Moonlight Peaks

This game has an interesting premise and basic structure but it's falling short in so many ways right now that it feels like an unfinished, buggy slog and it's certainly not worth the full price. Here's a non-exhaustive list of reasons why. - The transfer all button doesn't work - The Evernight Festival table freezes my game - Collecting too many items at once lags the game - Upgrading tools is extremely lackluster, only the final ones feels vaguely worth it and by then you don't need them anymore - Transformations feel equally unimpressive, generally adding very small amounts of new explorable map (that add no new mechanics) alongside the ability to collect items from certain spots - The barn only holds 4 animals and can't be upgraded to include auto-feeding/harvesting. There are 6 animals so you need at least two and it becomes tedious real fast - Item descriptions are non-existant, I had to go online to figure out what the museum buildings did and one of those items doesn't show their effective range - The watering can doesn't fully soak a tile immediately, it has a partial soak. This caused me to miss a lot of spots on rewatering especially around crops that otherwise block my vision - The mermaids want to have a traditional wedding where they "walk down the isle" and also they sleep in a bed on land. Huh? - If you catch a higher rarity fish or bug you can't give them to the museum, they have to be base level. I keep catching a skull fish with 1 star which is unusable - Upgrading your mana is essentially useless because you only recover a single mana point a day and the rest still has to come from consumables or doing yoga (which is also tedious to do on repeat just for mana) - The festival where everyone talks about their great costumes has no costumes - The seed sequencer is useless because you can buy any seed at any time and it doesn't work with tree seeds - The story moves forward very slowly and a lot of unlocks are stuck behind that story Alongside a bunch of visual bugs. That's not to say the game is bad, I think it has a lot of potential or I wouldn't have spent so much time figuring out what works and doesn't work. - It has a neat card game that I hope they do more with - The choices you make in dialogues can sometimes lead to different cutscenes entirely - Endless storage anywhere on your farm - You can actually sit on benches and chairs - Some of the writing is entertaining - They space out meeting the NPCs so I never felt overwhelmed - No more waiting for tools, you can just buy them outright - Broodje kaas I will keep an eye on the game to see how it develops and hopefully I can eventually change this review to a recommend.

Latest update (1.2.3) completely destroyed the game balance for me. It made the game too grindy, you can't earn enough money to afford upgrades in a reasonable amount of time. Instead of relaxing the game is now very stressful due to constant lack of money. Devs shot themselves in the knee with the last update, I can't recomment this game in it's current state.

I absolutely ADORE the slow pace of this game, where I'm not overwhelmed with quests and characters that need something from me. Moonlight Peaks, for me, has perfect pacing and introduces new features and abilities at a steady and reliable pace so I'm actually learning the mechanics instead of rushing through them and then forgetting all about it later. I've experienced a handful of visual bugs, but nothing that broke the game or interaction so it was just a little quirk to me personally. The characters so far have all been quite distinct and are pleasant enough to interact with. The character art, while beautiful, did put me off a bit at first with their fully rendered chibi baby faces, but you quickly get used to it. Will update my review in case something late-game is absolutely horrid, but so far I'm enjoying my time at Moonlight Peaks.

Avoid until the developers speed it up. It’s so slow, it’s like walking through treacle. Energy runs out very fast, pick up items on beach then sell….tedious. I expected more for the price. This feels very unfinished.

The pacing is weird, the dialogue is childish, there is nothing to work towards because everything is either useless or inefficient. If it were early access I'd be more forgiving, but this was a full release with a premium price. It desperately needed more time in development.

entretenido, pero le falta la traducción ofi al español

Several times now the devs nerfed selling prices of certain crops and artisan goods like fruit juice and mana wine. They only reverted a portion of these nerfs. A new round happened in the latest update. It makes the game unnecessarily grindy. It's a single player game. Why are you nerfing the balance to make it overly grindy? Don't bother with the game.