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Play Overview
Moonstone Island (2023) is a creature-collecting simulation game where you build a farm and get caught up in an unexpected adventure. Play involves exploring, gathering resources, meeting nearby villagers, and finding a place to call your home. Building up your farm and relationships is part of the fun, but the real draw is the deckbuilding combat you can master with the creatures you find along the way.
Set in a series of sky islands, you play an adventurer looking to complete your Alchemy training. On the surface, with pixilated graphics, it looks like a simple life simulator. However, players are soon drawn to the challenging combat. Your creatures have unique abilities, attacks and powers. In this way, you pair creatures together to deal the most damage and have the highest chance of winning. Along with the daily grind of cultivating, you also get to explore the town, meet people who need your help and go on quests to dangerous environments.
As you progress, you learn more about the world and how you can affect it. Success requires you to explore your surroundings and venture deeper into the wilderness to defeat harder opponents. If things get too challenging, you can opt for a playstyle that fits. For example, focusing on farming instead of tackling the vast number of creatures.
The result is a game that is less about farming wealth and more about the varied creatures you can train and master. There is a surprising amount of depth both to the combat and the lives of the characters you meet and befriend.
Our examiner, Will Oster, first checked Moonstone Island 4 weeks ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 3 weeks ago.
Set in a series of sky islands, you play an adventurer looking to complete your Alchemy training. On the surface, with pixilated graphics, it looks like a simple life simulator. However, players are soon drawn to the challenging combat. Your creatures have unique abilities, attacks and powers. In this way, you pair creatures together to deal the most damage and have the highest chance of winning. Along with the daily grind of cultivating, you also get to explore the town, meet people who need your help and go on quests to dangerous environments.
As you progress, you learn more about the world and how you can affect it. Success requires you to explore your surroundings and venture deeper into the wilderness to defeat harder opponents. If things get too challenging, you can opt for a playstyle that fits. For example, focusing on farming instead of tackling the vast number of creatures.
The result is a game that is less about farming wealth and more about the varied creatures you can train and master. There is a surprising amount of depth both to the combat and the lives of the characters you meet and befriend.
Our examiner, Will Oster, first checked Moonstone Island 4 weeks ago. It was re-examined by Jo Robertson and updated 3 weeks ago.
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Play Style
This is an Adventure, Collecting and Communication game with Battle, Role-Play and Simulation elements. This is a single-player game.
You can play this game in the following styles:
Duration
Play Time: This game will take between 33 hours and 40 hours to complete. This is a game you can pour hours into if you wish. The open-ended approach to mastering the farming and combat side of the game means that total play time will vary greatly.
Benefits
This game is good if you want to:
Age Ratings
No blood is shown when battling creatures.
Skill Level
9+ year-olds usually have the required skill to enjoy this game. Patience is key for younger players to enjoy the game. You need to have the resilience to keep working at your farm, even when setbacks come. There are a lot of systems to understand and some more action-focused elements to deal with too.
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Game Details
Release Date: 20/09/2023, updated in 2024
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Adventure, Collecting, Communication (Battle, Role-Play and Simulation)
Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Developer: Moonstone Game (@Moonstone_Game)
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