Cards on the table, I loved the original Moonlighter. The combination of dungeon crawling and shopkeeping went together like rum and coke; a moreish combination where each half of the gameplay loop fed into the other (yes I do mix my rum and cokes half-half). By night you delved into procedurally generated dungeons where all the loot you collected was the stock you’d sell in your little shop by day. It put a nice twist on the familiar roguelike structure where in addition to progressing as far into the dungeons as you can you have the parallel objective of pilfering as much as possible; a good haul (and the lucrative day of sales that followed) often felt just as good as beating a dungeon.

Seven years later, The Endless Vault revisits that original hook with a bevvy of changes and new features, some great and some not so great. The new mode of presentation is the most striking of these and while the 3D isometric graphics are all quite nicely done, I can’t help but feel like it’s all a bit too clean. It’s kind of like a Canva design; you could never say it

Just what do I think I’m doing? So this site is primarily inspired by some recent Limmy streams where he advocated for personal blogs and