Moonless Moon

Moonless Moon

Worth it · Narrative · 2024

Steam Deck Verified

The verdict

BUY IT.

Worth it at $3.99, the lowest Steam price we have tracked since Aug 2024.

Length
1.9h 2.2h to 100%
Value
$2.10/hr
Reviews
90% of 342 positive
No price makes it a BANGER.

Full price

Fair$9.99

Today

−60%Worth it
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Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

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

Raising the score
Engagement52% finish
How far players actually get (achievements), a top-end bonus
Holding it back
Value$2.10/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set That is today's sale price. Normally $5.26/hr
Reviews90% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 88% after the small-sample adjustment
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 301 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

When night falls, she wanders into another world... Moonless Moon is a text-based adventure game following a girl as she travels through a variety of different worlds.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was August 2026. It has been discounted 18 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart.

Value puts it in the top 3 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Buddy Simulator 1984 ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Heaven's Vault ($24.99, scores 58).

More about Moonless Moon

Steam's global achievement data puts 52 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 301 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026.

It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 1.9 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.

The drop-off

78% start to 52% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements

What players say

Moonless Moon is a quietly evocative narrative experience developed by Kazuhide Oka and published by KAMITSUBAKI STUDIO in collaboration with yokaze, and it stands apart by treating interactivity as a vehicle for mood, reflection, and poetic resonance rather than challenge or spectacle. From the outset, the game makes its intentions clear: this is not a story driven by conflict or mechanical mastery, but by...
xxadonisxxRecommendedafter 10hDec 2025Read on Steam
2 more reviews
A really interesting and slightly surreal story with a great premise. Loved the art, music and cutscenes as well, although I didn't really get the point of the riddles, and would have preferred just a standard VN format. I was also hoping the story would be a little longer or have a sequel. But overall, still a great game that I'll have to come back to in order to get all the other endings.
avalindaRecommendedafter 2.4h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam
By no means perfect but a beautiful story about dreams, worlds, nostalgia, escapism, coming-of-age, and the connections we make with the world and the people in it.
harry.xiong22Recommendedafter 3.0hAug 2026Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Moonless Moon scores 77/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2951340/moonless-moon
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Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperKazuhide Oka
PublisherKAMITSUBAKI STUDIO
GenreNarrative
Released2024
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12