METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
METAL GEAR SOLID V: THE PHANTOM PAIN
Game
Game2024Published by indie.io
Moon Mystery
Developer Cosmoscouts
The Moon's haunted - and when an astronaut loses contact with Earth, the adventure begins in full. Fill up your oxygen, load up the guns, and set out on an interstellar FPS adventure across the stars, filled with puzzles, fights, exploration, and strange secrets of the universe. From the Steam store page
210 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Sep 1, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
52
Mixed
101 positive · 92 negative
95% range 45–59%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
467 of 721 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 210 · most liked firstThe store page makes it seems like you'll be able to explore all these space locations but it feels like it's super railroading and the cool space parts are in the background, not able to be interacted with. Instead you're shoved into a very bland FPS with space backdrop
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A few months ago, I wrote a tabletop roleplaying game module called Refugium Peccatorum. I wrote it in a fever dream over 2 months, during which time our heater broke (completely, straight died, requiring replacing in the middle of winter) between two snowstorms, rewritten a bunch as ideas, gameplay items, maps, etc. were changed, developed, refined, retweaked, etc. I am proud of it. It's 28 pages long, I have a lot of neat ideas, monsters, an Aztec Alligator race, and an angel and a demon at…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'll start by saying the graphics are nice and the music design is also very enjoyable. But this game is still full of bugs that really take away from any immersion. Vehicles are buggy, randomly keeping engine audio playing when leaving a vehicle. Players occasionally gets moved miles away from the vehicle when exiting. Parts of the map are way too dark even with a torch equipped on a gun. A torch should be a default feature, not something added to weapons. Theres no point in…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, this one’s kinda tricky to rate. How I Got It: I actually picked this up through a Humble Bundle. I bought the bundle for another game, so I basically see this one as free—which is how I’ll be judging it. Is it worth the full asking price? Short answer: not really. Before outlining the good and bad: I played this game on the hardest difficulty and... It’s super easy—even on the hardest difficulty, I just walked around without needing cover, and honestly, I didn’t mind that. It…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game. I REALLY did. The visuals and environments are great looking and I was hoping for some amazing thought provoking Sci-Fi where you explore the cosmos. Instead you get a bland FPS, an incoherent plot, and some of the worst dialogue I've ever suffered through. At least it was beatable in less than 6 hours because I couldn't take any more of it. Pros: - Nice visuals and environments - Varied locations Cons - Plot makes no sense and has delusions of grandeur. The…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel like all this game's little bugs and quirks would be fondly remembered as a cult classic if it had just had a little more clarity of vision. This game has a lot of aspects, but none are polished. It feels a bit like "We paid for the whole game engine, so we''re going to use the whole game engine." Start with a basic shooter. Add a pile of weapons and a huge number of customizations that look interesting, but instead are ultimately shallow and barely affect game play. Add a skill…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's clear that a lot of hard work and love went into this game. It's more than playable but it does have its bugs. Nothing that stopped me from playing outright though. My only real criticism is that the dialogue is a bit forced and unnatural. It doesn't sound conversational, it sounds exactly like what it is; prerecorded sentences that are stacked up in a queue and played in sequence, sometimes incorrectly. I agree with some other reviews that the gun upgrades seem a little superfluous.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's generally a cool game kind of like Half-Life once was. The world is mostly nice looking with grand scales like climbing a spacestation while in space was really beautiful. At those 12€ i paid for the game its hard to complain but there are still some things that makes me give it a thumbs down: - I've played for about 3 hours now and the enemies are still the same silly robots the mostly are hard to defeat (im playing hard so thats ok) but there is very little tactic variance : Hide,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly, I think it's a game with a lot of good points: - The graphics look like a AAA game. It reminds me a lot of games like Prey (2017) or Doom (2016). - The music and ambient sound are very good and immersive. It reminds me a lot of Borderlands 2 or Portal 2. - The character mobility is very satisfying, which is the hardest thing to find in indie games. - The weapons look like something out of Call of Duty or Battlefield, and they can be modified. - The character has a skill development…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just finished Moon Mystery in about 5.7 hours, completing it 100% with all trophies. It’s a short game—but honestly, that’s a good thing. It knows exactly how long it should last and doesn’t overstay its welcome. Overall, I had a good time with it. The experience is far from perfect, but it’s a charming and surprisingly varied little adventure. The story is fine—not amazing, but engaging enough to keep you interested. What really gives the game its heart is the relationship between Sam and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I gave this a modest amount of thought and I did finish the whole game. I can't recommend it to be honest. There's too much that's lacking for that price. I really support indie developers but this game needed a significant amount more time in the oven. The biggest issue I have with is that it seems like the game doesn't know what it wants to be. RPG, Ego shooter, platformer, puzzle game. It has all the elements and it doesn't do any of them well. They are just less good or worse.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seems like a cool game with an interesting concept just is so poorly optimised constant jitter and im getting less than 60fps on a RX 6600XT which is above the recommenced specs....
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Could not finish due to poor design. The character-shoving plot and un-interesting battle maps aside, I was at least willing to finish this game out of my love for visually-beautiful large-scale space sci-fi. When the Guardian boss happened though, that was the last straw. It is way, way too tough, even on the easiest difficulty setting, and even after I learned its strategy, the poor dodging controls and sluggish gun reloads just couldn't let me do any more than a quarter of damage to it. I'm…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For what it is, its a good game. You can't go into this thinking AAA. The plot is a little weak, and the voice acting is flat, as you'd read in other reviews. I enjoyed it though. The little puzzles to get through levels added to your standard fps. A few of the bosses were tricky to get through until you figure out their weaknesses. I feel the amount of enemies could have been increased though. There are large parts most of the maps that are baron. Overall, beautiful game, great…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hate this game not because it’s outright terrible, but because it shows a little promise at the start only to fall apart the deeper you get. By the time I realized how bad things were getting, I was already hooked on the narrative and felt stuck pushing through. Performance is one of the biggest offenders. Early on, it’s just about adequate, but around the 30% mark, the framerate begins to tank, inputs become inconsistent, and by the end, the game is borderline unplayable thanks to bugs,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great idea but terrible execution. I'm willing to look past the Portal puzzle rips offs and the total lack of objective to a point, but after I got to the submarine section I ending up giving up. The controls are fine, but the sonar is useless, and I spent hours looking for the two pylons and then after I destroyed them couldn't find my way out. I wonder if the developers even tested this with users? The game up to this point was OK, but the underwater section is a TOTAL FAILURE, On…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a great game, but I will not recommend it as long as the "Guardian at the Gate" (aka the boss) is impossible for me to defeat. I have found no reasonable way to beat him. Some reviews have said hide here or there and shoot the blue things to stun him. In the current version, he remains stunned a very short time, at least on my computer, and even if you hit his weak spot, he is not damaged very much. Therefore, I just cannot recommend the game. Also, sometimes the boss will slide…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Moon Mystery seems somewhat confused about what it wants to offer. It has elements of a detailed shooter, a puzzle title, an adventure, and even a bit of horror, but struggles to make them into a cohesive whole. Like a theme park, we meander through shootouts, underwater treasure hunts, laser puzzles, and back to fighting without there being much rhyme or reason to our actions. Now, I do realise this is an indie title, and I am impressed by the many systems the devs have implemented. I just…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At first, I thought this game was someone's student project. Then I found out it was funded via kickstarter, so I assumed it was a typical scam where the devs throw together an asset flip game and pocket 99% of the kickstarter money. However, to my surprise, it appears the devs were active on the steam forums and seemed to care about their game. They even supported it with patches for a little bit after release. Unfortunately, this means that they really did try to make a proper game... and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Must have been years since I did a negative review of a game, but this game is a trainwreck. I got this in a Humble Bundle, so never planned to buy this game, but it sounded good so gave it a try. First of all the game is badly optimized and poorly done before they released it. When the game is loading it's flickering and turned my view and character all the time. It got a little bit better putting down the settings to low, but I still had to experience bugs and still hard to aim or move…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Despite there being an option to turn off head bobbing, the setting doesn't seem to do much. I could only play for a couple of minutes before I got simulation sickness from the camera shaking and movement during animations and combat. I normally don't have problem with simulation sickness in games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Trailer looked interesting but the scrip is clearly being read by an ai, ♥♥♥♥♥ boring and its a waste of money
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you like Half-life, got 20 bucks, and looking to support an Indie Dev team of 10 people get Moon Mystery. Played it last night and while it can be rough, narratively, it plays well and just gets better as the game goes on. Great job from team Cosmoscouts. store.steampowered.com/app/1933840/...
unlabelledView post →TLDR: I think this game is the definition of a good "bad" game. Go into it with low expectations, and you may be pleasantly surprised. I would give this a neutral rating if that was possible. Full Review: I originally received this game in a Humble Bundle a while back and I came into this without any previous knowledge, without looking at any reviews, and without really even watching any trailers. I went into this completely blind. Your opinion on this game will be HEAVILY dependent on how…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hate to leave reviews like this, but I have to. To be honest, the game seems very well made. The story is interesting so far, the graphics are good, it’s fully voiced, and performance is good. Even on my ROG Ally, with settings maxed I get about 45-60 fps. Why do I not recommend it? Simple. There’s no cloud save. This isn’t a cheap $3 game that can be beat in an hour. This is a full multi-hour experience and there’s no ability to play from multiple devices. Cloud save activation is FREE for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm only about 4 hours in, so maybe it gets better, but so far, there's a whole lot less mystery than I expected. It's a decent enough FPS, but the levels feel pretty empty, and the puzzle mechanics feel fairly.. clunky? I guess? The space ship flying was pretty rough, you can't go backwards or gain altitude without changing direction, and the car driving felt super out of place, and even with the levels being more empty space than anything, I still somehow always run out of ammo for my smg. it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not worth buying at this price. The game have a lot of bugs, A LOT. It have really bad graphic optimization for the viziual like half-life. The only good part is the beginning of story, it looks like something new but eventually it become boring and the ending is allmost same like some cough cough movie (trying not to spoil). Overall wait for bigger discount then it might be worth it
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Start game on "Easy" difficulty, because the story sounds interesting but I'm not trying to be a marine here. The very first encounter after leaving the start location has two robots who absolutely mop the floor with me. Over and over, no matter what I try; they are just unbeatable. Barely started the game and I'm unable to progress. :( Half an hour later, screw it - there are better games out there to play that properly implement difficulty levels. --- Developer convinced me that the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like this a lot more than I did, because the initial premise was genuinely intriguing, but seems to be discarded pretty early and then just becomes a case of go places because... <shrug>. The gameplay experience is mainly explore, occasionally shoot some robots and deal with some at times frustrating puzzles and possibly the worst vehicle sections in any game I've played. There's some limited value in exploring - cash is functionally useless as the only thing you can spend it on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun and very interesting space game with a weird and crazy story. But a fun time to be had.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall, the game is really good. The story is nice, interesting, and has a meaning. I know it was made by indie developers, so I won't get into bugs, but there were some things that really bothered me: 1. Movement – I was keep getting stuck on some small elements which I should be able to just run over. 2. Bugs and crashing on the black hole level (driving the car on Earth). 3. Big lags when loading next rooms and optimization problems, even though I have a beast of a computer (Ryzen 7…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Interstellar first-person shooter adventure game Moon Mystery launches October 28 www.gematsu.com/2024/09/inte...
unlabelledView post →For me this game is an asset flip with good intention's to make a decent game. Unfortunately it backfired. The asset sizes are all different and there is no real cohesion in artstyle. The Story is below B-Movie and at times cringeworthy. It does not give you the urge to play further. Then there are the technical issues like stuttering or the scopes sometimes do not line up where your shot is going. Everything is to dark and when you adjust the brightness only 0.1 up it blows the whole picture…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game. In fact, I still to, at least conceptually. I enjoyed the visuals, the writing, and even the effects. But the game suffers from ssome sort of performance bug that is universal on any level of hardware, causing it to stutter AT LEAST every 30 seconds, even on medium settings, effectively making this game utterly unplayable. Since there aren't going to be anymore updates or bug fixed, I absolutely cannot recommend this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game should still be in early access for the amount of bugs I encountered. Softlocking the game before an autosave. Forgetting control settings every time I open the menu. It's ridiculous. I can forgive some jank, but this game isn't finished.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Basically an FPS with a very very weak and implausible story. A few nonsensical puzzles thrown in for padding. Fatigue sets in quickly followed by abandonment and deletion of the offending game. Was part of a bundle so no tears were spilt.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Would I recommend this game? Only in a sale. Would I play it again? Only if they fixed the achievements Cons: Graphic bugs, game play bugs, achievement bugs, and a story that was hard to follow. Pros: FPS, cool soundtrack, chill.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I didn't finish the game, I never will, I don't recommend you even start. It seems that developer bit of more than he could chew, and the game will never be finished. The short version- horrible gun play, full of bugs, bad save system, bad game design BTW, THE GAME IS NOT ON THE MOON AND THERE IS NO MYSTERY Details: Pro: Visually interesting locations Con: -Gun play is atrocious, everything is a bullet sponge, and the weapons sound and feel like nerf guns. -Full of bugs, for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had this game as number 1 on my wishlist since the first time I saw it on Reddit a few years ago. So I bought it on release but didn't get around to playing it until now. I'm not going to lie. It needs more work. And the developer seemingly abandoned it. I know the feeling very well of having a project that is like my baby crash and burn. So I cannot blame him for doing so. With all that said, there is a lot to like here and a lot of variety to the gameplay; a lot more than can be said…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Holy ♥♥♥♥ does this run like absolute ♥♥♥♥, only just made it to the 10 min marker to be able to leave this review Every couple of steps, if you're turning your vision you just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ teleport to a new spot or you get your vision jerked halfway around, disgustingly unoptimized on FPS cap and the games ability to load itself Weapons dont hit ♥♥♥♥, the auto-aim is actively fighting against you and even without it your bullets just disappear - so glad to see another game get shotguns only…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I was very excited to play this game after the marketing and trailer. It looked like a beautiful space exploration game and it does have some elements of that. The environments are well designed and I was determined to finish the game. I completed the game on hard as a mediocre FPS player in just under 8 hours including a fair amount of AFK time which by itself means the game is far too short for the price-point. The game has a lot of bugs (a few of which were quite irritating), but only…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I do not recommend this game and you should absolutely play it. You read that right. Moon Mystery is a game too ambitious for its own good and it shows constantly during this 8-hours adventure. Everything feels like an afterthought, fights are shallow, performances are terrible, even on low setting and bugs are aplenty. Which makes this game bad. But hilariously bad. And that's what made me play it to the end. Enemy AI for example was a great source of laughter. In this game, you constantly…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Could not keep playing. Janky combat, unlit hallways, annoying jumping puzzles, wild mouse-look camera movements, and a goofy story. Seemed like someone's first attempt at a game. Everyone has gotta start somewhere... Might be better to start with a smaller scope for the first attempt.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL; DR: this is a project with a lot of love behind it, but the numerous bugs and rushed story beats had me uninstall well before finishing the game to await optimization and content updates before returning to it for completion. Pros: -gunplay is overall good -setting is well-realized and immersive -art direction is great -music is good and adds to the atmosphere -has that indie "special sauce" where you can tell the dev team was putting their passion into this Cons: -*Michael Scott voice*…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game looks and sounds pretty good, but all it other shortcomings will drag it down. It starts with a notification that it's from a few people that worked on it in their spare time or some such - that's a red flag if I have ever seen one. Guys, people pay you money. There is no "but we are just a wee little studio and not a big corporation". Games can be good or bad, but don't start with excuses. The beginning sequence with a bit tutorial is a bit disjointed, but hey, it turns out to be a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There aren’t many games like Moon Mystery. That’s why you should give it a try — even if it has some minor or major flaws. I really enjoyed the cosmic atmosphere and the gunplay. Driving special vehicles is very bad, as is the optimization. But even so, Moon Mystery is worth playing and supporting the developer.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i did not expect much at all, but thats tragic... the trend with nowdays quality and development it's just worse than parody movie.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Moon Mystery is an interesting game that is ultimately defeated by its own ambition. This indie FPS clearly wanted to take a shot at the big leagues by including all the fancy features of AAA shooters, but unfortunately, it spread itself too thin in the process. Combat: Competent. The shooting is satisfying, the weapons are well-animated, and while the upgrade system is basic, it works well enough. Enemy AI: Horrendous. Robots frequently get stuck on geometry, run around in circles, and do…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game looks wonderful! the visual of the space, the music, breathtaking! Love that developers used some of the mechanics from other games (e.g. reloading while aiming down sights, or Portal puzzles) The overall mechanic and gameplay is really nice, but I have some drawbacks to mention...its the voicing of the main character... sounded without any emotion behind it and it was kind of an un-optimized mess here and there. But all in all, really loved the game! specially the music! (kudos to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got this game expecting a mystery to solve on the moon, like the name suggested. Instead you leave the moon almost immediately and the game turns into a janky FPS game where you fight robots at various locations.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun and different. I very much would like to see this type of game expanded on. Yes, it has a few things that could use a bit of refinement but not bad for independent venture.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great work by small indie dev team. The atmosphere is great and overall cool concepts have been implemented.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not 100% what I expected, but I don't want to insult the devs by saying the trailer made Moon Mystery seem a lot "smarter", either. I wasn't expecting hard sci-fi, but the prospect of the black hole and craziness surrounding it drew me in. What I ended up playing was a fight against an army of bipedal robots, something like an FPS from back in the Duke Nukem 3D days. And I don't mean that as an insult (although if you drop the graphic settings to low, it does look like a pretty Build Engine…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Screw the Gate Guardian. Stopped me from playing, Uninstalled the game after the ?th attempt - Guardian basically instant killed me every single time after a few seconds into the boss fight.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At the end of it all, it was a good game. at least game play wise. the story was weird, but enjoyable enough that it didn't detract from the game at all. I did run into a few small visual bugs, like after using a weapon terminal the character would interact with an invisible gun. or the last gun i used would "combine" with the crate scanner, which i found hilarious personally. I did run into a big bug on the planet after the ice planet, Broke a pillar and at a different pillar, ended up…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really want to like this game, but it's too buggy. I got softlocked in the first mission when an interact prompt for the security computer wouldn't show up, and then when I returned to title and reloaded, my xbone controller's inputs got messed up with no way to reset or otherwise configure them. Reloading again did not solve the input issues. This feels like it just started early access, not a full release.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game isnt perfect, there a few bugs here and there, the optimzation isnt perfect, but what it is: Moon mystery is a refreshing story focused mystery sci-fi exploration game. I have missed this genre of game that is meant to tell a story. Moon mystery starts you off with complete mystery, wondering what is going on, but by the end you have the complete story, and you feel fulfilled. Unlike many games produced nowadays, Moon Mystery is a <10 hour endeavor. You can 100% just sit down and play…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXfF... Heya folks, here's a 2nd 10 Minute Gameplay from my playthrough of Moon Mystery by Cosmoscouts and Indie.io. #moonmystery #videogames #indiegames #fps #gameplay
unlabelledView post →Game is ok overall, but performance is terrible. I had laptop with 3070 and at some places FPS were at 5-10 even on minimal graphics. Now I got 5070ti laptop and on medium it's barely playable. I understand small studios can't spend too much resources on optimization, but come on... I think on 5090 it would still ask for more and stutter...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very interesting game as far as its concept goes, but unfortunately the game is plagued by bugs, eventually making the final boss impossible (at least for me) to beat due to it repeatedly glitching all over the place and getting stuck to places where it can't take any damage at all but it can surely damage me despite the circumstance. Another bug is with its autosave feature. If it doesn't autosave after you get a new weapon and you die before it can autosave, if you hit continue, you'll lose…
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