

Tales from The Dancing Moon
DjMonkey · 2025 · Adventure, Interactive Fiction, Exploration, Story Rich, Mystery
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Positive88% · 34
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About Tales from The Dancing Moon
Tales from the Dancing Moon is a mystery adventure game inspired by portal-fantasy novels and UK culture, with a mix of casual life-sim and RPG gameplay.After the events of a shadow-beast invasion on the seaside town of Ïllisor, complete villager quests, live life with sandbox life-sim gameplay, and find 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?
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.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I usually wouldn't opt to play a game like this, randomly stumbled upon it and decided to give it a go, was so glad that I did! This game feels like an actual video game - it has its quirks and issues but nothing that breaks the game's immersion or experience. It has an amazing plot, interesting characters, a wealth of gameplay systems/loops that are simple and not forced on the player and the fact this is developed by one guy makes me appreciate this game so much more. TLDR - a game that's not AAA produced but is a AAA experience!4 found this helpful
I'm not sure where to start. Most games take awhile to grab your attention, or getting to know the characters is slow and tedious, but the quest line grabs your attention right away. And the quests are fun just enough effort to make it feel like a task, but not super difficult. And the music and the sound effects make the game really relaxing and enjoyable. I haven't gotten much into the crafting parts yet, I'm still in the beginning. But when I saw it had fishing, and farming and cooking, and quests and adventure, and a great story line, I had to try it. But it's not like those other farming games, or survival games that over complex and stressful, this is just the right amount of detail. It's just what I've been looking for! I really hope the developer expands more on this game, like the others reviews say, the areas feel a little small, and the way this is designed, it really wants to make you go exploring. This is a great game. And I feel like it's not getting the attention and ratings it deserves. I hope others will give it a try and leave some reviews. :D2 found this helpful
Quite a good farming/crafting game with a neat story to it. Some stuff was a bit too connected to the story for my taste but I have enjoyed it. To explain, I enjoy the most in farming sims when you can change the city/village as you play and this game delivered on it but the way you unlocked stuff to build was connected to the story in a way that made good sense but was overly concentrated to act 3, so before that there where a couple of buildings to build in act 2 and a lot of decorations starting from act 1. It makes sense but I had to wait a bit too much to fill empty sandbox space2 found this helpful
Great game if you like fetch quests. Otherwise, not good.1 found this helpful
The developer describes the game as a "life-sim RPG". Personally, I'd say it is a puzzle game with a story with some actually interesting ideas and surprising ending with some additional things you can do: build houses and decorate the interior, grow plants, fish, cook, make tea (yes, really!) and do quests not related to the story. You can keep playing after you've finished the main story. This is not the kind of game I normally play, but I have to say I was sucked in and couldn't stop playing although I got really frustrated at times (let's just say I am not the best at solving puzzles) and stopped playing for a while. I went back eventually every time though. There is a "main quest" that probably should take something like 25-50 hours depending how fast you play (it took me 50h because I am dumb). Anyway, try it out. You might like it and even if you don't, at least it isn't expensive (there are discounts now and then as well). Recommended!
I'm enjoying this, not too far in yet. I asked an AI chat to recommend me something similar to Brighter Shores and single player, this was a recommendation. So far I am seeing it, much more questing in this game which I enjoy. I'll share more the more I play.
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