Games like Tales from The Dancing Moon
If Tales from The Dancing Moon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cheaphaven, Shorekeeper and Fishing Echoes — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its creative cooking and crafting, contemplative and cozy. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Tales from The Dancing Moon: Tales from the Dancing Moon is a mystery adventure game set in a world inspired by portal-fantasy novels and UK culture. After the events of a shadow-beast invasion on a seaside town, complete villager quests and find hidden diaries to understand your role in this mysterious character-driven story.
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Cheaphaven
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Top pick for Tales from The Dancing Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Cheaphaven features a brief respite full of farming, building and upgrading, a small town of NPCs for all your chatting and shopping needs, and vaguely humorous descriptions for everyday items. Day/night cycle, market values, a pigeon, all the things that are supposed to be in a farming game
Shorekeeper
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tales from The Dancing Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
You washed ashore on a mysterious island. Now what? Build a shelter, find food, and explore the unknown. Or just sit by the campfire and watch the sunset. Farm, craft, and manage your new island life entirely at your own pace.
Fishing Echoes
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tales from The Dancing Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Fishing Echoes is a fantasy fishing game where you catch elemental fish to save the realm from a world-devouring maelstrom.
三国耕战奇缘
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Tales from The Dancing Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
A Three Kingdoms sandbox RPG driven by smart AI! Start as a peasant to farm, fish, and hunt. Or play dirty: sabotage crops, frame NPCs, and slander officials. In this dynamic world where every NPC thinks and plots, will you stay a farmer or rule the land?
ONE (1) WORLD
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Tales from The Dancing Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Build a home on a strange audited island in this top-down pixel sandbox RPG. Mine, farm, fish, craft, fight, sail, and chart routes from road to rocket—then survive the Bureau’s stamps, storms, bosses, and very personal paperwork.
Hokko Life
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Ranked #6 for Tales from The Dancing Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Hop off the train and into your new life in the village of Hokko! Take over the old workshop and get creative; use crafted materials and design everything in town! With complete creative freedom, what type of town will you build?
Harvest Cafe
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Tales from The Dancing Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Explore, grow, repair and cook delicious food! Harvest Cafe combines an open-world adventure with a restaurant business simulation, giving you the opportunity to enjoy farm life.
Everafter Falls
WHY THIS
Shares a cozy mood with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Ranked #8 for Tales from The Dancing Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Rediscover the simple life. Farm, fish, forge and fight to restore the peace in an all-new farming adventure. Features split-screen coop, a helpful pet, automated drones, resourceful pixies, a card-eating progression system, and dangerous dungeons to delve into!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tales from The Dancing Moon at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Tales from The Dancing Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Tales from The Dancing Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Tales from The Dancing Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Tales from The Dancing Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Tales from The Dancing Moon on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Tales from The Dancing Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
Higurashi When They Cry Hou - Ch.1 Onikakushi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Tales from The Dancing Moon.
Higurashi When They Cry is a sound novel. The music, backgrounds and characters work together to create a world that is the stage of a novel for the user to read. They laugh and cry and get angry. The user takes the point of view of the protagonist to experience the story.
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Frequently asked about Tales from The Dancing Moon
- Is Tales from The Dancing Moon verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Tales from The Dancing Moon is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Tales from The Dancing Moon cost?
- Tales from The Dancing Moon is listed on Steam at 17.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tales from The Dancing Moon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tales from The Dancing Moon are Cheaphaven, Shorekeeper, Fishing Echoes.
- Who developed Tales from The Dancing Moon?
- Tales from The Dancing Moon was developed by DjMonkey.
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