Moonflower

While a tad on the short side for a visual novel, it captured my heart. Every part is beautiful and wonderfully written. This story will stick with me as a favorite and a comfort to come back to when the mood is right.

The art in this game is so fantastic. Especially cat boy’s little sprite with the bushy tail! The characters are really fun and the music is pretty consistent for each scene. I cannot wait to play more! Edit: I've now completed the bad and neutral endings. What an amazing story and sad conclusions. I adore all of these characters and how they interact and uplift each other. This game deserves more hype then it gets!

I really enjoyed the story. The characters were likeable and the artwork was beautifully vibrant. The mini game was fun too. I would love to play a part 2.

Great game. Loved the characters and the art, the story is interesting and the music is fitting. I'd love to see the devs do more with the world of Moonflower in future games, as the lore really pulled me in. The game is short and has only one love interest, but I think it's well worth it.

I wish Steam had more nuanced options for reviews. While I wouldn't necessarily call Moonflower a [i]bad[/i] game, I cannot in good conscience recommend it at its current price either. So let's get down to the nitty gritty. Like others, I found the game to feel remarkably unfinished - the good ending is something of a cliffhanger, leaving the players to fill in the blanks for themselves. This was supposed to be continued in an epilogue DLC announced over two years ago as of writing this review (Jan 30, 2024) but there has bee no further communication from the team since that announcement. At this point, I can only assume plans for the DLC have been abandoned, leaving the game to remain forever in its current state. But perhaps more concerning is how desperately Moonflower needed an editor. In my playthrough I noticed a few instances of dialogue incorrectly sharing the same text box rather than advancing as it was clearly intended to. There were more than a few misspelled words, multiple instances of odd phrasing, and an overuse of epithets when describing characters. The game reads a lot like a writer who developed most of their skill writing exclusively fanfiction without a beta. And without a world and characters their readers were already familiar with to fall back on, they also fell into a habit of way too much [i]telling[/i] rather than [i]showing[/i]. I know its a written medium, but I felt like most of what we learned about the characters was Nika [i]telling[/i] us how they were perceived rather than giving the characters a chance to shine for themselves. (One particularly egregious example I can think of was being told how much effort Alyvia put into learning about the servants of the palace as an example to show how kind she is - there were better ways this could have been conveyed to the player!) Overall, I would say Moonflower is [b]okay[/b]. It's no shining beacon among visual novels, but it's not the worst I've ever played either. I expected better from it given the price point and the reviews, and I was let down. If you think you might enjoy it, I'd suggest waiting to pick it up on sale. Between the unpolished feel, the lack of a truly satisfying ending, and the short playtime I just can't recommend anyone spend that much on it.

This is one of my first visual novels and it was very fun to read. The story is great and I love the characters.

this game had me absolutely sobbing by the end of it. a beautiful love story mixed with a mystery of sorts.

you can clearly see the developers are obsessed with catboys and Aymeric in FFXIV