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What if you were a tiny, vegan vampire? That\u2019s the question posed by Moonlight Peaks, the gen Z-coded, achingly TikTok-ready supernatural life sim. Inspired by the popularity of \u201ccosy games\u201d such as Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, Moonlight Peaks drapes you in the cape of Dracula\u2019s daughter, who has fled her father\u2019s corpse-ridden home to start a new, peaceful life.<\/p>\n
Soon, she settles among werewolves and witches in the supernatural farming town of Moonlight Peaks, where she grows crops and rears animals instead of subsisting on the blood of innocents. Both cosy and creepy, the game has you creating your own plant-based blood substitutes, befriending the town\u2019s residents and fixing a whole host of problems left in daddy Dracula\u2019s wake.<\/p>\n
While farming and decorating make the core of the game, its creators tell me there are a surprising number of story-led quests to find. \u201cWe joke that you\u2019re the town therapist,\u201d says Mia Boas, art director, \u201cbecause you arrive and have to help everyone solve their family issues.\u201d From calming worried werewolves to quelling quarrelling mermaids and even flirting with the grim reaper \u2013 plus flower-arranging and embroidery minigames – developer Little Chicken promises there will be more than just perfecting your haunted homestead.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe decided it should be a cute and cosy experience, through and through,\u201d says Yannis Bolman, CEO game director. \u201cWhen we first started out, we had a mechanic where you could bite every bystander. It just felt off, because you\u2019re trying to make friends with these people, and then you\u2019re biting them? It just felt really weird.\u201d<\/p>\n
Like any social-media-friendly life sim, Moonlight Peaks has a range of romance options for players to sink their teeth into. \u201cOnce you become romantically interested, you can go on dates like stargazing, marshmallow roasting \u2026 And if you do well enough, you can get married,\u201d says Bolman. \u201cThe ultimate step is, you can turn them into a vampire, too. But you\u2019re biting them with consent, of course. They\u2019ll ask<\/em> you to bite them.\u201d In an adorable touch, finding your fanged soulmate turns your home\u2019s single coffin into a double.<\/p>\n Bolman and Boas tell me that fan feedback has helped guide the direction of the game, which is already attracting an excitable \u2013 and predominantly female – fanbase. With a vibrant art style that looks surprisingly slick considering the size of its team, Moonlight Peaks looks set to fill a Twilight-shaped gap in the sim market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What if you were a tiny, vegan vampire? That\u2019s the question posed by Moonlight Peaks, the gen Z-coded, achingly TikTok-ready supernatural life sim. Inspired by the popularity of \u201ccosy games\u201d such as Animal Crossing and Stardew Valley, Moonlight Peaks drapes you in the cape of Dracula\u2019s daughter, who has fled her father\u2019s corpse-ridden home to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[2001,378,132,2468,2469,1269,2471,2470],"class_list":{"0":"post-9854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-chance","9":"tag-games","10":"tag-live","11":"tag-moonlight","12":"tag-peaks","13":"tag-tiny","14":"tag-vampire","15":"tag-vegan"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}