Moonlighter Reviews

  • Killer WelshmanKiller Welshman970,159
    18 Jun 2019 18 Jun 2019
    6 2 5
    After sinking a fair few hours into this game, I feel like I am now in a position to give it a fair review.

    In Moonlighter, you play as young shopkeeper Will, who runs the shop in the small town of Rynoka.

    You run your store with items you gain from your dungeon crawling adventures, gain cash, upgrade your weapons and armor and more importantly expand your store to sell more items. This will be standard for your first few runs.

    Once you've made a few successful dungeon runs filling your bag with loot and earning money from selling your items to customers willing to give you their hard earned gold, you can start making headway with building other external stores - A Blacksmith, An Enchanter / Potion Vendor, La Retailer (will sell you items you may have lost in dungeons) and a Banker.

    Each of these vendors will help you in your quest, but they won't all be available immediately. I highly recommend keeping your Red Crystals to enchant you weapons quickly which will make the dungeons easier to traverse.

    The Dungeons

    The Dungeons are all randomly generated, everytime you leave the dungeon (or die) the whole dungeon will rearrange itself and becomes a whole new experience. There are 5 Dungeons in total, each Dungeon consisting of 3 floors and a boss room at the end of the 3rd floor.

    You start with the Golem dungeon unlocked, once you kill the boss in this Dungeon, the next one opens...and so on and so on. Until you kill all 4 bosses in the main dungeons - then the final dungeon is unlocked, where you can proceed to the Endgame.

    Graphically, Moonlighter is quite old-school with a retro bit theme. Personally I love this style of graphics with games at the moment and does make me feel quite nostalgic with games of the past.

    If I had to compare this game to any other recent release that fully pulled me in, then the comparison would be Graveyard Keeper (My Indie GOTY Contender for last year for any of my friends who would listen). Also has some references of Old School Zelda games as well with the Dungeon Crawling.

    If you've played Graveyard Keeper before, think of Moonlighter as a longer crawl through the dungeons with crafting elements that made GYK so much fun, just minus the morbidity of burying dead bodies.

    Achievments

    Achievements wise, you may be in for a grind. There are 4 achievements for killing 1000 creatures in each dungeon and a final killing achievement for slaying 10,000 enemies across the board so there will be an element of grinding here to go for the full list.

    There are also achievments for destroying the dungeon bosses and a seperate achievment for each for destroying the dungeon boss without taking damage.

    Blitzing the game in under 10 hours and finishing in under 40 deaths as well may prove a challenge to some but others will relish the opportunity to take on a harder challenge.

    Personally I absolutely love this Genre of game at the moment and have found myself looking for more and more titles to sink my teeth into. If you are a fan of games where you have more than 1 main goal (i.e not just hack and slash through levels or just manage a store etc), then this is for you.
    5.0
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    HawkeyeBarry20I think this game looks great but in the forums they talk about cheevos being buggy and corrupted saves which I want no part of. Have you experienced anything like that?

    Bug List (Or, Things not to do)
    Posted by HawkeyeBarry20 on 18 Jun 19 at 19:32
    Killer WelshmanI've got to admit I've not hit any bugs or corrupted saves as of yet. Just loving the game
    Posted by Killer Welshman on 18 Jun 19 at 19:37
    WhyattThrashThere are still quite a few bugs in the game. Patches have been released, but they seem to in some cases introduce new bugs while possibly fixing others. People have run into different bugs of different amount of game-breaking, and it’s not really clear what causes them.

    So it’s entirely possible you’ll encounter all of them, or none, on any given playthrough. If you give it a go, make frequent backup saves, since they seem to be tied to specific save slots (that save, once broken, will not be “fixed”).
    Posted by WhyattThrash on 24 Jun 19 at 14:52
    Aquahaze2If graveyard keeper was indie GOTY it must have been a really slow year
    Posted by Aquahaze2 on 28 Jun 19 at 02:54
    rygar6672buggy acheivements or not I must say I am really liking this game very much .
    Posted by rygar6672 on 29 May 20 at 19:38
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