Battle Vampires on the moon in this Time-Stop Horde Survival Roguelike!

CONTROLS

Gamepad is recommended!

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MOUSE - Select Card / Aim Ability

WASD and Arrow Keys - Move / Aim Ability

Z - Progress Time / Back

X - Open Deck / Select

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Survive the Horde

The Year is 19XX... Fight through endless hordes of ghouls, cybernetically enhanced undead, and servants to the all-powerful Vampire Lord. Every second counts, every step is life or death, everything is vampires... on the moon!

Stop the Flow of Time

Wield the Moon Watch! Time itself becomes your weapon: think strategically, set up devastating combos, weave impossible odds in your favor.

Build Your Deck

Collect cards with unique attacks and abilities.
Refine your deck to build devastating combos.
Discover rare relics that provide passive upgrades to your run.
Hunt the darkest threat the world, and the moon, has ever known.

Enhance Your Power

Unlock devastating new tools after every attempt to navigate the Vampire Lords Castle. Your next visit to the moon will take you closer to him.

Unlock new cards!
Discover powerful relics!
Play with new starting decks and increased enemy hordes!

Join us and Play Early!

We’re expanding our demo with new updates all the time, and we need your feedback – will you join us on the moon and destroy the vampire lord?

Join our Discord Server!

Check out our Steam Page! Wishlist now!

Check out our X account for the latest news and updates!

Credits:

Design / Programming - TheJaspel - Twitter - Itch
Character and Environmental Art - GangsRobin - Twitter - Itch
Music - BinaryCounter - Twitter - Itch - Bandcamp
Logo design and Additional Art - NedoKotent - Itch

More information

Different Tales

Status	In development
Platforms	HTML5
Publisher
Rating	Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars (96 total ratings)
Authors	Thejaspel, GangsRobin, BinaryCounter
Genre	Action
Made with	Unity, Aseprite
Tags	2D, Cute, Deck Building, Pixel Art, Roguelike, Roguelite, Sci-fi, Tactical, Time Travel, Vampire
Average session	About a half-hour
Inputs	Keyboard, Mouse, Xbox controller, Gamepad (any), Playstation controller
Links	Steam, Twitter/X, Discord
Mentions	Fresh action games you can play right in...

Development log

Big Demo Update #2: Endless Mode
54 days ago
Moon Watch Act II
75 days ago
Moon Watch Feedback
92 days ago
Moon Watch is available now!
97 days ago

Comments

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Reyold8 days ago (1 edit)

Congrats on the Early Access release! Is there any chance of the game coming to Itch.io?

Necromint28 days ago

What about the boss at the end?

how to hack these terminals

Snegglepuss28 days ago

Crashes on boot

Kuro14 days ago

There is a Demo on their Steam storepage and it works just fine

The_Sparklesauce28 days ago

Really fun, very breakable.

vsea29 days ago

error while playing, too bad

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dogfish51732 days ago

Fun game, one question though, was this game inspired by superhot at all?

Thejaspel31 days ago(+1)

Definitely!

bario233 days ago

the best of the new games i've playe

joshsteich34 days ago

Was really enjoying it until this happened:

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elijah_ap44 days ago

Multiple times now I have ended up in broken paths where I can't complete the game. You might already be aware of this. (Playing on the Steam demo on Mac)

Blade of shadows52 days ago

for some reason i can't post the photo

Blade of shadows52 days ago

um I think I killed the loop 3 boss without hacking terminals???? is this a bug or is it possible with the combos I have

russe11154 days ago

The Stop the Flow of Time idea is great, it gives the player more time to think and strategize. I also really like the deck as an attack. Just one suggestion, if the selection of the deck there could be done via keyboard, I think it would be more logical to the player's movement interaction than the mouse.

GangsRobin54 days ago

the game is completely playable with or without mouse!

jonah.f55 days ago

gonna check this out when it comes out on steam! hope the making of the game is going smoothly

idontcaregivemegameplease58 days ago

Backpack Heros is one of the best games ever made, each character feels like a totally different game, it's pure serotonin. I really hope this game ends up being the same where each character completely changes things up. I don't know if it's one person doing this or a team, but you guys have genius ideas. Taking big risks but when you see the results, it seems obvious. I really hope variety and large amounts of weapons, perks and enemies make it into the final version. I'm rooting for you.

GangsRobin58 days ago

new characters aren't going to be on the same level of difference as say the base character of backpack hero to cr-8, but they will all have a completely unique set of cards, relics, and mechanics!

idontcaregivemegameplease57 days ago

That's good enough, that can make them feel very unique and really that's all I was hoping for.

Miagor9863 days ago

cool and fun twist

Game Frog65 days ago

Really nice!

dr!ppy66 days ago

Yeah, this game rules. Prepare to make a bunch of money and get super famous.

BinaryHydra67 days ago(+1)(-1)

The time stopping with energy for cards system is interesting, but having no ability to do anything except run away when you don't have energy feels pretty bad. Even having a weak basic attack would feel better.

There's some clear tension between this being a fast paced active game and a more methodical one, and right now it feels like that tension hasn't been resolved

flashdude020168 days ago(-1)

how do you discard cards

Froggergobl1n71 days ago(+1)

finally got to act two in classic! died very quickly after

silentnun71 days ago

So well made, love seeing the improvement!

elijah_ap72 days ago

Love the game. Been playing it (probably too much) over the past week or so.

Just played a Defend level and managed to keep playing after the lil guy was destroyed. Won the level despite failing the objective. Not sure what is going on there.

Otherwise, everything is really polished.

GangsRobin72 days ago(+2)

this is intended! objectives within a level are optional to progress, but doing them nets a reward!

elijah_ap70 days ago

Ah ha! That makes sense. Thanks for clearing that up.
Finally beat the game today and loved it. Great work.

xyncht73 days ago

It has changed, probably for the better overall. It's always weird when you can't play the old version of a game.

Blade of shadows73 days ago

for some reason when i get to certain levels i click one key and then i keep moving in that direction until i die

Joshua The Gamedev74 days ago (1 edit)

I like the game. it is fun.

Edit: I have now beaten the game. It was fun methinks. At the end of the first floor, I was forced to pick a relic that dramatically changed how I played the game. This is a great moment and there is a lot of potential in this mechanic. I ended up picking the relic that made it so I only gained energy while standing still or from killing enemies. The game got really easy after that, the scaling felt a little off, I was gaining energy faster than I could use it!

Regardless, cool game, very fun, two thumbs up!!!

Creamy Caramel74 days ago

the new update is awesome already, glad I've got it on steam on my other computer, I'm gonna play it till I 100% what there is currently ngl

Lunis_moonfire74 days ago(+1)

i win

ASWhalerGamer74 days ago(-1)

Awesome game! Made it to act 2 (ignore I did it on easy please haha. Left a follow and keep up the amazing work!

heph-bh75 days ago

I almost won I like the new floor, the final boss was hard because I didn't know where i was going and there were a lot of enemies. As you can see ^ the bipod isn't as good any more which you said in your patch notes, and it's definitely not good for the act 2 boss because you have you move far down the tunnel. I will say that boomerang, and the ice glyph, with the power that pulses freeze are still good, I also liked how when we completed a defend mission you were rewarded with an artifact. I can't remember if that was there before but I like it, all in all I really like the new update, I can't wait for the other character to be added. Good luck with your game, I will continue to play it.

romasharf75 days ago

The game is pretty engaging!

1Limbo77 days ago

i softlocked myself xD tried to use a card while she celebrated a win and then the next room i can't move or do anything really

The Druid Artist77 days ago

I found the game so great! It's not much of an action game as much as it is strategy! It was just kinda hard to understand the "how to win" part at first while I still didn't get a grasp on the energy economy, but overall, it's a great game!

zeed0177 days ago

idk if im just bad at bullet hells but.
this game is hella unforgiving

The Druid Artist77 days ago

I found it somewhat easy once I knew when to play cards and how the energy economy works. It isn't very clear how to play at first, but then the game gets so much more fun!

GotasDeNeon77 days ago(+1)

Genius.

ildarin78 days ago (1 edit)

Beat the boss, game freezes

Here is console

https://anotepad.com/notes/bngcqewn

BinaryCounter78 days ago

Hi, thanks for the report and logs. We've had a couple of rare reports about this, but we're unable to reproduce the problem. Could you tell me a little more about your set up? What browser are you using and how much RAM does your machine have?

ildarin77 days ago (1 edit) (+1)

I am from ru and used https://github.com/bol-van/zapret to access youtube (goverment censores and block many sites) while playing, this may cause problem. Chrome, win10, 6gb RAM. Also extensions adblock and https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/%D0%BE%D0%B1%D1%85%D0%BE%D0%B4-%D0%B1%D... (also anti-censorship). Thats all.

Blade of shadows78 days ago

also how does the hack terminal work? when i click hack terminal nothing happens

BinaryCounter78 days ago

The terminals have rings around them that are visible when you stand near them. You just need to remain in the circle until the terminal starts firing a lazer towards the boss.

Blade of shadows78 days ago

great game but i find if i get too many relics it starts glitching i had four frozen skulls shatter glyph rubber bullets two splinters holy lightning and whittling knife and everytime i use a ice skill it glitches

Blade of shadows78 days ago

is that just my internet or does this happen for other people

niggerman500078 days ago

Interesting idea. I think it takes too long to ramp up though, unless you get really lucky.

Sir UkgBug79 days ago

This game is AWESOME!!!! One of my absolute favorites on itch! Good job!

TimWeiHu79 days ago

za warudo!

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