Tales from the Dancing Moon is a life-sim RPG set in a parallel universe inspired by UK culture and fantasy novels. After the events of a shadow-beast invasion on a seaside town, complete villager quests and collect hidden diaries to understand your role in this mysterious character-driven story.
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Positive (21) - 90% of the 21 user reviews for this game are positive.
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Dec 12, 2023
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Why Early Access?

“Tales from The Dancing Moon is an ambitious game developed by one developer, started during the COVID pandemic and created in a little home office in the UK.

Early-Access allows me to release the game in a “story-complete” state and further enables a relationship I wish to foster with a community of players. Direct feedback from players enables me to prioritise the parts that require a little more depth. This iteration loop will lead to what I will eventually consider to be a full game.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“My intention is to keep the game in Early Access for a few months (so not too long), but this can entirely be up to the feedback I get during the Early Access period!”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“During Early Access I aim to focus on stability and depth of the current features. This includes progressively adding more to the sandbox and customisation options, tying up loose ends on side-quests stories, and overall gameplay polish, bug-fixing and optimisation.

The end of the Early Access period should hopefully result in a full version that contains a polished game with a main story supported by a variety of side-quests and deep sandboxing features.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The Early Access version is what I am calling “story-complete”. It contains the main quest and additional side quests that takes the player from start-game to end-game. It tells the story that I ultimately want to tell, but would benefit from a bit more love towards the sandbox gameplay and customisation features.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“The price should increase once I reach a full version, but will still reflect the price typical for an indie game of this style and content developed by a solo developer.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“I have reached a point where the improvements I’d like to make during the Early Access period will be tailored towards player feedback and suggestions. I would love this game to grow based on a community of players investing their time with the game!

I actively read feedback on various social channels and I host a Discord server for the game - the community of players can voice their opinions and feedback on what they would like to see!”
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About This Game

Tales from the Dancing Moon is a casual life-sim RPG inspired by UK culture and fantasy novels.

After the events of a shadow-beast invasion on the seaside town of Ïllisor, you have the freedom of completing various villager quests, live life with sandbox gameplay, and finding collectable diaries to understand your role in this mysterious character-driven story.



From The Dancing Moon Inn to the Stoknel Swamp regions. Explore both hand-crafted and procedural zones with seasonal and weather effects, providing different moods to the game as time progresses.



Discover your role in this story as you complete a variety of quests and collect hidden diaries. Unravel the mystery of the missing teenagers who arrived before you and their entanglement between the tea-brewing Magisters and the deadly shadow-beasts.



Learn more about Ïllisor and it’s villagers by pursuing various activities like side-quests, farming, crafting and fishing. Help rebuild the town from the recent invasion and get them back on their feet!

Will you discover your purpose and find a way back home? Track down those pesky teenagers? Or will you simply enjoy your time staying at The Dancing Moon?

Key Features:

  • A character driven story inspired by young-adult and portal-fantasy stories. Told via quests and reading diaries scattered across the world.
  • A hybrid of RPG and life-sim with open-ended sandbox features.
  • Questing, farming, crafting, building, fishing, cooking, combat - just to name a few things you can do!
  • Season and weather effects.
  • Free object placement and village building systems.
  • Both hand crafted and procedural areas.
  • Photo mode with many lens and filter options.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10
    • Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1060/AMD RX 580 or equivalent.
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 3700 MB available space
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

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