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Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight

DOS - 1992
Also available on: Amiga

Yet another Amiga hit that failed to dent the PC game market, Moonstone is an excellent RPG-flavored action game that puts you in the shoes of a medieval Knight in search of the Moonstones that will bring the Gods' gift that will aid in vanquishing the Great Dragon.

In a nice twist from other RPGs, the various phases of the moon affect the creatures' strength and are key to the Moonstones' power. Journey to the five corners of England to fight monsters and opposing knights to gain treasure. MobyGames describes the game in more detail:

"Something's happening in these lands, and the only hope seems to be the moonstone. You, as a chosen knight from the druids are about to find it and bring it back. The game can be played from 1 to 4 players at once, with no difference between solo and multiplayer as no matter how many players play, the story stays the same for everyone. However, if you choose to play with only one player/knight, the other three will be the computer rivals.

Wandering through the map, you can visit enchanted places, towns where you can buy equipment or try your luck in gambling, but mostly visited places on the map will be cabins which represents the places where certain enemy beasts are. Each spot has about two or more beasts which after defeating them can be rewarding in a certain way, depending on game's randomize placement. Also, for example, if the place has three beasts and you kill two before you die, next time you (or some other player) go back there, there'll be only one beast left to fight.

It's also possible for two players to run into each other and, once defeating the other, the one who prevails can steal the other player's money and/or weapons. Thus, searching for the moonstone begins, but that's only half of the story. The rest unfolds once you find it. "

Overall, a fun, if difficult multi-vel hack & slash fantasy action fest.

Review By HOTUD

Comments and reviews

старый игрок 18 Nov. 2025

одна из лучших игр тех времен. низнаю откуда я ее взял тогда, с другом играли в нее от души

0
Guys128 25 Nov. 2023

We used to play this for hours. We would invent silly names for the Knights like Sir Loin and Sir Rosis or Sir Cumscision.

0
marcello 07 Dec. 2019

Hi guys!
How can i try to install or play this game?
I dowloaded amiga version (Zip file). And after this? Unzipping folder i find other zipped folders...... Please, anybody helps me?
Thanks a lot.

0
greycat23 05 Sep. 2019

If you want to use Munt for Roland emulation. Edit MOON.CFG. Change "SOUND=PC" to "SOUND=Roland" or "SOUND=SB" for Soundblaster.

I also had to set timed=false for my joystick to work properly in DOSBox config.

1
Killbilly82 01 Aug. 2019

Had the story, had unique gameplay, had original enemies, had great art, had LOTS of gore, had RPG elements, enough challenging to be fun but not too much to be actually finnishable, unlike many old games.

One of the all time best.

2
Iron Blood 08 Jul. 2019

Hi Folkz!
As kids, we loved to play Moonstone A Hard Days Knight on a Amiga 500.
Now we are working on our own knight game, which will be inspired and similar to Moonstone.

Our knight game is called Iron Blood and we are using the Unreal Engine 4.

Check out our Website for more information:
https://www.knight-game.com

Or our Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/IronBloodGame

Thank you!

4
KC 11 Dec. 2018

You need a joystick to play......

-3
Sir Minty 22 Jan. 2018

Does anybody know how to stop the game from crashing after a while? The same thing used to happen on my 500+

-1
Ashley 20 May. 2015

Would love to see a remastered version for Moonstone

4
Seb1981 09 May. 2015

Great game should be remade for ps4 or pc

3
Joey 29 Jan. 2015

Remember the day I play this game with my brother. It so much fun. ^^

1
Sir Godber 17 Aug. 2014

Great rev! For all your Moonstone needs, get over to www.moonstonetavern.co.uk, www.facebook.com/moonstone.official and https://twitter.com/MoonstoneAmiga :)

1
AmigaAmigo 09 Jul. 2014

Moonstone was and still is the greatest game ever. I played it on my Amiga 500. My copy of Moonstone had very irritating bug....when i had collected everything i needed and were ready to go to "stonehenge"....game crashes!!! I have never finished Moonstone, perhaps someday.

2
batts 12 May. 2014

moonstone what a game loved killing everycunt in this

-2
agis 26 Apr. 2014

great game

1
GrimReapa|AU 25 Mar. 2014

Awesome old school game forgot name until now lol

0
indstr 11 Feb. 2014

Huh, I vaguely remember this...

0
great 30 Jan. 2013

great game

0
karajan 25 Oct. 2012

wtf

0
Ovination 24 Oct. 2012

you onlu have to get under his head.

1
Feyd 04 Sep. 2008

Damn dragon so hard to kill, great game anyway.

0

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Extras

Manual Manual 1
Extra file
DOS 69 KB English English

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