Tales from The Dancing Moon
Tales from the Dancing Moon is a casual story-driven RPG that has elements of life-simulation, crafting, building and survival. All layered on top of a thread of mystery. Presented with a detailed isometric style, inspired by classic role-playing games.
You wake up to find yourself in a strange world. A local Innkeeper finds you and helps you make your way to the nearby village of Illisor – a ruined place that’s recovering from a recent attack of deadly shadow-beasts.
You spend your time at The Dancing Moon Inn where you assist the citizens in rebuilding their village. During your stay you discover that you weren’t the only stranger passing through this village recently. You begin to unravel the mystery that they left behind.
Will you discover your purpose here? And will you find a way back home?
Character Customisation
Customisation options allow you to become whoever you wish to be in this story.
Story
Discover the lore of Illisor by interacting with NPCs, completing quests, forging relationships and reading notes and books scattered around the town.
Crafting and village-building
Flexible and robust object placement tools allow you build the medieval town you’ve always wanted to build.
Hone your skills
Skills like farming, crafting, fishing, and swordsmanship will help you complete the various tasks given to you in Illisor.
Photo-mode
Show off your town and other stunning photography skills with a free-camera mode that has lens and filter options.
Game Discussion
Steam User 10
I don’t know exactly what made me attracted to the game but it didn’t let go and so I bought it and it surprises me that there are only 23 reviews at this point.
I so enjoyed this game. The story is a little piece of art. Huh, what’s this tire doing here?
Find those journals, be creative in cooking, buy and decorate your home, decorate town, go fish on a lake, sell your crops, do extra quests for extra cash, fast travel or skip time when you’re too eager to continue, give a blob a burger, make magical teas, enjoy seasons… There’s so much there…
My gameplay was about 20 hours but I stayed a bit longer for some achievements and for buying every piece of decoration I could get. It’s the first game ever that could make me do that, stay to decorate. It’s for sure a long, long time ago that I felt a bit sad a game was over.
This game deserves way more attention.
Anyway, I’m glad I found this one.
Steam User 1
This game has a lot of potential but is very bare bones at the moment. Considering it's a solo project, it will probably take a while to be fleshed out into something worthwhile, but it's a good idea to buy it if you want to support a developer doing good work.
Steam User 0
Quite a good farming/crafting game with a neat story to it. Some stuff was a bit too connected to the story for my taste but I have enjoyed it. To explain, I enjoy the most in farming sims when you can change the city/village as you play and this game delivered on it but the way you unlocked stuff to build was connected to the story in a way that made good sense but was overly concentrated to act 3, so before that there where a couple of buildings to build in act 2 and a lot of decorations starting from act 1. It makes sense but I had to wait a bit too much to fill empty sandbox space
Steam User 0
The developer describes the game as a "life-sim RPG". Personally, I'd say it is a puzzle game with a story with some actually interesting ideas and surprising ending with some additional things you can do: build houses and decorate the interior, grow plants, fish, cook, make tea (yes, really!) and do quests not related to the story. You can keep playing after you've finished the main story.
This is not the kind of game I normally play, but I have to say I was sucked in and couldn't stop playing although I got really frustrated at times (let's just say I am not the best at solving puzzles) and stopped playing for a while. I went back eventually every time though.
There is a "main quest" that probably should take something like 25-50 hours depending how fast you play (it took me 50h because I am dumb).
Anyway, try it out. You might like it and even if you don't, at least it isn't expensive (there are discounts now and then as well).
Recommended!
Steam User 0
I usually wouldn't opt to play a game like this, randomly stumbled upon it and decided to give it a go, was so glad that I did! This game feels like an actual video game - it has its quirks and issues but nothing that breaks the game's immersion or experience. It has an amazing plot, interesting characters, a wealth of gameplay systems/loops that are simple and not forced on the player and the fact this is developed by one guy makes me appreciate this game so much more. TLDR - a game that's not AAA produced but is a AAA experience!
Steam User 0
Ok I really like the game so far, but a few things I’d like to ask. How do I sell my extra items? I also hope that maybe when you update again you can add new hairstyles and let us change eye color as well as maybe chance our starting outfit.
Steam User 0
The game is slow paced but I enjoyed it. The game is a good idea but the maps are small and there is very limited things you can do. I was hoping for a bit more content when i bought it so it would feel more like an RPG, but there was enough content to keep me occupied. Tales From The Dancing Moon is polished and I have not seeing many game breaking bugs.