Moonlighter: a shopkeeper by day, a dungeon crawler by night - and somehow, that's enough.
Moonlighter is, on paper, two games that probably shouldn't work together - a cozy shop management sim and a Zelda-like dungeon crawler - and in practice, neither half is particularly exceptional on its own. But the seam between them, the moment where economic survival meets literal survival, is where the game becomes something genuinely worth playing. With the sequel on the horizon, there's never been a better time to understand what made the original quietly special.
