Moo Lander - izigame

Game Info

Moo Lander is a 2.5D platformer with lots of environmental puzzles and resource management. You take control of the Lander and your mission is to locate and obtain enough milk – the most important resource in the universe. The milk itself is found only on the ancient planet of the mighty alien Cows. You progress through the game levels by going through many hostile creatures – both flora and fauna, and at the end of each level is a boss battle with a unique Cow. Your ultimate goal is to send enough of milk to save your people.

Name

Moo Lander

Companies

The Sixth Hammer

Released

5/22/2022

Platforms

Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One

Engines

Unity3D

Type

Platform, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie

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Reviews

Sunday, March 9, 2025 2:54:20 PM

1 Steam users votes up

Thr

Steam user

The game is fun at first but due to extremely clunky controls and unpolished design, it is progressively more and more frustrating to the point where I just gave up halfway through.
What is good about the game is the art style and the music. The story is kind of meh and the rest is just bad.
The controls feel like it was designed by someone who never held a controller in their life. It is truly atrocious. It tries to be a twin-stick shooter but somehow fails miserably and the controls just feel extremely bad. I got the laser as fast as I could so I would not have to spam R2 for each and every shot because hold-to-shoot is apparently too cool for the devs. It legit made my fingers hurt.
Once you get the dash ability, you immediately realize how bad the camera is. It constantly fails to follow at reasonable pace, making me constantly dash into thorns cos I can't see where I'm going. It truly shines in chase scenes where you just smash into things. The constant zoom-in in narrow places is also annoying as hell.
Once you get the splitter thingy, you also realize another design flaw. When aiming it, it constantly snaps to the ship itself which renders it completely unusable. So you have to keep constantly repositioning it until you get a lucky angle that somehow works. Why? What's the point of this useless snap "feature"? Why do I have to fight the game in order to play it? Can it be disabled? Of course not...
Changing camouflage of the ship to get different bonuses is nice until the game forces you to constantly switch in order to progress. It becomes just another annoyance at that point.
The cow fights are just as frustrating and extremely boring. It basically consists of just spamming L2 and moving left to right until your fingers fall off.
But where the game really took a dump on me was when you encounter the jumping hogs or whatever. The game locks your controls and zooms into a "cutscene" where you see the hogs spawn and start zooming around with lightning speed while the camera sloooooowly oh so slowly, taking it sweet sweet time, zooms back to your ship while all your controls are still locked. Once you finally regain control of your ship, you have about 0.000001 seconds before you're obliterated.
So no, I would definitely not recommend this game to anyone. When you need to fight the game in order to play it, that's when you know to stay away.

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Storyline

Our Moo Lander story begins with two ancient alien nations – The Landers and The Annunaki. They both lived together in peace and harmony. The core of their culture and technology was the milk – they actually found a way to harness infinite and absolutely clean energy from this miraculous substance. The cows which gave the milk were their most important possession. Unfortunately, there came a time when the Annunaki became greedy and wished all the milk for themselves. This naturally led to a civil conflict between the Landers and the Annunaki – it was a bloody and terrible war which led to the dying of all the cows. The so precious milk resource was depleted as a result of the war, and there were no more cows to produce it. So the Landers were on the brink of total extinction with no hope of saving their great civilization. However, the wise and powerful sages of the Landers remembered and ancient prophecy which spoke of a powerful device which was said to be able to generate infinite amounts of milk. So the Landers sent their most powerful warrior on a mission to retrieve this device. Traces of it were located on mars, so this was Spiro’s first destination. Time went and passed and the hero of The Landers never came back or sent any kinds of communication back to the people. A decision was made – the civilization could barely muster its last resources to build a single interstellar ship with a single Lander as the pilot. You are this last pilot, and your ship is the last remaining hope of your civilization. Your mission – to locate the device, bring it back and start to rebuild!

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