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Moonlighter free on Steam until Aug 9 ahead of Moonlighter 2's 1.0 launch

The original Moonlighter is available to add to Steam libraries for free until August 9. Developers Digital Sun and publisher 11 Bit Studios made the game free to coincide with Moonlighter 2's early access and its planned 1.0 release on September 2. This gives players a chance to experience the first game's shopkeeping-plus-roguelite mix before Moonlighter 2 shifts to isometric, Hades-like combat and node-based progression. A demo for Moonlighter 2 is also available on its Steam page.

• Moonlighter (the original) is free to claim on Steam through August 9.
• Digital Sun and 11 Bit Studios set the price to $0 to mark Moonlighter 2's early access and upcoming 1.0 launch on September 2.
• Moonlighter combines shopkeeping management with roguelite dungeon crawling gameplay.
• Moonlighter 2 is in early access, adopts isometric Hades-like combat and node-based progression influenced by FTL/Slay the Spire, and has a downloadable demo on Steam.