Tales of the Moon

Overview

Cella34 describes Tales of the Moon in nine words: you play as a purple elf in a magical forest, have fun. That is the entire pitch, and the game earns the right to be that casual about itself.

It is point and click, built in GameMaker, and the appeal is exploration for its own sake. You click on things, things happen, the forest opens up a little more. Sessions run a few minutes, so it fits in the gaps of a day rather than demanding an evening, and it is designed around a single input: the mouse, with one-button accessibility support.

The reception backs it up. It sits at 4.6 from nearly 2,700 ratings, which is an unusually large sample for a game this small, and it still gets updates. A free build plays in the browser, the downloadable version is a 286 MB Windows zip, and the full game is sold on Steam and JAST. No generative AI was used.

Story

There is a forest. There is a moon. You are an elf and you are purple. The game is not going to sit you down and explain more than that, which is part of why it works.

Features

• Point-and-click exploration in a hand-drawn fantasy forest
• Short sessions, a few minutes at a time
• Mouse only, with one-button accessibility
• Playable in the browser or as a Windows download
• No generative AI was used
• Full version available on Steam and JAST

How to install

1. Click Download below and choose your platform.
2. Wait 10 seconds on the next page and click Get download link.
3. Extract the downloaded file with 7-Zip or WinRAR (on macOS, double click the file).
4. Open the extracted folder and run the game executable.
5. Scan every file with your antivirus before running it.