Yi and the Thousand Moons

Yi and the Thousand Moons

David Su · 2017 · Adventure, Indie, Music, Relaxing, Great Soundtrack

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About Yi and the Thousand Moons

Yi and the Thousand Moons is a short video game musical written and developed by David Su. Through the course of several original interactive songs, featuring a full cast and live band, the game weaves a story of the archer Yi's journey to save her village.

Darkness is expanding, and the gods plan to combat it by harvesting moonlight. They want the legendary archer Yi to shoot the moons down, but the villagers have warned her that the moons are what protect the earth from stardust. Help Yi rescue her village from catastrophe!

Features

  • A unique interactive musical experience in which all the levels are songs to be played through (in both senses of the word!)
  • Seven original songs and six preludes composed by David Su, starring a full cast and live band
  • Play as Yi, a legendary archer who has been commanded by the gods to shoot down all of the moons
  • Enter a world in which all your interactions with characters occur through music

Starring:
Dominique Star as Yi
Laila Smith as Villager Qing
Magnus Ferguson as Villager Wen
Reid Jenkins as Villager Zhi
Wesley Kwok as God Shui
Yuyu Feng as God Mu
Gabriel Zucker as God Huo

Additional Musicians:
Siddhu Anandalingam (saxophones)
Reid Jenkins (violin)
Gabriel Zucker (guitar)

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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Dec 20, 2024
Feels and sounds like a rough draft but the core idea is cool so props for that. Also it takes like no time to play. Also ALSO it has easy to get achievements if you're into that sort've thing.
3 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 3, 2025
Yi and the Thousand Moons
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Recommended Jul 14, 2026
i don't think i understood anything, but i did have a blast listening to the soundtrack
Not recommended Nov 5, 2025
I got this dirt cheap due to a coupon (those were cool, I miss them), but still cannot recommend this on good faith if you're looking for a game. The music is above par and if I was on a music rating site I'd give it good marks, but the game... is barely there. Not only have I played longer free walking sims (with more "mechanics"), but this really "tricks you" into thinking there'll be more substance than there is due to how it's structured. Avoiding any concrete spoilers, it's almost funny how there's an "interlude" when the final two songs have you similarly doing basically nothing to progress and last almost the same "length" (the instrumentals loop between sung sections). I don't want to presume anything, but it does feel like any attempt at making a proper musical game and not just an album with an interactive visualizer fell through after the first three songs.
Recommended Jan 19, 2025
A short and sweet experience. The soundtrack as a musical is a very cool idea which i would love to see in a more ambitious project.
Recommended Nov 26, 2024
play it high. fun short trippy visual/music game

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