Play Moonfall Online

Game Overview

Moonfall drops you onto Frontier Alfa, a moon where humans got stuck under alien rule ages ago. Instead of ending up in chains, you luck out—you’re handed a trading license and told to make yourself useful. The whole point? Scrape together enough credits to buy back every last factory and outpost, basically freeing humanity through capitalism.

It plays like Elite’s scrappy cousin. You zip between settlements in your ship, buying low and selling high across 18 different goods—though figuring out where to unload your cargo for max profit takes some trial and error. The starting laser feels a bit wimpy when pirates show up, so you’ll want to reinvest those early earnings into homing missiles or mines unless you’d rather be the pirate (attacking freighters is totally an option). The navigation computer lets you fast-travel, thank god, because flying manually everywhere would get old fast. There are odd jobs too if you need quick cash, but most of the time you’re just trying not to get blown up while hauling space potatoes.

It’s janky in that classic Amiga way, but there’s something weirdly satisfying about turning a rusty cargo hauler into a money-printing machine.