Moonlighter Gameplay

Moonlighter is an action role-playing game that mixes two distinct styles of gameplay into one amazingly fun experience. One half of Moonlighter involves you diving into dungeons to fight monsters and collect loot. The other half of the game has you taking your loot and selling it in your titular shop, aiming to get the perfect price that customers won't mind paying. You'll then take your proceeds and spend them upgrading the town, your shop, and your equipment so you can take on even greater challenges!

Moonlighter is an Action RPG that follows an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero. During an archeological excavation - a set of Gates were discovered. People quickly.

From the game's official website:

During an archeological excavation – a set of Gates were discovered. People quickly realized that these ancient passages lead to different realms and dimensions. Rynoka, a small commercial village, was found near the excavation site – providing brave and reckless adventurers with treasures beyond measure.

Moonlighter is an Action RPG with rogue-lite elements that demonstrates two sides of the coin – revealing everyday routines of Will, an adventurous shopkeeper that secretly dreams of becoming a hero.

Shopkeeping

While conducting your business in Rynoka village, you can put items on sale, set their price carefully, manage gold reserves, recruit assistants and upgrade the shop. Be careful though – some shady individuals may want to steal your precious wares!

Meet the villagers

Getting to know Rynoka’s residents and understanding the needs of customers is crucial. Some folks may have special quests for you, requesting rare items and offering handsome rewards in return.

Craft & enchant

Crafting and enchanting system is essential for your progression. Interacting with the villagers is the way to craft new armors, weapons and enchant existing equipment. This creates a great deal of flexibility and spices up the way the equipment is used.

Get the loot

While visiting other worlds, collect valuable resources, weapons, armors, treasures and peculiar artifacts. Then, manage acquired loot using unique inventory-based abilities.

Fight with style

Defeating various enemies and bosses, revel in the challenging and deep combat mechanics. The depth of combat depends on the interactions between weapons, abilities, enemies and secondary effects of items. Feel comfortable developing your own battling style.

Open the gates

Mob wars minecraft. Gates lead to different worlds. Each run is unique and forces you to take some smart decisions. You never know what you will encounter next – that’s why you have to be prepared for everything.

Moonlighter is an action RPGindie game developed by Spanish indie studio Digital Sun and released for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on May 29, 2018.^[1][2][3][4] A Nintendo Switch version was released on November 5, 2018.^[5]

Gameplay[edit]

Moonlighter has the player manage their shop during the day and go exploring at night. Shop keeping involves managing goods and receiving money, which the player can invest to upgrade the town and add services like a potion-maker and a blacksmith. These town upgrades allow the player to craft weapons, armor, and health potions, hire a part-time worker to sell things during the day, as well as upgrade the characters' equipment. At night, the player can explore dungeons and confront hordes of enemies, which drop loot upon defeat; loot can also be found in chests once the player clears a room. The game is divided by 4 different dungeons, the Golem, Jungle, Desert, and Tech dungeons. This game has received appraisal from many famous video game players, such as Zach Frank. ^[4][2][6][7]Tasty blue online.

Reception[edit]

Moonlighter received 'generally favorable' according to review aggregatorMetacritic.^{[8][9][10][11]} It won the 'Best Indie Game' award of GDC 2018,^[12] and was nominated for 'Fan Favorite Indie Game' and 'Fan Favorite Role Playing Game' at the Gamers' Choice Awards,^[13] and for 'Most Fulfilling Community-Funded Game' at the SXSW Gaming Awards.^[14] However, it was ranked as the fifth blandest game of 2018 by Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw of Zero Punctuation, who called it 'a painfully generic pixel art dungeon crawler whose one unique gameplay idea had all the depth of a Netflix crime documentary.'^[15]

References[edit]

1. ^'Moonlighter (IGN)'. IGN. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
2. ^ ^abMacLeod, Riley (May 29, 2018). 'Moonlighter Lets You Run A Shop By Day And Kill Monsters By Night'. Kotaku. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
3. ^Frushtick, Russ (May 31, 2018). 'Moonlighter beginner's guide'. Polygon. Retrieved May 31, 2018.
4. ^ ^abWood, Austin (May 29, 2018). 'Delightful shopkeeping action RPG Moonlighter is out today'. PC Gamer. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
5. ^Romano, Sal (October 16, 2018). 'Moonlighter for Switch launches November 5'. Gematsu. Retrieved October 16, 2018.
6. ^Hancock, Patrick (May 28, 2018). 'Review: Moonlighter'. Destructoid. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
7. ^'Moonlighter (Rock, Paper and Shotgun)'. Rock, Paper, Shotgun. Retrieved May 29, 2018.
8. ^ ^ab'Moonlighter for PC Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved March 30, 2019.
9. ^ ^ab'Moonlighter for PlayStation 4 Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
10. ^ ^ab'Moonlighter for Xbox One Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved September 11, 2018.
11. ^ ^ab'Moonlighter for Switch Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved December 22, 2018.
12. ^Game Informer staff (May 25, 2018). 'The Best Indie Games Of GDC 2018'. Game Informer. Retrieved May 25, 2018.
13. ^Glyer, Mike (November 19, 2018). '2018 Gamers' Choice Awards Nominees'. File 770. Retrieved January 8, 2019.
14. ^Trent, Logan (February 11, 2019). 'Here Are Your 2019 SXSW Gaming Awards Finalists!'. South by Southwest. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
15. ^Croshaw, Ben 'Yahtzee' (January 2, 2019). '2018's Best Worst and Blandest'. The Escapist. Retrieved January 3, 2019.

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