Steam Game Festival: Lunark is welcome platforming nostalgia Eurogamer.net If you click on a link and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. Read our editorial policy. Steam Game Festival: Lunark is welcome platforming nostalgia A real flashback. Feature by Christian Donlan Features Editor Updated on 5 Feb 2021 6 comments I don't think Lunark is about time travel, but for me it's a bit of a time machine. This is one of those 90s adventures where a hero in blue jeans and white sneakers mantles their way through an alien world. It's Flashback, and it's a bit of a flashback too. For whatever reason, this shameless piece of nostalgia has really clicked with me. I love it. Lunark chucks you into a mysterious future where industrialists are doing iffy things and something's happened to the moon. It's a 2D affair, and movement initially seems sluggish, a reminder of the days when graceful animation came at a price. After a quick robot tutorial, though, you're introduced to the dash button, and you'll soon be running and jumping and blasting critters all over the place. It's the same mixture of elegance and awkwardness I remember from games like Flashback and Another World, and the same gleeful, colourful imagination regarding what the future will look like. Watch on YouTube Where it sang for me was once I'd been dispatched on a mission. Down in an alien cave network, zapping spiders and moving crystals about to solve simple puzzles, I remembered that these sorts of games were always best played late into the night, with a school friend hanging out, long after the rest of the house has gone to sleep. Lunark is transporting, and I suspect that even if you're not old and boring like me you'll still get something magical out of it. Become a Eurogamer subscriber and get your first month for £1 Get your first month for £1 (normally £3.99) when you buy a Standard Eurogamer subscription. Enjoy ad-free browsing, merch discounts, our monthly letter from the editor, and show your support with a supporter-exclusive comment flair! Support us View supporter archive More Features Digital Foundry Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: a new level in graphics performance The Digital Foundry video review - and how the new GPU champion delivers for 4K 120fps gaming. Feature Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way "There's less rage at them, because they didn't end your fun." Feature What games get wrong about horses And what they could do about it. 28 Feature Shout out to all the Overwatch supports - where would we be without you? Merci. 55 Latest Articles Digital Foundry Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090: a new level in graphics performance The Digital Foundry video review - and how the new GPU champion delivers for 4K 120fps gaming. Feature Evercore Heroes wants to wind people up the right way "There's less rage at them, because they didn't end your fun." Google announces cloud gaming Chromebooks less than a fortnight after Stadia shutdown GeForce Now preinstalled. 4 Genshin Impact Path of Gleaming Jade dates, login event rewards Including other anniversary rewards and how to claim them. Supporters Only Premium only Off Topic: Take a minute to appreciate Cookin' with Coolio's incredible scallops recipe. What a great book. Premium only Off Topic: Reading City of Glass in comic form "Where exactly am I going?" Premium only Off Topic: Il Buco is a transporting film about a really big hole Underlands. Off-Topic Netflix handled Sandman brilliantly It was Dreamy. 9 Buy things with globes on them And other lovely Eurogamer merch in our official store! Explore our store