Mystical mercantile action-RPG Moonlighter has been selling like hotcakes – half a million copies, albeit split across several platforms. Clearly, selling magical capitalism is good business, so Digital Sun have announced the game’s first paid DLC, Between Dimensions, following on from a series of big free updates. The expansion will include a new interdimensional dungeon, new monsters in both old and new locations, and plenty of new gear to use or sell to other adventurers. To celebrate hitting that half-million mark, the game is also 40% off for today only.
Mystical mercantile dungeon crawl Moonlighter was a charmer when it launched, and developers Digital Sun have been hard at work expanding it ever since. Today’s free Friends & Foes update adds one big new feature (familiars that you can raise on your farm), and a bundle of all-new mini-bosses to tussle with. They’ve even found a couple ways to cram in even more lore and backstory. It’s the biggest update to the game yet, and ticks off the last of the boxes on their (initial) post-release roadmap. Take a peek at some of the new stuff in the trailer below. The game is also on sale.
>Games have, by and large made us into an insatiable, entitled bunch. We ve come to expect to be able to waltz into someone s home and take the bread right off their plate, chests in the woods were left just for us, and all wolves take their purses when they leave their den. There s a lot of stuff> in games, and always more of it than we need, especially if we start hoarding it just in case . Even though game worlds have grown, it doesn t seem to occur to us that this also means a steep rise in resources, and so we still treat a lot of our finds as priceless.
This is exactly the kind of feeling Moonlighter tries to counter. A procedurally generated dungeon means a plethora of a) monsters and b) stuff said monsters could carry, as well as c) random loot throughout. To stop you feeling as if you re just collecting stuff for the sake of collecting it, the key aspect of Moonlighter is your shop. It s where the name comes from — you re a shopkeeper moonlighting as an adventurer (or possibly an adventurer moonlighting as a shopkeeper).
