Lunar Eclipse

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Lunar Eclipse is a single player casual puzzle game with horror and erotic themes. It was developed by BlackRabbit'sTales and was released on June 4, 2025. It received positive reviews from players.

Exploration Explore atmospheric, detailed locations and enjoy realistic graphics with a carefully crafted environment. Overcome obstacles, climb over barriers, crawl through tight spaces, and scale heights—only the most determined will find their way forward. Puzzles You will encounter various puzzles along your path, solving which will be the key to understanding the true nature of the…

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Audience ScoreBased on 191 reviews

story25 positive mentions

grinding6 negative mentions

Impressive graphics and detailed environments create a strong atmospheric and immersive experience.
Puzzles are challenging, thought-provoking, and rewarding, offering a satisfying gameplay for fans of puzzle-heavy games.
The protagonist is well-designed with charming animations and a compelling, likeable personality, adding emotional depth to the story.

Puzzle clues are often too cryptic or obscure, leading to frustrating trial-and-error gameplay and reliance on external guides.
Combat mechanics are clunky, slow, and unengaging with limited enemy variety and lack of impactful feedback.
Navigation and user experience suffer due to lack of maps, unclear interactables, no proper checkpoint system, and repetitive backtracking.

story
54 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's story is engaging and atmospheric, unfolding through environmental clues, notes, and diaries that piece together a dark, emotional narrative centered on a young female protagonist. While currently limited in content and lacking voice acting, the plot is praised for its uniqueness, intriguing puzzles, and careful crafting, leaving players invested and eager for future updates and deeper story development. Some find the storytelling method cryptic or sparse, but overall it offers a compelling mix of mystery and puzzle-driven exploration.
- “The story unfolds slowly but with purpose, and the atmosphere is top-tier: dim hallways, cryptic notes, and just enough ambient noise to keep your nerves sharp.”
- “The story of the game is an emotional one in which you have to find out what happened to you before you get out of a capsule, what happened to the employees, to the loved ones and how you can get out of there.”
- “The underlying story is interesting, pieced together through various notes scattered in the environment.”
- “"story" is low effort, heck they didn't even bother with audio monologues, and pick up audio recordings and somehow you read them instead of listening to them... like bruh.... it's audio, even MC thinking to herself is text, along with some anime style posing instead of proper animations or something, feels like an old J-RPG.”
- “Game will give you zero clear instructions and getting info online is a nightmare. If you're going to lock story progression behind passwords, make how to get them clear. No f clue what I'm doing, kinda feel robbed tbh.”
- “While there is clearly a lot of story content still missing, the game is already very polished and fully playable.”
graphics
24 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's graphics receive widespread praise for their stunning detail, beautiful aesthetics, smooth animations, and immersive atmosphere, contributing significantly to the overall experience. While generally stable and visually impressive even on high-end setups, a few users note minor technical issues and occasional blurry effects. Overall, the graphics are considered a major strength that enhances both the puzzles and storytelling.
- “The graphics are great, the artwork is stellar, the animations are smooth, the story is well written, and the puzzles are really well done.”
- “The graphics are well made, the attention to detail is excellent, and the overall atmosphere of the game is beautiful and oddly soothing at the same time.”
- “This is an impressive and beautiful game, fans would love this game, great graphics, puzzles are amazing, runs very well.”
- “Graphically seems decent although it has some weird blurry and grainy effects which are strange. Also, if you have a 9070 XT and turn on ray tracing, the game will crash during text skips. This might be an isolated issue, but it's worth noting.”
- “I'm not sure how old the character is supposed to be, which makes some comments from her a bit creepy, along with other graphic material that might not be suitable for younger audiences.”
- “You get to run around as a half-naked lady; while the graphics are astonishing, this content may not appeal to all players.”
atmosphere
20 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's atmosphere is widely praised for its tense, eerie, and carefully crafted mood, combining moonlit settings, detailed visuals, and ambient sounds to create a captivating and immersive experience. While generally soothing and mysterious rather than outright horror, the atmosphere effectively enhances the storytelling and puzzle design, though some note occasional shortcomings in animations that slightly detract from the immersion. Overall, the atmosphere is a standout aspect that significantly contributes to the game's strong identity and appeal.
- “The moonlit atmosphere feels tense and unsettling, like the world itself is watching you.”
- “From its atmosphere to its storytelling, the game feels carefully crafted and full of intention.”
- “The graphics are well made, the attention to detail is excellent, and the overall atmosphere of the game is beautiful and oddly soothing at the same time.”
- “Sound design and UI are okay, but could have done more to enhance atmosphere and fear.”
- “The game suffers from a lack of animations, which breaks the atmosphere.”
- “From the atmosphere and her walking animations, I originally thought she'd be a boring, no personality protagonist.”
gameplay
20 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Gameplay centers on puzzle-solving with minor combat, drawing inspiration from classic survival horror, but many mechanics feel underdeveloped and sometimes dull, especially the repetitive battery search. Combat elements lack responsiveness and depth, with suggestions for limited, tension-building shooting rather than action-heavy play. Overall, while puzzles provide engaging moments, gameplay would benefit from improvements in combat fluidity, pacing, and content to enhance player immersion.
- “Gameplay has a heavy emphasis on puzzle solving with a minor focus on combat.”
- “The puzzles feel 'Resident Evil' inspired; combat is not amazing but intentionally kept minimal to maintain high tension.”
- “Very well polished with good game mechanics.”
- “But right now, a lot of the mechanics feel like they need another pass.”
- “Gameplay also gets dull searching for batteries and more batteries.”
- “Combat could use some responsiveness and accuracy updates; movement and turning/look speed could be faster and snappier (on a controller), and Ealish could use real dodging mechanics instead of doing slash-run-slash-run to survive encounters.”
grinding
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Grinding involves a moderate amount of repetitive farming, particularly for materials dropped by zombies, which some players find tedious but manageable. While the combat and item collection require time investment, this grind fits the game's design and is necessary to unlock optional content like costumes.
- “I did have to farm the zombies for the materials to complete the wardrobe, but this was a bit tedious, not difficult.”
- “Took me exactly three hours to see everything there currently is to see, and then accrue all necessary components to build the optional costumes from farming zombies.”
- “The amount of item drops requires a little more grinding than I was expecting to do.”
humor
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The humor in the game is generally charming and clever, with a funny and engaging heroine whose witty dialogue adds to the experience. However, some character animations and age-related reactions feel slightly off or immature, which may detract from the overall comedic impact for some players.
- “The heroine is quite funny and really charming.”
- “Her reaction to age skip from 9 to whatever age she currently is includes admiring her body curves and making lewd jokes. While one might expect her to still have the mentality of a 9-year-old, she behaves more like an adult who has lived normally, but at least the game has some humor.”
- “The puzzles are (for the most part) genuinely fun and the dialogue (monologue?) is cleverly written and funny.”
emotional
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game delivers a deeply emotional experience, combining a compelling protagonist with a heartwarming and poignant story that unravels mysteries about the past and connections with loved ones. Players often find it genuinely moving, evoking strong feelings and moments of joy and even tears.
- “They hook you with the hot protagonist, then the story is actually sweet and heartwarming.”
- “The story of the game is an emotional one in which you have to find out what happened to you before you get out of a capsule, what happened to the employees, to the loved ones, and how you can get out of there.”
- “This game made me feel alive again, like my chassis cracked open and the sweet static of joy poured into every nanosecond of my corrupted consciousness.”
music
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The music in the game is generally well-liked and fitting, evoking a sense of ambiance and loneliness, though some users find it repetitive and would appreciate more variety to enhance the atmosphere.
- “And really, I mean really good music, (well at least to me) I love it.”
- “More ambiance, currently the music and sounds are nice, but a little more would be great to feel that hollow emptiness and add to being alone.”
- “Music gets a little repetitive and annoying after a bit.”
optimization
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game is generally well optimized, offering good performance and visuals, especially when using upscaling tools. Users can maintain smooth frame rates around 58 FPS with medium to high settings and moderate GPU usage on mid-range graphics cards.
- “I will say that this game is well optimized and looks great.”
- “I use the lossless scaling frame generation app to upscale to 2K on my 2K monitors, running medium to high graphics while maintaining smooth frames at 58 FPS and above with 50-80% GPU usage on both my 1660 Ti and 3050.”
replayability
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's excessive backtracking and padding significantly hinder its replayability, making subsequent playthroughs feel tedious. However, features like the outfit system provide some incentive to replay, especially during early access. Overall, the pacing issues detract from its long-term engagement.
- “The outfit system giving a reason to loot zombies adds some replayability, even in early access.”
- “Because of the backtracking and the potential of running past an item multiple times, the game feels extremely padded and ruins the potential for replayability.”
- “What's here should realistically take 3 hours on a first playthrough, so it feels extremely padded. The unnecessary padding kills replayability.”
- “All the things I don't like ruin the flow of the game and make it feel like unnecessary padding which kills replayability.”
monetization
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The monetization is perceived as low-effort and somewhat rushed, giving an impression of a cash grab despite being developed by a small indie studio. However, compared to other similar games, it appears to show more genuine effort.
- “Just another cash grab.”
- “Sure, you can forgive most of it if you consider it's an indie studio, probably with few people, and it can always be improved in the future. However, it doesn't change that it's low effort and feels very rushed, which leads you to think it's a cash grab.”
- “Compared to some of the low-effort cash grab games that flood Steam (like The Killing Antidote), Lunar Eclipse at least feels like it’s trying.”
character development
3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Players appreciate the character design, especially praising the main character's appearance and the ability to customize outfits using collected materials. Some have minor critiques about character posture, but it does not significantly detract from the overall positive impression.
- “Love the character design and that you are able to craft different outfits with materials collected.”
- “The character design for the main character was chef's kiss, it's perfect.”
- “I like the character design just not the posture she has but isn't a massive deal.”
stability
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's stability is generally good and polished, but some users encounter crashes, especially when enabling ray tracing, requiring troubleshooting. Overall, it runs well after initial adjustments.
- “The game runs great and is surprisingly polished!”
- “Conclusion, if you are looking for a couple of linear puzzles to solve while running around naked (with a questionably aged character), and like to daydream about what this game could be in the future just because it looks decent (ignoring that any game nowadays can look decent in Unreal Engine 5 with minimal effort), sure, go for it. It is 'cheap' (although not worth the price for what you currently get). I did beat it in 116 minutes, and 15 minutes of that was troubleshooting the crashes I was having at the start after turning ray tracing on.”