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Moonlight Pulse
Teamwork matters most in this seamless, fantastical metroidvania within a living, breathing world. Realize each character's true potential to take down an invading force of overwhelmingly powerful parasites.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-15.
“I think it says a lot that, although I have some annoyances and misgivings about the enemies and navigation of this game, my net view on it was very positive. It's a short game, pretty challenging in some sections, but very well-designed. Lots of unique enemy types, and a slow…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“I got this game as a bundle and wasn't expecting much of it. But the more I play, the more I love it. It's an amazing Medroidvania/puzzle platformer. Highly Recommend.”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“Really hard to rate this game. Art is great, gameplay is good. Exploration isn't very rewarding. And I also feel like the balancing towards the end is just stupidly bad, no checkpoints and enemies hit very hard. Game is also very short, beat it in 4 hours. Sorry, but I have to…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Version 1.3.1 Release Notes
+ Fixed security vulnerability CVE-2025-59489 by upgrading Unity version to 6000.0.58f2 + Fixed some spelling mistakes.
Version 1.3.0 Release Notes
+ Updated Unity to 6000.0.43f1 + Removed Unity logo from the splash screen. + Added Linux build. + Fixed a bug where the game would be stuck in slow-motion when restarting during a particular boss fig
Version 1.2.1 Release Notes
+ Fixed a glitch where a game over wouldn't trigger under particular conditions while fighting the final boss.
Moonlight Pulse is now available in Simplified Chinese and Japanese!
With this major update, Moonlight Pulse can now be experienced in multiple languages. Our friends at °Know Team have localized the game's text into Simplified Chinese and Japanese, allowing more playe
Version 1.0.7 Release Notes
+ Fixed enemy falling through a vessel offscreen in a mid game area. + Fixed invincibility exploit with the Never-Melting Bar.
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Action · Metroidvania · Surreal · Exploration · Sci-fi · Supernatural · Team-Based · 2D Platformer · Action-Adventure · Platformer · Adventure · 2D (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 16 |
| Official site | https://seafloorgames.com/moonlight-pulse |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 Memory: 1 GB RAM Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable DirectX: Version 10 Storage: 2 GB available space