Moonshine Inc.
Klabater · 2022 · Immersive Sim, Building, Sandbox, Management, Story Rich
PC
Mixed61% · 174
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About Moonshine Inc.
We love moonshin’. There ain’t nothin’ better than good booze. In Appalachia, we know it well. We’ve got moonshine in our blood - in the case of some old-timers, maybe even literally. We love to talk about likker, make it, drink it all day long - and we love to share it too! How 'bout that, my gaming friend?
What’s your alcohol of choice? Do you maybe know how to make it? The process is a complex one, but with our know-how, we can shed some light on it, if you’d like; a little bit of moonlight - moonshine! - to guide you through the processes of fermentation, distillation, and bottling. But that’s too much to write about here - just check out the .gif below to see how we went about it.
Makin’ booze is pure fun, but if you’re makin’ money too - now that’s the way to live. However, for that, you need to be smart, manage your base right, and not piss off the boys in blue...
We tried to capture the life of a moonshiner as realistically as possible. You’ll be managing workers who’ll be crafting and maintaining your equipment, you’ll be buying ingredients, unlocking technologies, planning deliveries and finances, making sure you remain as discreet as possible - and deciding whom to trust and with whom to work.
In our game, you take on the role of a young moonshiner. You will progress through main missions, perform side quests, and run into road events during deliveries - the life of a moonshiner is ever-exciting and full of surprises...
If you’ll be prospering, you’ll get the chance to create and manage bases in five different regions, each with its own, more and more challenging missions. From your hometown mountains, through the thicket of a forest and mud of a swamp, all the way to civilization to conquer the big city.
How the story will end depends purely on you - there’ll be a pesky agent who’ll want to work with you, and there’ll be a corrupt governor that you can join. But you can also ignore them. You’re a free man, after all.
That’s how Moonshine Inc. came to be. Made for moonshiners, amateurs, dreamers, and newbies. Sit down, launch the game, enjoy crafting and running your business, and relax… after all, ain't nothin’ illegal ‘til you get caught!
- Sandbox mode with the choice of region, starting money, Police Alert on/off, speed of production and crafting, and discoverability of technologies and recipes
- a faithful reflection of the moonshine craft - fermentation and distillation based on chemical formulas behaving as natural processes
- a realistic recreation of an American moonshiner’s business, with all its challenges
- a rich story - 3 possible successful endings or a “Game Over” if caught by the authorities
- 5 regions - running the base in the mountains, forest, swamps, town, and city, with linear progression
- 70+ recipes - 15+ moonshines, 15+ whiskies, 20 brandies, 20+ vodkas
- 50+ ingredients - sugars, fruits, vegetables, and grains
- 35+ apparatuses - 17 distillation stills, 8 fermentation tanks, 5 post-distillation tanks, 7 pre-fermentation apparatuses, and more
- 26 fermentation and distillation technologies
- 37 main quests + Police Quests, side quests, and road events
- Original Soundtrack - get a Supporter Pack to download 19 tracks from the game’s OST
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A game about distilling and selling spirits sounds really great. Except this isn't a game as much as it is a menu-clicker simulator. All you do is click things in a menu. You don't get to walk around and look at or interact with the process. The entire game is spent clicking around in menus and waiting for timers. It got boring within the first 15 minutes. You don't pour ingredients into a vat. You don't inspect the fermentation to check that it's going well. You don't light the fire under the still and swap out jars as they fill. You just sit there and wait for the timer to run out. And the game tells you exactly how it will turn out before you've even made it. You don't drive the product to the customers. You click a button for that too and wait out a timer. That's the entire game. And it's just really tedious.4 found this helpful
I'm going to give Moonshine Inc. a hesitant thumbs up. I definitely had fun with it, though it does have some obvious flaws. The good: Experimenting with ingredients to find recipes is fun. The process is elaborate, which is good; there are lots of parameters to adjust and play with. The game systems pressure you to do things well, and not to go too crazy, but there are ways to get out of trouble. It's fun to watch over your moonshine enterprise and accumulate money; and the sandbox game has parameters to make it as easy or hard as you wish. The bad: Arranging devices in your hideout is interesting, but there's no depth; there's no reason to arrange them in any particular way, you can throw them down wherever. Every batch requires one fermentation apparatus and one distillation apparatus, and they're locked until the batch is done; this means that even if one process goes faster, you can't double up machines for more efficiency. You also can't clean/repair devices that are being "used", even if their step is done. So there's no feeling of constructing a factory; if you're looking for an automation game, this isn't it. As for the story...it goes along and just kind of ends. The ch…1 found this helpful
NEEDED TO BREW LONGER: The core idea is fun, if a little bit arcade-like, but unfortunately the amount of bugs this far post-launch is unacceptable. And once you have learned all the recipes and unlocked the best equipment, there is little to keep your interrest. Purchase on sale if you are interested in stilling, but otherwise can't recommend
the game wont let me go pass the main screen. there a bug. dont get unless u want to game that will make u mad cause it wont load
The concept is good, but the game quickly becomes repetitive and is riddled with bugs: 1. The crafting process doesn’t start; this can be fixed by saving and reloading the game or by turning on the worker’s camera; 2. The equipment crafting indicators disappear (as if nothing is happening); 3. When reloading the game, the crafting progress resets; 4. Old secondary quests reappear, but delivery doesn’t work to them (the goods just disappear). Conclusion: It’s not worth the money, even at a discount.
An instructive game on how to make the best types of whiskey. 8/10
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