Lunacid

Item: Lunacid
Rating: 88
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-07-09

Summary

Exceptional atmospheric soundtrack and eerie atmosphere
Rewarding maze-like exploration, no map
Simple combat, but can be repetitive
Unengaging boss fights are a weakness
Confusing levels and obscure secrets
Authentic King's Field spiritual successor

Emotions

Satisfaction30%Frustration11%Excitement8%Disappointment7%Enjoyment6%

Reviews (sample size): 2000
Helpful reviews: 68%
Unhelpful reviews: 32%
Protest reviews: 1%

88%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
12%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 5814
Negative points: 2365
Gameplay points: 1491
Perf. points: 29
Rec. points: 1033
Misc points: 239

Point	Description	Importance
Exceptional Atmospheric Soundtrack Description The game's soundtrack is consistently highlighted as a major strength, praised for its quality, variety, and ability to perfectly complement the game's diverse moods and environments. It ranges from melancholic and ambient to unnerving and even groovy, significantly enhancing immersion. Importance 100%	The game's soundtrack is consistently highlighted as a major strength, praised for its quality, variety, and ability to perfectly complement the game's diverse moods and environments. It ranges from melancholic and ambient to unnerving and even groovy, significantly enhancing immersion.	100%
Rewarding Maze-like Exploration Description Players consistently praise the game's labyrinthine and interconnected level design, which encourages thorough exploration and rewards curiosity with numerous secrets, hidden areas, and pathways. The non-linear progression and sense of discovery are central to the game's appeal. Importance 100%	Players consistently praise the game's labyrinthine and interconnected level design, which encourages thorough exploration and rewards curiosity with numerous secrets, hidden areas, and pathways. The non-linear progression and sense of discovery are central to the game's appeal.	100%
Unique Eerie Atmosphere Description The game's distinct retro art style, combined with its sound design and environmental storytelling, creates a deeply immersive and often haunting atmosphere. This aesthetic ranges from spooky and mysterious to surprisingly cozy, enhancing the sense of dread and wonder during exploration. Importance 95%	The game's distinct retro art style, combined with its sound design and environmental storytelling, creates a deeply immersive and often haunting atmosphere. This aesthetic ranges from spooky and mysterious to surprisingly cozy, enhancing the sense of dread and wonder during exploration.	95%
Authentic King's Field Successor Description The game is widely praised as a faithful and authentic spiritual successor to classic FromSoftware titles like King's Field and Shadow Tower. It successfully captures the essence, atmosphere, and gameplay feel of these retro dungeon crawlers while incorporating modern quality-of-life improvements. Importance 20%	The game is widely praised as a faithful and authentic spiritual successor to classic FromSoftware titles like King's Field and Shadow Tower. It successfully captures the essence, atmosphere, and gameplay feel of these retro dungeon crawlers while incorporating modern quality-of-life improvements.	20%
Engaging Simple Combat Description The combat system is described as simple and accessible, yet engaging due to strategic elements like enemy weaknesses and varied damage types. It is noted for being an improvement over its inspirations, feeling smooth and satisfying without being overly complex or punishing. Importance 16%	The combat system is described as simple and accessible, yet engaging due to strategic elements like enemy weaknesses and varied damage types. It is noted for being an improvement over its inspirations, feeling smooth and satisfying without being overly complex or punishing.	16%
Diverse Weapons & Utility Spells Description Players appreciate the extensive variety of unique weapons and spells available, which offer diverse playstyles and encourage experimentation. Many spells also provide utility beyond combat, interacting with the environment to unlock new pathways and secrets, adding depth to exploration. Importance 13%	Players appreciate the extensive variety of unique weapons and spells available, which offer diverse playstyles and encourage experimentation. Many spells also provide utility beyond combat, interacting with the environment to unlock new pathways and secrets, adding depth to exploration.	13%
Intriguing Cryptic Lore Description The game's lore and story are consistently found to be deep, interesting, and well-delivered, often in a cryptic, Dark Souls-esque manner through environmental details, item descriptions, and NPC dialogues. This encourages players to piece together the narrative, adding to the mystery and replayability. Importance 11%	The game's lore and story are consistently found to be deep, interesting, and well-delivered, often in a cryptic, Dark Souls-esque manner through environmental details, item descriptions, and NPC dialogues. This encourages players to piece together the narrative, adding to the mystery and replayability.	11%
Polished Retro Feel Description The game successfully blends a nostalgic, old-school aesthetic (often compared to PS1/N64 era) with modern technical polish and quality-of-life improvements. This approach provides a smooth and comfortable gameplay experience, making it accessible to new players while appealing to veterans of classic dungeon crawlers. Importance 7%	The game successfully blends a nostalgic, old-school aesthetic (often compared to PS1/N64 era) with modern technical polish and quality-of-life improvements. This approach provides a smooth and comfortable gameplay experience, making it accessible to new players while appealing to veterans of classic dungeon crawlers.	7%
Memorable Charming Characters Description The game's characters and NPCs are frequently praised for their unique designs, charming personalities, and engaging dialogue. Despite the game's often dark tone, these characters add a touch of humor and warmth, making interactions memorable and contributing to the overall world-building. Importance 5%	The game's characters and NPCs are frequently praised for their unique designs, charming personalities, and engaging dialogue. Despite the game's often dark tone, these characters add a touch of humor and warmth, making interactions memorable and contributing to the overall world-building.	5%