Overview

Blood Moon Horror: Built for fearless squads

Released into Steam Early Access on October 27, 2025, Blood Moon Horror is the solo-built survival horror project from Blood Moon Games.

Blood Moon Horror is a multiplayer co-op survival horror title from Blood Moon Games, built in Unreal Engine 5 for Windows PC on Steam. Up to eight players enter Lunar Base Alpha after the Red Horizon incident as the Ashlight Recovery team. The current public hook is simple and sharp: no weapons, no backup, restore failing systems, recover evidence, and escape threats that react to sound, light, movement, and power.

Studio + platform

  • Developer / Publisher: Blood Moon Games
  • Release status: Steam Early Access since 27 Oct 2025
  • Platform: Windows PC on Steam - Unreal Engine 5

Core concept

  • 1-8 players investigate a quarantined lunar research facility
  • Proximity voice chat makes callouts, whispers, and silence part of the pressure
  • No traditional combat: hide, run, distract, and outsmart the threats

Current build

  • Update 0.6 published on 28 Feb 2026
  • Electric Switch plus Circuit Breaker, Lights Out, Circuit Trace, and Circuit Reroute are in the current update path
  • Spectator upgrades, late-join improvements, and broader stability work are live
Lore & story

Red Horizon dossier

Enter Lunar Base Alpha after its final transmission fails and the Blood Moon leaves the base quiet, unstable, and listening.

Lunar Base Alpha

  • A quarantined lunar research facility built to push humanity further
  • The base went silent after the Red Horizon incident
  • Three months later, Ashlight Recovery breaches a sealed sector to investigate

The Blood Moon

  • The blood moon has risen and the base has gone silent
  • Power is unstable and life-support is failing
  • Darkness, audio, emergency lighting, and isolation drive the horror tone

NovaTech evidence

  • Crew logs, documents, and recordings reveal what happened beneath the lunar surface
  • Red Horizon ties the investigation to NovaTech's hidden work
  • Environmental storytelling is a core part of the mission loop

The mission

  • Search for supplies, clues, access points, and mission-critical systems
  • Restore electrical systems through switch boxes and power-route objectives
  • Complete objectives and reach extraction before quarantine locks the squad in again
Development roadmap

Blood Moon Horror development timeline

What is already public, what the latest Steam updates are focused on, and what remains on the Early Access path.

Live today

  • Single-player, online co-op, and LAN co-op for 1 to 8 players
  • Steam achievements, cloud saves, stats, and leaderboards
  • Puzzle set expanded by Update 0.6 with four new electrical challenges
  • World-space terminals and improved spectator flow

Current focus

  • Deeper AI behavior and more puzzle variation
  • Progression UX improvements and better run readability
  • Follow-up hotfixes for issues reported after larger patches
  • Performance and synchronization improvements across active systems

Early Access goals

  • More enemies, maps, areas, and run variety before 1.0
  • More ways to play and more replay value inside each run
  • Broader balance, UI, and quality improvements
  • A fuller version shaped by player feedback during Early Access
Core gameplay

How each Blood Moon Horror mission unfolds

Master the public gameplay pillars that drive each Lunar Base Alpha run.

Exploration

  • Search Lunar Base Alpha for supplies, clues, access points, and mission-critical systems
  • Recover files, recordings, and evidence about Red Horizon and the disaster that followed
  • Read the environment through corridors, emergency lighting, failing systems, and unsettling audio

Puzzle solving

  • Electric Switch, Circuit Breaker, Lights Out, Circuit Trace, and Circuit Reroute are the clearest public puzzle beats right now
  • Update 0.6 moved active puzzle play into readable world-space terminals
  • Failures increase pressure through hazards, enemy proximity, and lost time

Shuttle repair

  • Complete dangerous objectives and keep the route to extraction open
  • Repairs and restores require exploration, puzzle solving, and proximity management
  • Teamwork matters because fear makes clean coordination difficult

Enemy encounters

  • Steam describes threats that hunt by sound, movement, light, and electrical activity
  • Corrupted station machines patrol, investigate disturbances, move through vents, and punish predictable behavior
  • Additional enemy types remain part of the active Early Access development plan
Systems & progression

What keeps Blood Moon Horror squads invested

Multiplayer backbone

  • Steam-powered co-op support for online and LAN play
  • Improved shared-state consistency and late-join behavior in Update 0.6
  • Spectator flow now tracks active puzzle interactions more clearly

Loot, hub & currency

  • XP, player stats, and cosmetic customization are part of the current Steam-facing progression loop
  • Steam achievements, cloud saves, stats, leaderboards, Family Sharing, and Steam Timeline are listed publicly
  • Progression UX and shop improvements remain active Early Access work

Shop & customization

  • Choose from multiple scientist variants and unlock new skins through progression
  • Expanded customization and shop improvements are listed as active development goals on Steam
  • Cosmetics should help teammates stand out without turning the horror tone into noise

Survival layers

  • No weapons and no traditional combat: survival depends on stealth, timing, and team decisions
  • Proximity voice chat means nearby players can coordinate, panic, or reveal themselves
  • Online voice chat can include sudden sounds from other players, so the site keeps the content warning honest
Requirements

Blood Moon Horror system requirements

The published values below use the current Windows PC requirements provided for the Steam build.

Minimum requirements

  • OS: Windows 10/11
  • CPU: Intel Core i5-4590 / AMD FX-8350
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • GPU: NVIDIA GTX 960 / AMD Radeon R9 280
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 10 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: 60 FPS for Medium settings (With no Upscaling)

Recommended requirements

  • OS: Windows 10/11
  • CPU: Intel Core i7-8700K / AMD Ryzen 5 3600
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • GPU: NVIDIA GTX 1070 / AMD RX 580
  • Network: Broadband Internet connection
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 10 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: 60 FPS for High settings (With no Upscaling)
  • Current software version: 0.6
  • Latest major update: February 28, 2026
  • Engine: Unreal Engine 5
Stay looped in

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Community hub

Join Discord to find lobbies, share bug reports, and catch dev streams for Blood Moon Horror.

Support & press

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