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Moonchild cover art

Moonchild

Aldorlea Games · 2016-04-22

Steam

AdventureCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 22, 2016 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

What kind of danger can a mother face to rescue her child? Moonchild is a unique and enthralling 16-bit style RPG adventure featuring 9 amazing characters, plenty of sidequests and countless items and spells.

Moonchild is an Adventure, Casual, Indie and RPG game released in 2016, priced at $0.79, with an estimated owner base of 50,000 .. 100,000 and a review sentiment of Mostly Positive (75% of 162 reviews).

0
playing now
75%
positive of 162 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.79
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 5 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 44% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 32% of 28,739 Adventure games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 4.0k–9.7k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 162 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.37 at GamersGate (2022-05-16)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $9.99 · on sale 30 of 51 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420152026Week of 2015-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

7502026-09-15 04:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-17 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 03:00 — 1 players2026-09-20 11:00 — 2 players2026-09-21 19:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 02:00 — 3 players2026-09-24 10:00 — 27 players2026-09-25 17:00 — 52 players2026-09-27 01:00 — 22 players2026-09-28 08:00 — 18 players2026-09-29 16:00 — 19 players2026-09-30 23:00 — 7 players2026-10-02 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 14:00 — 1 players2026-10-04 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-06 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-08 21:00 — 1 players2026-10-10 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 12:00 — 0 players2026-10-12 20:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 03:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 19:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$0.372015-01-012026-08-242015-01-01 — best price $5.002015-10-26 — best price $13.992016-04-18 — best price $2.492016-11-10 — best price $9.992017-06-19 — best price $0.902018-01-19 — best price $9.992018-11-13 — best price $0.992019-06-18 — best price $1.492019-11-11 — best price $0.992020-01-22 — best price $3.992020-05-28 — best price $0.752020-08-04 — best price $9.992020-10-24 — best price $9.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-03-29 — best price $0.602021-06-30 — best price $9.992021-10-04 — best price $9.992022-01-05 — best price $9.992022-03-31 — best price $9.992022-06-10 — best price $1.002022-09-19 — best price $0.372022-12-24 — best price $4.992023-03-23 — best price $4.992023-08-21 — best price $0.372023-11-13 — best price $0.372024-01-19 — best price $6.992024-05-13 — best price $3.492024-08-26 — best price $1.042024-12-16 — best price $6.992025-03-10 — best price $0.792025-06-30 — best price $0.632025-10-26 — best price $9.992026-04-06 — best price $0.892026-08-24 — best price $0.80
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

23
achievements tracked
6.5%
earned "1 hour played"
2.1%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam CloudFamily Sharing3 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 3 DLC released, first 2015-05-13, latest 2016-04-22 (Steam store data)

Player tags

RPGJRPGAnimeFunnyIndieCasualFantasyRPGMakerAdventureStory Rich

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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