‘Moonstone Island’ is a Creature-Accumulating Life Sim

Moonstone Island is a slice of life journey recreation the place you’ll be able to fly to dozens of islands to assemble native oddball creatures, develop gardens, and romance the locals.

Moonstone Island is a large recreation with quite a bit to discover. You get to fly between a number of islands, discovering locations and attending to know the locals throughout your 12 months away from residence. These totally different islands have themes to them, sources which might be particular to the realm, and critters you can accumulate.

Creature assortment is finished by way of card-based battles when a creature collides with the participant. You choose your playing cards in a turn-based mini-game, trying to trigger the opposite creature to faint earlier than yours does. You’ll be able to catch those which have fainted, and likewise make your monster stronger alongside the way in which. In the case of amassing your little creatures, you’ll be able to retailer a few of them in a big constructing, feeding them and taking them out if you need to battle with them.

There may be additionally an enormous relationship side to the sport, which jogs my memory a little bit of Stardew Valley. You may give presents and attempt to speak (or flirt) with these characters. When you do effectively at catching their curiosity, you would possibly end up on a date the place that you must go to a selected island to satisfy up along with your potential love. If you find yourself fainting or dropping monitor of time, you would possibly find yourself standing somebody up.

I solely received the prospect to play a glimpse of Moonstone Island, however I noticed sufficient of the sport for it to actually catch my curiosity. In case you are somebody who likes slice of life video games and titles like Stardew Valley, you will see that your self sinking far too many hours into this recreation, too.



Moonstone Island is at the moment in growth, however within the meantime, you’ll be able to add it to your Steam Wishlist.

Jupiter Hadley

Jupiter is a prolific indie recreation journalist, writing for Metro UK, Large Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and lots of extra, all with a deal with smaller indie gems. She covers 1000’s of recreation jams and indie video games on her YouTube channel, letting each recreation have a second within the highlight. She runs indiegamejams.com, a calendar of all the recreation jams occurring on this planet, judges many jams and occasions. Jupiter can be the Adept Video games Wizard at Armor Video games.