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The Last Cosmonaut Brings Singapore-Made Horror to the Moon
Singapore indie developer Human Robot Games has released The Last Cosmonaut, a first-person survival horror and puzzle game that strands players deep within an abandoned lunar station.
The two-person team has built its horror around isolation rather than constant confrontation, drawing inspiration from games such as ROUTINE, Iron Lung and Mouthwashing.
Set within an alternate timeline where the United States and Soviet Union established permanent lunar bases, The Last Cosmonaut traps players aboard Sverdrup Station in the permanently shadowed regions of the Moon’s south pole. Something has clearly gone wrong.
Escaping Sverdrup Station Means Keeping the Lights On
Players need to uncover what happened to the station while finding a way back off the Moon. That involves restoring power to terminals, searching for components to repair an EVA suit and salvaging the parts required to construct a makeshift lunar escape vehicle. Lunar ice also needs to be mined and converted into fuel before that escape is possible.
Naturally, exploration is complicated by the fact that the station is not quite as abandoned as it first appears. Something stalks its darkened corridors, drawn to the player’s presence. The only real defence is a TP-85 shotgun, with ammunition scarce enough that avoiding trouble may be the better option.
Meanwhile, the fate of Sverdrup Station’s crew can be pieced together from tape recordings and QR codes scattered throughout the base.
The Last Cosmonaut Is Designed as a Short Horror Experience
Human Robot Games is deliberately keeping the scope compact. The Last Cosmonaut is an experience intended to be completed in a single sitting, although additional playthroughs may be necessary to discover every piece of its story.
That makes it a notably smaller horror project than many of the genre’s current releases, with the focus instead placed on atmosphere, environmental storytelling and the vulnerability of being trapped somewhere humanity was probably never meant to live.
The game also represents a more developed return to an idea Human Robot Games has explored before. An earlier prototype of The Last Cosmonaut was released on itch.io in 2020, originally featuring a stark 1-bit visual style and a Soviet lunar setting.
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The Last Cosmonaut is available now through Steam following its August 28 release.
