‘Moonstone Island’ is a Creature-Amassing 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 completely different islands have themes to them, assets which are particular to the world, and critters you can acquire.

Creature assortment is completed by means 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 may catch those which have fainted, and likewise make your monster stronger alongside the way in which. Relating to gathering your little creatures, you’ll be able to retailer a few of them in a big constructing, feeding them and taking them out while you wish to battle with them.

There may be additionally a giant relationship facet to the sport, which jogs my memory a little bit of Stardew Valley. You can provide items and attempt to discuss (or flirt) with these characters. For those who do nicely at catching their curiosity, you may end up on a date the place you could go to a selected island to satisfy up along with your potential love. If you find yourself fainting or dropping observe of time, you may find yourself standing somebody up.

I solely obtained the possibility to play a glimpse of Moonstone Island, however I noticed sufficient of the sport for it to essentially catch my curiosity. If you’re somebody who likes slice of life video games and titles like Stardew Valley, you will see your self sinking far too many hours into this recreation, too.



Moonstone Island is presently 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, Huge Boss Battle, AlphaBetaGamer, and plenty of extra, all with a deal with smaller indie gems. She covers hundreds 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 the entire recreation jams occurring on this planet, judges many jams and occasions. Jupiter can be the Adept Video games Wizard at Armor Video games.