Mooncall news & patch notes

Mooncall is out. Windows, macOS and Linux, all three from today. It is -10% for the first week.

What it is

A retro style space rescue game. Foragers are stranded across a cratered moon during asteroid season. You fly out, land, and you drag them in. Then you take off and do it again, faster, place extenders while on foot, the sky fills up. Go as long as you survive. Compete on the leaderboards with your friends, offline or online. Extenders stretch your rescue range across the surface so foragers come to you far from any landing spot, and arc shields strung between them keep the asteroids off. The ground does not stay put either. Impacts crater it, you can dig into it, and moonquakes heave the whole thing up and down under your feet.

Bring people into it

Party mode works two ways and both of them are the real thing. On one machine, you pass the controls between runs and everyone gets ranked on the board at the end. The way it always was. Online, you start a party, send out its code, and everyone plays their own runs from wherever they are onto one shared board. Invite Steam friends through Steam, or if you stream, you can put the code on the screen and let watchers join the competition.

The leaderboard

Daily, weekly and all-time, with a separate board for every difficulty, so nothing you set on one difficulty is buried under somebody else's on another. The boards run in rescue eras, named after real places on the moon. Today's opens on Tranquillitatis. When an era turns over, its board stays up and stays playable. Nothing you set gets deleted. When eras move to a new generation, the old eras are frozen in history, possibly locking you on the top place.

The rest of it

• 25 languages.
• Accessibility modes and settings.
• Achievements.
• Full keyboard, gamepad and mouse support, all rebindable.
• No ads, no microtransactions, no paid DLC. You buy it once.

If you get stuck

There are pinned posts in the hub for the things people ask most:

• New here? The first five minutes
• Screen, text and comfort settings
• Party mode with friends, online
• The leaderboard, your name, and rescue eras
• Something is not right? Post it here

If something is broken, that last one is the place. I read it. One thing you will not find in any of them is an explanation of how anything in the game actually works. That lives in the RESCUE MANUAL, in the game, and it fills out as you play. Working it out is part of the fun.

Thank you!

Go catch those pluckers.