Luna's Wandering Stars

[h1] Master the powers of bull****. Throw s*** like rock and collect stuff. Watch out for gravity. Overall balls in your face type of game. [/h1]

Almost a good game, some cool concepts, but the difficulty scaling is all over the place. One level will feel completely free and then the next one will feel nearly impossible with no rhyme or reason to it. It just ends up being frustrating.

Physics puzzle game. On the good side, there's a variety of different gameplay modes, one per planet, and some of each planet's levels are entertaining and memorable. The physics is precise and deterministic, so you're not fighting the physics engine. On the bad side, 15 levels per planet absolutely outstays its welcome and it just feels like a grind. The flavour text is absolute dreck. The music is generic, not particularly spacey, and gets on your nerves after the umpteenth repetition.

Fun puzzle game based around gravity puzzles. Reasonably challenging without being frustrating. There is a surprising amount of variety in the level design. Unlike some other gravity puzzle games, such as Mighty Milky Way, I feel this game mixes things up with new mechanics regularly enough to keep things interesting. Progression is based around collecting up to three special objects within levels, specifically, golden asteroids. This system is likely familiar to players of many puzzle titles. Collecting enough golden asteroids lets you unlock new levels and new worlds with new game mechanics, so you can skip levels or even entire worlds if you do get frustrated with them. Throughout the game there are hints and little bits of exposition before each level. Some of these are just explanations of game mechanics, others are remarks on science and the nature of the universe. These can get a little dark, even macabre, albeit rarely. This is the only part of the game I might consider inappropriate for small children. Otherwise the game is quite inoffensive. One thing I did find slightly annoying are the many bits of dialogue that the game uses when you fail a level. There is an honest…

On my slow quest to finish my backlog, I got onto this game. It's a pretty difficult physics puzzle game with controls that feel kinda bad and that mocks the player for playing it. Hard pass.

This is a fun little puzzle-physics game based on orbits. You're attempting to control the orbit of a moon around a planet to pick up asteroids until your mass bar is full, but need to get 3 golden asteroids to unlock further planets. Each planet has a different mechanic for controlling the moon's orbit, from a more direct velocity vector (Mercury) to controlling the planet's gravity (Earth). It's quite challenging, but I think the "trial and error" characterization in other reviews is a bit unfair. While learning from failed launches and refining your launch angle or timing is certainly part of it, many of the reviews here are suggesting that solving the puzzles requires almost blind shots in the dark, which isn't true at all. With most puzzles I can either finish the puzzle (without full points for gold) or at least am moving in the right direction from the very first shot. From there it's a matter of dialing in the details. For people complaining that this game is too short or bare bones to be worth $10, I'd advise them to touch grass. This game comes with 8 planets, and each planet has a couple dozen stages, meaning probably over a hundred levels total with multiple game …