Moonstone Island
Fair · RPG · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 30.9h
- Value
- $0.65/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 6 and Oct 19, at about $4.99 (75% off). Calls like this were right 80% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 56 days apart.
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 55% ($8.99)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 75% ($4.99)
- Last discount ended
- 25 days ago
Watch it for a saleSources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 460 / Radeon HD 5850. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Moonstone Island is a creature-collecting life-sim set in an open world with 100 islands to explore. Make friends, brew potions, collect Spirits, and test your strength in card-based encounters to complete your Alchemy training!
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
May 2026 is where it bottomed out, at $4.99. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 30 in the 3 years tracked, about 4 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 6 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 86 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Littlewood ($14.99, scores 88) beats it on value, while it beats Planet Centauri ($14.99, scores 34).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 30 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2023 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 50 percent of the 359 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 30.9 hours; clearing it takes 65, which is 2.1 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
41% start to <1% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
91 players online when we last checked, on Sep 29, 13:47 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
I liked the art style. That's about it. The game wants to be everything. Deck builder, creature capture/collector, farming sim, social/dating sim. The first few hours are okay but then as you go on playing, you realize there isn't much to it. The story is predictable and extremely basic. At first, you think it's gonna be some grand adventure or something along the lines of Kiki's Delivery Service but then after the...
This sucks to say, but I should have listened to the mixed reviews. The game isn't bad, just uninspired, mechanically shallow, and doesn't *feel* right to play. Combat doesn't have the requisite complexity to engross you like card battlers on PC/paid mobile games. The villagers all feel very one-note, an annoyingly enthusiastic caricature of young people that you would see in corporate media. The overworld is slow...
I read reviews before playing games and some people are just not correct about some things or feel entitled to certain things in games. This is a good game. I definitely recommend it. I like that its like Stardew Valley but with more magic and things to do. Since it doesn't focus on one type of style I can see this being very difficult to balance. Especially with the card factor during fights. They have done a great...
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
Cite this score
Moonstone Island scores 66/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1658150/moonstone-islandReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 27, price as of Oct 1.
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