Awesome game! Looking forward to the sequel.

This is a weird game to review as it feels like it has more bad things than good but somehow the good things are so good that the overall experience is not ruined much by the bad things. In my book The Moebius Machine is a solid metroidvania.

A nutshell version of said bad things:
* Lack of variety: everything is the same-ish, areas, enemies, pick-ups, etc
* Close to non-existent story. I think the devs agreed that they weren't sci-fi writers and they didn't even try to add lore
* Shooting with the same gun against the same sort of enemies gets boring after a while
* Bosses are meh
* Some areas are incredibly annoying

The good things:
* Map design is AAA. Perfect balance of progress and backtracking to get to all the hidden corners
* Fun and some unusual movement skills that connect very well with finding new connections between the different areas
* Exploration: The above two points mean that getting closer to the end of the game it feels really rewarding when you find previously hidden paths and pick-ups.

To be frank, Exploration is the saving grace of the game, it almost feels like shooting at monsters is just something you have to do otherwise you die. Grab it on a discount for some couch shooting. Perfect on the Deck.

I would love to see what better and more complex game the team are capable of.

Okay this game was way better than i expected with great exploration, unique power-ups (like the ladder dash!) and some really solid boss fights. Plenty of opportunities to sequence break too.

Really enjoyed this, definitely recommend it