Moon Hunters similar games & best alternatives

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Moon Hunters

PlayStation 4, Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch • 2016

Should you play it?

Play alone or with friends! A co-op personality test about exploring an ancient, occult world in 5 days. How will you be remembered?

What works

  • High replayability with multiple characters and endings
  • Engaging cooperative multiplayer
  • Unique storytelling with player-driven personality and lore
  • Beautiful pixel art and atmospheric soundtrack
  • Short, accessible play sessions

Things to keep in mind

  • Combat can be repetitive and unbalanced
  • Online multiplayer has connectivity issues
  • Limited character customization and progression depth
  • Some players find story and events shallow or random
  • Short single runs may feel too brief for some

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Cat Quest II

  • Children of Morta

  • Lost Castle 2

  • Super Cane Magic ZERO - Legend of the Cane Cane

  • Nobody Saves the World

  • Sun Haven

Less social

Games that feels like Moon Hunters but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Chained Echoes

  • Fabled Lands

  • Drova - Forsaken Kin

  • Catmaze

  • 8-Bit Adventures 2

  • Virgo Versus The Zodiac

More competitive

Games that feels like Moon Hunters but with more competition against others

  • Secrets of Grindea

  • Bounty of One

  • Doom & Destiny Advanced

  • Ember Knights

  • Castle Crashers®

  • Across the Obelisk

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Moon Hunters: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 04/08/2026