Moonlighter is a game that tries to do multiple popular genres at once, however, it ends up doing neither especially well. The two main sections you flip through are the shop management and the dungeon-crawling rogue-like. Each of these are fun enough to go through but a lot of the time, you can just ignore the shop management and shove anything you don’t want into the sell section. This leaves a lot of the rewards you find in the dungeon feeling unrewarding and meaningless. The dungeon exploring and combat also felt pretty sloppy and sluggish but still was enjoyable enough to keep me wanting to go further and beat the game. One good thing is just how the game looks. The pixel art is done very well and each object feels like it had effort put into it. While trying to reach for a higher bar is great, it's pretty obvious how Moonlighter was stretched too thin with too many different ideas.

Reviewed on May 10, 2024


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