
City life is calling, and you're gonna love it here!* Move to a new apartment in the bustling city. Make friends, find work, and decorate your new home - all while working with the community to improve your neighbourhood. Welcome to Garland! *Apartment quality may vary, loving it not guaranteed.
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Moonlight in Garland is a cozy, open-ended life sim set in the bustling metropolis of Garland. Whether you’re growing houseplants or helping out your new neighbours, every day brings fun, friendships and the weird side of city-living.
📦 Unpack your boxes, find your people, and make the city of Garland your home.
Of course, every city has its challenges…
Can you handle the thrilling, edge-of-your-seat excitement of attending a monthly resident committee meeting?
Will you forge life long friendships through mildly questionable but well intentioned crimes?
Are you ready to better your local community by showing kindness and making small changes: to the extreme!?!
Do you like trains? Or anthropomorphic recycling bins?
💌 City life is calling, and you're going to love it here!*
*Apartment quality may vary. Loving it not guaranteed…
Authorised by the Garland City Council Tourism Department.

⚠️🛠️⚠️ Moonlight in Garland is a solo dev project made with love and tea. It's still in active development and your feedback helps shape the future of the city.
Check out the roadmap for more info! ⚠️🛠️⚠️

🌆 Move in!
Match your vibe to one of the four apartment buildings in town. Each building has its own unique storyline, apartment layouts, community events and problems quirks! As your life in Garland grows, let Ryan at Quality Real Estate help you with upgrading to a bigger space or even a different building… for a very reasonable fee.
💼 Get to work!
You’re gonna need a way to fund your extravagant new lifestyle, so consider taking on part-time jobs. Join the gig-economy as a delivery person, track down suspects as an ethically challenged private investigator or dabble in stock trading. If you have some spare time you can always sign up to the Council’s Recycling or Initiatives programs to earn cash for bigger community projects.
💖 Build deep connections!
City life can get lonesome so befriend or romance a diverse cast of 22 residents through relationship events and watch their stories unfold. Nothing brings people closer than accidentally stealing a helicopter together, right? With 18 romancable characters, customisable commitment and break up options (dump that pesky partner via sky writing!!) there’s heaps of ways to connect… or disconnect.
🌿 Get involved!
Clean up trash, scrub graffiti, pick wild herbs and gather pebbles to polish into crystals to make your neighbourhood beautiful. Someone’s gotta do it, and your local community is what you make of it.
⏰ Balance your time and energy!
Feeling tired from all that hard work? Try one of Dr Hannah’s specially formulated Buffins for that extra pep in your step! Feeling mentally drained? Take some time out to relax at your window and just watch the world go by. Manage your physical and mental energy to get the most out of every day.
🎨 Decorate your space!
Forget worrying about your security deposit in Garland! Grow houseplants, change your wallpaper, rearrange furniture and make your apartment feel like home!
🎉 Live that life!
Enjoy seasonal festivals, fish, photograph wildlife, contribute to the museum or just take life one day at a time. Cities grow and change, so as development continues you’ll find more things to love around every corner.
💖 See you in Garland!

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Languages: English**languages with full audio support
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
Definitely the best game I have played. The writing is amazing, pacing is perfect, and it is very reminiscent of the flash games from the early 2000s. It is giving main protagonist in the city energy, and I cannot wait to play it more! Thank you for making this game! Also! Bonus: No bugs and quick loading screens :) You did a great job!
Started playing this game a couple of days ago and I'm hooked! The design, exploration and detail of this game is so special. It's been really fun exploring this amazing little world! I put in a bug report and got a personal response back which was so sweet <3 Even at this early access stage of the game, it's super fun to experience and can't wait to see what's next for this beautiful gem!
I've enjoyed playing this since the day the demo was released. I really like how relaxed it is, meaning you can go at your own pace and notice board quest are completely optional. I can't wait to see what is next.
Oh I'm in love with this game! :3 it's just right for me! it's like stardew valley meets devil wears prada hehe and all the little updates that the creator has been adding is just oh so beautiful, i cant wait for more!
It's an adorable and well thought out labor of love. Still quite a few glitches however there are ways to ensure your gameplay is pleasurable. My only complaint is that the energy bar goes down way too quickly with walking (especially with the map size!). Also, inventory management is a bit frustrating. Looking forward to future updates ~
A very fun and cute game! I LOVE the pastel coloring and the entire twist on a life sim!!
Very good cosy game! It is definitely one of my favourite games even considering it is in early access. Any bugs are easy to report and have always been sorted with each update. The game itself is fun, relaxing and the characters are super charming. There are a lot of things to do and explore. I definitely recommend this game!!
It is cute so far I always wanted a city theme life sim game! I can't wait to see the future updates <3
Moonlight in Garland is a refreshing take of the cozy game genre that I have really found myself enjoying, especially lately. The dev is very active and always putting updates out, fixing bugs and adding more content regularly. I purchased the game in a much newer state and it has already improved a ton! I still have lots more to explore with the current content and I know there will be more coming which is super exciting. It's also very easy to report bugs on the discord, and the dev will fix save files and is otherwise very helpful. Looking forward to even more fun in the future! It is still in early access and there is still some work to do and some bugs to fix, but it is very much worth the price in my opinion.
As another reviewer has said, I wish there was a neutral option for recommending/not recommending. This game is full of potential, but also buggy. Yes, I know it's in EA still, and the developer works hard on the bugs and making this work. I first bought this a year ago, and played a few times (didn't get far because of how it was functioning then), and just picked this up again yesterday. While some functions are much better than a year ago, there are new ones to go along with it. I swear the mental energy is a lot harder to keep up than before. I wish there was a function to turn that off, to be honest. As I said, this game is full of potential. I love the idea of starting over in a big city, the opposite of the life-sims I tend to play where you move away from the big city to start over. The art style is cute and there is plenty for you to do... if you have enough physical and mental energy to do so. I will keep periodically checking in on this game, and I hear leaving early access is on the current roadmap. I am looking forward to seeing the complete game.
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