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By Moonlight

~ ~ A Comedic Mystery Visual Novel with Relationship Building ~ ~ Play as a paranormal investigator hired by the paranormal to investigate! Search for a headless horseman's missing head before the night is over.

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February 19, 2019
7 years and 165 days ago
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Very Positive118 reviews89.0%

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About the Game

~ A Comedic Mystery Visual Novel with Relationship Building ~

Play as a paranormal investigator hired by the paranormal to investigate!

A series of events in which you search for a headless horseman's missing head before the night is over.

Features:

- 5 Different relationship routes
- Customizable player name + pronouns
- Plenty of bad ends
- A ton of locations to explore!

- Please give game a couple of minutes to load on first start up -

Game twitter @by_moonlight_vn
Creator twitter @sugarhyped4real

Extra content (DLC) is available to buy through a link in the game page, which you can access through a box to the right - "Visit the website"

DLC 1: ($3)
All soundtrack, pixel art, and character intro cards

DLC 2: ($5)
All CGs, backgrounds, and 27 pages of behind the scenes + all of the above (DLC 1)

DLC 3: ($8)
All character sprites and photoshop files, route events + all of the above (DLC 1 and 2)