Moontoll

Roll your bones. Wind the clock. Pay the Moon.

You keep the Great Clock through the longest night, and every hour the Moon demands a toll of Light. Roll your bones (dice) to push the hand around a dial of little automaton figures: the ones you pass wake a little, the one you stop on wakes a lot. Wax × Flame = Light. Pay her every hour and you'll see the dawn.

The distance the hand travels each hour is fixed. Your only choice is how to spend it: many small steps for more landings, or a few long strides for more passes, on a dial you build up figure by figure, hour by hour.

What's in a night

• 57 figures in six families: beasts, birds, bugs, clockwork, folk and curios. Buy one you already own and it grows.
• 15 bones, each with its own faces, and marks you can carve onto them.
• Inlays carved into the hours of the dial itself: springs that bounce the hand onward, chimes, little bells, moonstones.
• Trinkets: one-use tricks for your pockets. Wind the hand back, jump it anywhere, ring the Bell early.
• The Moon's Hours bring 24 curses. A visitor knocks before each one, and if you pay her in full she leaves a favor.
• 8 candles to start from, each with its own rule, unlocked through 37 feats.
• Vows for darker nights, the Long Night after dawn, and a Daily Night that's the same for everyone.
• The Almanac: everything you've met, your records and a short guide.

Controls

Mouse and keyboard, or an Xbox, PlayStation or Switch Pro controller. Swap any time; the on-screen prompts follow whatever you touched last.

Installing on a Mac

Moontoll runs natively on Apple Silicon and Intel Macs with macOS 13 Ventura or later.

1. Download and unzip Moontoll-macOS.zip, then drag Moontoll into your Applications folder.
2. Open it. The first time, macOS will say it can't verify the app, because small indie games like this one aren't notarized by Apple.
3. Go to System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down and click Open Anyway. You only need to do this once.

Comfortable with Terminal? xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Moontoll.app does the same thing.

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A game by Degife Keller. Every sprite, sound and note of music is made in code; there are no asset files.