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Savage Moon

Savage Moon is a tower defense strategy game which sees the player protecting a remote, off-world mining facility from constant attack by Insectocytes, a type of carnivorous creature inhabiting the planets…

73 24 December 2008

Savage Moon is a real time strategy (rts) developed by FluffyLogic, released 24 December 2008 on PlayStation 3.

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What Savage Moon is

Savage Moon is a real time strategy (rts) game developed by FluffyLogic and released in 2008. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation 3 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Savage Moon is a tower defense strategy game which sees the player protecting a remote, off-world mining facility from constant attack by Insectocytes, a type of carnivorous creature inhabiting the planets. The mission is to strategically place an array of upgradeable, defensive weapons in the way of the bugs. There is a range of towers, from rapid-fire machine guns to support towers such as the chaos tower.
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How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Savage Moon holds a critic score of 73 out of 100. That places it above 46% of the 612 rated real time strategy (rts) games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 8 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Savage Moon launched on 24 December 2008, within three weeks of Spelunky Classic, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Dissidia Final Fantasy and Defense Grid: The Awakening. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Spelunky Classic, Crayon Physics Deluxe, Dissidia Final Fantasy, Defense Grid: The Awakening.

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When did Savage Moon come out?
Savage Moon was released on 24 December 2008 for PlayStation 3.

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