Lunar Lander Beyond

While Lunar Lander Beyond requires a delicate touch, the feeling that comes from mastering a perfect run and ship-shape crew cannot be beat. For the management fiends and skill-driven fans among us, get ready to kick the tires and light the fires during this Cosmic Event.

Lunar Lander Beyond is a fantastic re-imagining of the original game, but it can feel a little barebones outside of the campaign. But, it runs well on the Steam Deck.

Lunar Lander Beyond is a solid recommendation for fans of the lander sim genre. It performs well on the Switch with no discernible frame rate issues and looks great. But as it stands, its missions too often feel abbreviated at around three to six minutes and too tightly sandwiched between narrative. The issue is not its gameplay mechanics, but the strictures of its campaign structure. It’s a problem the developers could solve by staying the course and creating a mode focused squarely on what made the original compelling: flying, landing, and scoring better than everyone else.

I tend to complain at times about the deluge of “Recharged” games being released by Atari, but I get why they are made. It’s really hard to modernize, or add further substance, to games released nearly 45 years ago, back when technology was so limited, and the entirety of a game could be experienced in about five minutes. I understand why games like those are the norm, and Pong Quest and Haunted House are exceptions to the rule. Lunar Lander Beyond is yet another example. A brand new it...

As a fan of the original arcade game, I was pumped for Lunar Lander Beyond but does it live up to the classic? Let's take off and see.

I play games to relax. I play games to feel smart, to feel a false sense of power, or to have a story told to me that makes me feel I’ve learned something. Lunar Lander Beyond is based around the premise that frustration and failure are valid recreational activities.Read More