Getsumen no Anubis

Anubis of the Moon's Surface is a sound novel. Mark Kretzschmar and Sara Raffel, authors of The History and Allure of Interactive Visual Novels (2023), described the term used to primarily define Japanese games that rely on graphics and sounds instead of puzzles to tell a story and was more generally interchangeable with visual novels.

The game is progressed by pressing the buttons on the controller. In the game, the story changes on the action-oriented choices, but also on your choice of the emotional response to certain situations. For example, if the player chooses an aggressive choice, the next choices will follow suit and be more aggressive and assertive.

Anubis of the Moon's Surface has a science fiction setting of a lunar base on the moon. The game is set in the future, where the protagonist Keisuke is a researcher along with his female companion travels to the base via a space ship. Aboard the craft, he is involved in an accident which makes him wake up with no memory.

The game has over 20 different endings.

Famicom Tsūshin said that by October 27, 1995 two titles, Anubis of the Moon's Surface and Zakuro no Aji  from the Japanese publisher Imagineer were at about 35% completion. Planning and development of the game was handled by

Multimedia Intelligence Transfer.

In Famicom Tsūshin, the game was reviewed by a roundtable of four critics. Two critics compared it to the film Alien (1979) while a third says that while the games story moves at a brisk pace, they couldn't help but feel unsatisfied by it treading familiar territories. Another felt the characters were not developed enough so when incidents occur in the story, you did not emphasize with them.

Two reviewers felt that there weren't enough times for the player to choose what direction the narrative would take. One said that Zakuro no Aji had more choices while another say that after playing the other game, it would be inevitable that Anubis of the Moon's Surface would not feel fresh.