕥 𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕤𝕥 𝕤𝕖𝕖𝕞𝕤 𝕤𝕦𝕡𝕖𝕣 𝕔𝕠𝕠𝕝, 𝕗𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕤 𝕗𝕝𝕒𝕥, 𝕢𝕦𝕚𝕥𝕖 𝕝𝕚𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕒𝕝𝕝𝕪 𝕀'𝕞 𝕒𝕗𝕣𝕒𝕚𝕕. Don't get me wrong, I'm a sucker for Indie Games... especially when they claim to have a premise as big as No Man's Sky's. MirrorMoon EP will, at first, sound like a great idea: it simulates your spaceship and you go exploring from planet to planet, in a vast universe all your own. The thing is, these planets contain puzzles,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Newest update just appears to be an ad for their new game. That's just sad.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I didn't get it. So the initial menu has zero explanation and took ages to work out how to even start the game. So I start the game, You shoot lasers at a moon which is also the planet you are on, which you use to hit markers to progress and also to navigate. So slowely you upgrade your gun and then....you are done? And you find yourself back on your ship, and you get to do it all over again on a new planet and sometimes the mechanics change a bit. I dunno. Its got a neat style and I admire it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I should first explain what this game is not: it isn't a space exploration game in the vein of Noctis IV, a deep puzzler, or a game with a cohesive thought-provoking narrative. What it is ends up being is slightly hard to define, and that's likely why I find it so exceptional. It creates a sense of isolation and furthermore a comfort in that isolation that I have not found in any other game. If your approach to this game is minimize the window while I wait for the next tidbit of gameplay, then…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This review is based on 100% completion and 4.8 hours of gameplay. Recommendation: Would I recommend this game? No, I wouldn’t. This definitely isn’t my kind of game, so I didn’t enjoy my time with it. Even objectively, I just don’t think it’s a good game. I’ll start with my biggest dislike: the controls. They’re clunky and frustrating, and I think that if this game had better controls and was optimised for both keyboard and controller, it would have improved the experience tenfold. One major…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No direction. No explanations of any kind. What I am meant to do? What is my overall goal? What do all the buttons mean? The controls are also quite whacky, no mouse look. I managed to complete the first planet which I think acts as a tutorial, but after that I have no idea what I am supposed to do. Some of the other planets I landed on were seemingly unable to be completed. What is even the point of just completing "randomly generated" planets with like 2 puzzle elements moved about and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the No Man's Sky of puzzle games
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I tried to enjoy this and just couldn't figure it out. Being obtuse purely for the sake of being obtuse isn't particularly fun for me. The screenshots look cool and the design was intriguing but I wasn't motivated enough to learn the very strange game play systems. The controls felt awful and it didn't feel like anything was "happening" as I went about the first hour or so of just wandering.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played for 15 minutes and I'm still not sure if I ever left the menu.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great game for boring yourself to sleep.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →4/10. I don't "get" this game. I tried, very hard, to find the gameplay or experience in it. And if it's purely artistic, it wasn't entertaining or very pleasing. This is a mess.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →When I started writing this review, I was on the fence about whether to recommend it or not. After reading my own thoughts on the game, I realized they were mostly negative. I will say that the game did keep me playing for 10 hours (enough for me to finish it and all achievements), and I don't regret purchasing it for $10. The game is unique, atmospheric and in a way, meditative, but in the end, there's just not that much there. It feels like the designer confused artsiness with actual content…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is about finding how to play the game. And that pretty much sums it up. You start off on a planet and you know how to move with WASD and thats all the game tells you. You can't move your viewpoint with the mouse and you can't strafe. Why? because "exploration" There is no tutorial except people say that there is one. You have 2 points of view on a planet and on your ship. When on your ship there is a floppy drive with a A side and a B side apparently the A side is the tutorial and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →MirrorMoon EP is an ancient game from 2013. It's a whopping 10 years old at the time of this review. The game, at least, is an almost unique premise, with gameplay very much like an incredibly shallow No Man's Sky, but without graphics, crafting, advanced procedural generation, or any of the rest of that compelling stuff that made NMS successful. Or maybe this is a bit more like Elite, but without trading, with a walking sim slapped on top. The controls and gameplay are deliberately obtuse…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has essentially three layers that I can tell, and I really like the first two. What drags this experience down for me is the third layer and why I don't recommend it. Let's begin. So there is basically no story. You have a nebulous objective. When you begin a game you will select a "season" - if you're new you should pick the most recent season as it's the one with the lowest number of previously explored mechanics. If you pick an old season there won't be much for you to do. You…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If stumbling around in the dark with no explanations, solving the same puzzle over and over while the game does its best to obscure the controls sounds like fun to you, this might be your game. Side A has a breadcrumb of a story, but even with the game deliberately getting in your way, it only takes about 20 minutes to figure out the puzzle, and the story is never seen again. Side B seems to just be subsets of the puzzle you solved in Side A, but with no story. Achievements seem to indicate…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I give it a thumbs up, but this game is not for everyone! Do not buy if you look for a story, for graphics, for videos or multiplayer. Mirrormoon EP is a cryptic puzzle game explaining nothing to the player. You have to figure out everything by yourself. If you are into these kind of games, it offers you a unique experience of space exploration. Trial and error will get you finally to the goal. If the above statement got you interested, give it a buy during a sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I expect 'artistic' games to have more artistry in them. Instead I was subjected to minimalist noise music (which admittedly fit the atmosphere) and a barren waste of a play-environment with terrible controls and no sense of purpose or direction. "Blind Stumbling - The Game" is not really my idea of fun. The novelty of the experience fades once the method is discovered, leaving only a grind of wandering in an uninteresting space until hidden objectives are completed (which amount to 'go to x…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to like this game, it has many of that I typically like in a game, Space, exploration, and puzzles. But it feels too... abstract? I enjoyed the side A tutorial? but the puzzles on the b side seemed less polished and somewhat broken. It was an interesting concept and I am sure there is an audience for it I am just not it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →MirrorMoon EP looks absolutely stunning but is so brutally opaque and unapproachable it drains any enjoyment I got out of it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The first part is really interesting, the aesthetics are really cool, the puzzles are mind bending and the atmosphere is intriguing; a really good exploratory, immersive experience. But the "second part", when the game world "opens up", is too obscure, too random, too cryptic and it turned out boring for my taste. It's not a game for everyone. Also, the controls and the UI are unconventional, so that can also be a turn down.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I cannot remember the last time I was so fed up with a game so friggin fast. Basically, this "gameplay" handicaps you by giving you horrible controls and a crappy minimap. I play LOADS of indie games, a lot of which I like, but this is just inexcusable. What's worse, is that I think I think I would like this game if I could actually MOVE like in a normal first-person perspective game. Don't bother with this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Junk game that's not worth your time nor money. It's like a D student put this together in High School and made a lot of money off us unsuspecting idiots who purchased this crap. Genius
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Completely incomprehensible. I never managed to get off the first planet despite doing, as far as I could tell, everything there is to do, but judging by the screenshots, there's nothing more interesting to find anyway. The planets in the screenshots all look exactly the same as the one I was on.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel like I have to play devil's advocate here because the game has so much criticism levied against it. It's important to realize that MirrorMoon EP isn't a game per-say, so much as it is a zen experience. It very much strikes me as something you put on and play for a while when you're in the mood for it, which admittedly even I can't really play it for extended periods of time. The game focuses fully on immersion, never telling you what anything does or even what your goal is- curiosity is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Creates fake updates as advertisements for their other games. While this game itself hasn't had an update is 6 years.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a very unique game, but definitely suited to those who enjoy exploration and experimentation. Each planet is beautiful to look at and the feature of discovering another's planet is brilliant.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very strange game indeed. Yep, it's weird, Yep, there's no instructions. But I enjoyed it!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why buy No Man's Sky when you can buy this minimalist, puzzle-based game for a far more reasonable price?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been playing for years, solo and multiplayer. dont worry about feeling confused. that's part of the puzzle
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A pretty cool game honestly, though there are some caveats. Controls will likely feel frustrating at first since you can't look around with freely like you do in most games, and directions about what to do, where to go, and how to operate things, are quite vague, though I'm pretty sure that was done intentionally. After "solving" the first planet, you'll be at a point where you can freely explore the galaxy, and this aspect is where the game shines. There are hundreds of planets available to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →sometimes it is fun to not know what you are doing
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My god, it's full of planets! Much like Outer Wilds, here is a true space exploration game with shifting locations and mechanics and not having to be bogged down into a management sim. There's just surprise after surprise lurking around each dark side of the moon. I was sold after the KRZ cameo, there's so much visual wonder. (Reviewed on January 18, 2014, before the Steam release)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has been an anomaly that I saw on steam like, a decade ago, thought it looked neat, and never actually bought or played until just now when it went on sale for $3 and I happened to see it and got curious about it again. So... what is it, then? Well, it's a neat idea for a game that was never really gonna land for most people and frankly doesn't have enough puzzle depth to justify its abstractness, but I like the vibes and the concept enough that I'd still say it's worth poking at -…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm a fan of very artistic puzzle games so I went into this with an open mind. It's a shame then that it immediately revealed itself to be obtuse and inscrutable. I literally couldn't figure out what to do in the first puzzle of the game and it didn't take long for me to lose interest in screwing around with the few things that seemed interactable. Based on other reviews it seems I'm not missing out on much.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If No Man's Sky was a good game and came out 10 years ago. This one was ahead of its time, actual banger, very confusing at the beginning, but a very nice environment, gameplay and control system once you get the hang of all the mechanics and start travelling from planet to planet. A very relaxing game, but not for everyone, if you didn't like Death Stranding is highly probably you will dislike this game, but if you like space and planets who knows, give it a shot.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Though I understand the perspective of people who love this game, I think the mixed reception is totally fair. You can go into it ready to be confused and not expecting to have your hand held, like I did, and still not be satisfied. Side A really is cool, but to me it suggested things about Side B that ended up being mostly incorrect. I wanted to let the game speak for itself, so I didn't look at reviews or guides until after I'd spent a long time on Side B. I made a solid effort to "finish"…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game doesn't work with mouse on Windows 10 (May 2021). Impossible to even use the menu apart from starting the game. When it starts, the broken mouse input makes it impossible to play and move around.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is definitely going to be in the category of "love it" or "hate it" for most people. This is a game about figuring out what the game is, how the game works and then applying it. You need a lot of patience to get to the end credits without help and the game gives you absolutely no sign posts or hints as to how to get there. You just have to keep your eyes open and repeatedly try things to see what happens. It does lead to some frustration and it can feel a little obscure for the heck of it,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't figure this game out. I think it's a walking sim, which isn't bad, but the game is so obtuse that I got bored of banging my head against dead ends and just quit. Really wanted to like it because it's interesting and pretty, but it's just not for me.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'll admit, the entire reson I bought this game was because of your spacecraft which is just a bunch of control consoles that are floating in open space. Surprisingly, each of those screens and controls has an actual purpose which is really neat. This game is entirely atmosphere, and if you're into that sort of thing or if you just want to relax and relieve some stress, this'll be the game for you. Basically, you just travel around the galaxy in your spaceship and try to find the exit before…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mirrormoon ep really have some cool looking art style. Also got some challenging puzzles to solve. Maybe not every ones type. But i really enjoyed it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The controls are really annoying for a modern game. I love the concept and the way it makes me think and want to explore, but without better controls I just can't find myself wanting to get further into it, sadly.
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