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Tales from The Dancing Moon

Tales from the Dancing Moon is a mystery adventure game set in a world inspired by portal-fantasy novels and UK culture. After the events of a shadow-beast invasion on a seaside town, complete villager quests and find hidden diaries to understand your role in this mysterious character-driven story.

$17.99 June 19, 2025

By DjMonkey

Windows Controller: full
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Tales from The Dancing Moon - DjMonkey. Popular. Released June 19, 2025
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Overview

About this game

Play the first Act for free!

Download the demo to play through Act 1 of the story and side quests that give you a sense of how the game plays. The demo is also limited to the season of Spring. All your saves and achievements are carried across if you decide to purchase the full game.


About the Game

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?

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.

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