Echo Night: Beyond (2004)

Developer: FromSoftware
Publisher: Indie Games, FromSoftware, Agetec, Nobilis Interactive
Platforms: PlayStation 2
Genres: Adventure
Rating: 3.0 of 5, 11 player ratings
Where to get it: Website

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How it feels

A lonely, unsettling walk through a dark and abandoned lunar station, haunted by restless spirits and the quiet dread of being stranded and separated from the one you love.

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About

Echo Night: Beyond, known in Japan as Nebula: Echo Night is a survival horror adventure video game. The game tells a science fiction ghost story, set in the not-too-distant future. Players take the role of a newlywed, off for a honeymoon on the moon. The vessel crashes before reaching its lunar resort destination, however, separating the just-married couple and leaving the hero alone at an abandoned research base. Players explore the station from a first-person perspective, inside a spacesuit. In addition to the many spiritual anomalies that haunt the forgotten station, strange lunar lighting and relative weightlessness add to the atmosphere of the game's environments.

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