Reviews for Pixel Moon

[jetstream8]

I really liked this game! Very relaxing :)
Tough at first, but I like that. Real farming and ranching is hard work! I love what you did with the graphic limitations. I'm very impressed! I planted every seed at least once just to see what their growing process looked like, lol. Also, the music is pleasant and has a nice "farmy" country feel to it.

For anyone having trouble, I planted some wheat but mainly wound up trekking out to the dock with full stamina so I could catch 10 fish. After selling all that (at the store, place with the purple sign), I bought the 2 chickens from the animal shop and kinda just hung around the farm, walking back and forth picking up eggs. I didn't really do the crops much. I made enough money selling eggs, some more fish, and just a few crops to get the horse.

Rode the horse to the dock, fished a ton, sold the fish, bought the cow. Make sure to milk the cow after you wake up. If you forget and run out of stamina, you've missed the milk for that day. With the eggs, milk, and fishing trips, the money added up very very quickly. It'll say 99 in red once the icon's maxed out, but you can see how much money you really have by checking the green chest in your house.

I didn't do this til I was already straight financially, but another early strategy I'd suggest is buying the corn and carrot seeds so you can grow some crops to trade with the witch in the forest. If you have the horse, this'll be easier, but if not that's fine. Trade for the energy potion (the red one) and head to the dock (all the way to the right). Just keep fishing until the potion icon completely disappears (the bottle will be empty, but it'll still be working!)

Even without a horse and with the starter rod (slowest one), you should still be able to catch at least 60 fish. That's 240 farmer face coins right there.

Once you get into the hundreds, have fun buying whatever, going wherever, and doing whatever you want til you marry the blonde woman (in the first house, no sign) and beat the game!

Hope that helped, and, again, great job Satyre :D

Satyre responds:

Thank you very much for your review. You absolutely got the spirit of the game :)

[Francky5213]

It's really too long to beat the game...

Satyre responds:

Thanks for the review. Here's a tip: Try to get the vegetables for the potions, they will speed up the gameplay for 5 minutes. In that time you can also harvest the ingredients for the potions again plus another ones. This is one strategy. The other one is, like someone earlier mentioned to fish and upgrade the rod and fish again to get the horse.

That long gameplay is only at the beginning and was made on purpose, cause it's a more or less real simulation. The player has to feel the hard work by the time spend to achieve some goals. But I'll wait some time and check the comments. Maybe I'll speed up some elements later.

[NightOfIllusion]

I really like games like these. That said, this is a little too imbalanced.

Bases of all is that even with the ridicules long walk, fishing will make more money than any farming possible. With fishing making 40 gold per day, no farming, even with upgrade, can be more productive.

Seems the only way to make farming useful in the game is the decease the amount water needed, increase the amount farming goods are sold, and/or make the farming goods auto grow. I do see you had some hint of upgrading the water can, but did not have time to implement.

The problem with farming also made the potions useless. For example, by the time one grows enough to trade for speed potion, one can already make enough gold by fishing to buy the horse. Would it be possible to potions available cheaply by gold?

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Not sure how the wife helps. Also cannot seems to grow gourd?

It might seems a lot of negative points, but I do find the game enjoyable. Just pointing out some places for improvement. Hope it helps!

Satyre responds:

Thanks for the review. You mention the balancing. It was planned that the player has to walk long distances and has to work hard to achieve something, because it should be realistic. This is a small simulation about an experience I made. Working on a farm takes very long. By the way, it is also realistic, that you can catch fish and sell it directly, but growing plants takes more work. :) The wife let the animals be more productive, the cow gives milk the whole day, instead of just one milk per day, and the chickens will lay an egg when the wife touches them.

[AThousandAndOne]

It's very nice and i actually enjoyed this. 4 stars to you. (the music by the way is magical!)

Satyre responds:

Thanks, I'm glad you had fun :)

[StrikeDOMXI]

the start screen is a little bit weird, but that doesn't really affect the game play.
great game

Satyre responds:

Yes, true about the starting screen, but there was no space to write out the words :)