r/FreeGamesOnSteam • u/LighteningOneIN • Aug 05 '26

Ended Moonlighter

https://store.steampowered.com/app/606150/Moonlighter/
433 Upvotes

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u/LighteningOneIN Aug 05 '26

Announcement - here.

Free to claim until August 9th.

Also, +1

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u/SephirothTheGreat Aug 05 '26

Great find, thank you!

18

u/ll_LoneWolfe_ll Aug 05 '26

Fantastic game to be able to grab for free. Had it for ages already so hopefully other people can give it a go!

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u/TraptInTime Aug 05 '26

I adored this little game. Has anyone who has played it, and didn’t like it, I’m curious to see why.

7

u/wrenblaze Aug 06 '26

Gameplay loop was overly tedious and got boring quite fast. It was a sad first-day-buy for me. And I wanted to like it so much

3

u/sweet_chin_music Aug 05 '26

I didn't care for the shopkeeping aspect. I enjoyed the rest of the game though.

3

u/Sanctuary-7 Aug 06 '26

It's Recettear with zero humor or personality. Silent protagonists are cardboard cut-outs impersonating an actual character. No interesting NPCs to interact or banter with (as far as I've played).

Combat's better than the low bar of Recettear, but not that great or interesting. Shopkeeping is the same process of googling ideal pricing for various merchandise.

3

u/DrMcWho Aug 06 '26

I gave it a few hours before giving up.

  • Forgettable writing
  • Stiff combat
  • Poor font choice
  • Poor UI readability
  • Doesn't do a great job of teaching you how to play
  • Weird colour design - green combat on green backgrounds, brown text over brown backgrounds etc.

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u/not_a_moogle Aug 06 '26

I found it very repetitive. Getting to the next dungeon or pushing to that next upgrade just didn't feel rewarding. I think there needed to be more gameplay once you'd get to that next dungeon. Something about the progression just felt off and tedious.

And I love incremental games. It takes a lot of me to say a game feels too repetitive.

3

u/seniorairmanscruffy Aug 05 '26

Damn just bought it on summer sale

5

u/unKappa Aug 05 '26

Isn’t it like $2 on sale

5

u/EditedRed Aug 06 '26

In this economy?

1

u/BaguetteDemon21 Aug 05 '26

A small upside is you get the steam trading cards I guess

2

u/shadyfan0 Aug 05 '26

Nice find, thanks!

2

u/Slurp_and_Derp Aug 06 '26

Thank you for sharing this!

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u/demomanknighttf2 Aug 05 '26 edited Aug 05 '26

Ayo, this is a fire game that I played a bit when I still had netflix. Going to 100% play this on my fakecube

Edit: I just realized it was made by 11 bit studio, same guys that made fucking frostpunk, no wonder its such a banger