Over The Moonlight

Over The Moonlight let's players witness an enclosed, magically changing environment. Blank canvases surrounded by colour-changing flowers are waiting to be painted on. The game's atmosphere is enchanting, but its execution sadly falls flat on delivering that experience in an undisturbed manner. Visually abstract but still homely due to its warm colours and soothing music, Over The Moonlight aims to offer a refuge for the mind. Unfortunately though, the game feels unfinished partly due to its underwhelming performance but most notably because of many little problems regarding its gameplay. The hitboxes and controls don't feel accurate and some graphic phenomena are simply irritating. The brush strokes while painting are too unwieldy to be enjoyable, which, in a way, degrades the act into rough colouring. Amplifying this is the lack of ingame options, a menu or even a means to freely close the game: Over The Moonlight only closes itself as soon as the player reaches the end. The intentions are good, but stripping a game down to its bare gameplay essence requires an overall polish, which Over The Moonlight unfortunately doesn't provide. It may be worth a try, but I ultimately can't quite enjoy it to the extent it's intended.

Very peaceful and calming, the sweet soft music with the slow changing color helped but me into a very happy mood i was excited to move on to each island and see the the new color I could draw with, This game is great for a relaxing time and giving yourself a nice calm place to think. This game i am absolutly keeping in my library

Interesting concept, and free! However, I can't recommend it in its current state. Here's why... 1. There is no menu. I literally had to alt-tab out to close it. 2. This game would be much better if the painting canvas was larger. MUCH better. 3. It could use some tooltips for some interactions. Example: getting in the boat and steering it. 4. The boat moves too slowly. I understand it's supposed to be peaceful but it was obnoxiously slow. There were times I wasn't even sure it was moving at all. I have an i7 and a Nvidia GTX1060 6GB so it ran at like 145 fps the whole time so my computer wasn't an issue for any of the things I mentioned. Again, this is a great concept and I don't mean to be rude but a little constructive criticism could push it past "great concept" and into "great game" territory.

Nice little peaceful art game, No real purpose in all honestly nor is it that long. SO take your time with each island you get to :) Play this after a raging game I promise it will help.

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Played about 10 minutes, and its over. interesting concept though. I think that a little tutorial would be nice, it took me a bit to figure out the controls

If you have some free time, try it, just for fun. Graphics: ★★★★☆ Sound: ★★★★★ Gameplay: ★★☆☆☆ Music: ★★★★★ Overall: ★★★★☆

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