By Moonlight

By Moonlight

SugarHyped · February 20, 2019 · Free to Play, Casual, Indie, Visual Novel, RPG

By Moonlight is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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About By Moonlight

~ A Comedic Mystery Visual Novel with Relationship Building ~

Play as a paranormal investigator hired by the paranormal to investigate!

A series of events in which you search for a headless horseman's missing head before the night is over.

Features:

- 5 Different relationship routes
- Customizable player name + pronouns
- Plenty of bad ends
- A ton of locations to explore!

- Please give game a couple of minutes to load on first start up -

Game twitter @by_moonlight_vn
Creator twitter @sugarhyped4real

Extra content (DLC) is available to buy through a link in the game page, which you can access through a box to the right - "Visit the website"

DLC 1: ($3)
All soundtrack, pixel art, and character intro cards

DLC 2: ($5)
All CGs, backgrounds, and 27 pages of behind the scenes + all of the above (DLC 1)

DLC 3: ($8)
All character sprites and photoshop files, route events + all of the above (DLC 1 and 2)

By Moonlight — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

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

Recommended Feb 5, 2024
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10 found this helpful
Not recommended Jan 3, 2025
By Moonlight is not a game, it's an e-book that's been dumped on Steam masquerading as a game. As a visual/interactive novel, this doesn't feature any notable gameplay, it's just a lot of clicking through badly written dialogue that would never have been accepted or published in print, which poses the question, "How did something this badly written end up on Steam?". When someone hoping to become an author is unable to get published in print, they spend $100 and dump their high school fan-fiction onto Steam, under the guise of a game. This is a godawful "mystery romance" fanfiction about the developers imaginary boyfriend, as far as I can tell. The writing is in fact even worse than the painfully bad drawings slapped out on "My First Wacom Tablet" or whatever hellish device was responsible for the terrible artwork here. Visual novels/e-books are tedious at best... imagine the best novel you ever read, be that Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy or 2001: A Space Odyssey or Twilight (if you have terrible taste in literature), but then translate that to a format where the words dribble out and you have to click your mouse every time you wanted to read the next sentence, instead of j…
4 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 6, 2025
Игра By Moonlight – это атмосферное и медитативное приключение, идеально подходящее для тех, кто ищет что-то расслабляющее и загадочное. Визуальный стиль, выполненный в приглушенных тонах и с упором на игру света и тени под лунным светом, завораживает и создает ощущение таинственности. Геймплей сосредоточен на исследовании окружения и решении несложных головоломок, что позволяет полностью погрузиться в атмосферу. Саундтрек, состоящий из спокойных и мелодичных композиций, отлично дополняет визуальный ряд и усиливает эффект погружения. Сюжет, хоть и не отличается особой сложностью, рассказывает трогательную историю о взаимопомощи и преодолении трудностей. Однако, у игры есть и минусы. Некоторым игрокам геймплей может показаться слишком простым и медленным. Кроме того, продолжительность игры относительно невелика, и её можно пройти за несколько часов. В целом, By Moonlight – это приятный инди-проект, который стоит внимания, если вы цените атмосферу, красивый визуальный стиль и не ищете сложного геймплея. Это прекрасный способ расслабиться и отвлечься от повседневной суеты.
Recommended Mar 17, 2024
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Recommended Mar 1, 2024
very fun, relaxing and cute ^_^
Recommended Jun 4, 2023
Charming and cute with a nice art style! Needs more mystery and plot build-up, felt like characters were introduced too quickly, with too many bad endings before I got to learn more about each character or the world around me.

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