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As a chosen hero in a moonless land, explore, fight, and make choices across five days that shape your legend—alone or in co-op.
Released 10 Mar 2016
Explore a Moonless World
Shape Your Star Legend
Survive Five Days
Play alone or with friends! A co-op personality test about exploring an ancient, occult world in 5 days. How will you be remembered?
Developed by Kitfox Games · Published by Kitfox Games
When the moon vanishes over Issaria, monsters spread across the land and war threatens within five days. Play as one of the Moon’s chosen heroes, alone or with up to three others, and set out to investigate the crisis.
Explore randomly generated regions, visit villages and dungeons, meet characters, and take on encounters while fighting hostile creatures. At camp, build your stats; vendors offer abilities, and seven classes provide different combat styles, from shapeshifting to ranged attacks and support.
Your actions and decisions shape your hero’s reputation and affect how characters and the world respond. Each run adds a legend to the sky’s constellations, while repeated playthroughs reveal more characters, locations, stories, and outcomes.
Reviews that praise Moon Hunters often highlight playing co-op with friends, its atmospheric art and music, and the appeal of making a hero whose deeds become part of the game’s mythology. Some also enjoy discovering new encounters across repeated runs. Other players find those runs grow repetitive, and opinions differ on the combat and how much variety the game sustains.
Create your own legend in a 1 to 4 player co-operative personality test! Explore a mystical Mesopotamian-inspired world that's different every time you play.
The Steam version includes the free expansion, Eternal Echoes, with a new snowy tribe, seventh character class, and a new constellation meta-game system, complete with a final boss and endless arena mode.
When the moon does not rise over Issaria, monsters infest the land and cause chaos. You must set out alone or with the other chosen children of the Moon to solve the mystery and restore balance. You have only 5 days before King Mardokh and the Sun Cultists declare war.
Multiple playthroughs uncover characters, conflicts, and decisions. Each of the five tribes responds differently to the crisis and looks for different qualities in their heroes.
Every action and choice you make contributes to your legend as a constellation in the night sky. Future generations will build upon the mythology you create. How will you be remembered?
Build your mythology: Your actions and decisions grow into your reputation, changing how the world reacts to and remembers you.
A mystical journey: Different locations and landmarks each have their own potential to help or hinder adventurers.
Revive your old heroes: Honor your past heroes, and test their strength against the new final boss or endless arena
Local co-op: Playing alone is fine, but team up with others to overcome the hardest challenges!
Great for parties: Each playthrough is less than an hour, allowing people to play together in one sitting.
Different every time: With a randomly generated world and adventure levels, with different upgrades at each vendor, there's always something new to find.
Familiars: Find various animal companions to help you on your journey.
Seven unique character classes offer a variety of gameplay styles:
Spellblade: dodge and weave with quick melee attacks
Witch: heavy thrusts and a blood beam keeps enemies at bay
Ritualist: dual-stick shooting and enemy manipulation
Druid: shape-shifting into wolf form
Sun Cultist: high damage, but friendly fire (literally)
Songweaver: support through creative use of melodies
Snowdancer: high mobility and freezing damage
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Steam Deck | Playable |
| Achievements | 47 |
| Age ratings |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | Moon Hunters supports 1 to 4 players in co-operative play. Store text explicitly states 1 to 4 player co-op and local co-op, and Steam features list shared/split screen co-op. Reviews also report online co-op and later-added LAN multiplayer, though online stability is described inconsistently. |
| Multiplayer & mods | No multiplayer mods are mentioned. Reviews state the developer patched in LAN multiplayer after Unity server shutdowns, but this is an official update, not a mod. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 62/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
