Moonstall: Night Market Idle

Play the Tale of the Moonlight Market, build a night market, and drive off a legend.

Moonstall is set in Taiwan, at a temple's steps at dusk, where A-Ma Lin's griddle has gone cold and the Nian's brood has come back to the dark lanes. Light them again, city by city, and grow a market that cooks while you're away.

THE TALE OF THE MOONLIGHT MARKET
• Three years on the island, four sagas each, spring to winter: 184 levels, three stars each, and a pilgrimage of 36 more
• Every saga ends in a boss fight: sting it as it crouches, dodge its fire, find it among its reflections, strike the great drum. The Great Nian last
• Cook against the clock, hold the stalls against the brood, aim a firework mortar, light dark lanes
• Take a snack from your own market for the road: one more drum, more moves, more time

ENDLESS NIGHTS
• The Long Night: every kind of level by turns, each night harder, as deep as you can go
• Tonight's Trial: the same road for every player, a new one each day
• Climb the rivals' league from bronze lantern to moon, and put your best on Google Play Games leaderboards

LEAD A TEMPLE PROCESSION
• Steer your troupe through arches that add, multiply or take: count before you choose
• Win heroes from Taiwan's own processions, lion dancers, the Third Prince, the Eight Generals, and train them

BREAK UP THE BROOD'S KNOTS
• The Nian's young curl into knots that bounce down the street. Fire from your cart, and each bursts into smaller ones

A NEW YEAR AT HOME
• Sweep the alley, shop Dihua Street, grow a pineapple, hang the lanterns, take back the city and race for the first incense

THE KING BOAT
• Fire troupers through multiplying arches, play Zhong Kui and swallow spirits, build the boat yard into a maze, hold the beach till dawn

DRIVE OFF THE NIAN
• On the year's last night, says the legend, the Nian comes to eat. It comes to your market too
• Throw firecrackers, and strike as it crouches to spring. Each time you win, it comes back bolder

BEAT RIVAL CHEFS ON THE LEI TAI
• Six rival vendors, one from each city, challenge you to a cook-off
• Forty seconds, one crowd, two booths: work your griddle, hand out samples, strike the gong
• Beat all six to be crowned Night Market King. Every rival you beat becomes an ally, sending gifts

DRAGONS, FIREWORKS AND A PHOENIX
• Lead the dragon dance with its pearl to catch red envelopes
• The phoenix comes only to a market at peace. Find its five feathers, and it marches with you

A MARKET THAT LIVES
• Visitors who are hungry, thirsty, craving sweets, tired or after fun. Choose the plot for every stall, table and game
• It grows through four ages, Temple Steps, Lantern Lane, Night Market and Famous Market, true to history from 1753 to 1954
• Markets in Keelung, Taichung, Tainan, Kaohsiung and Hualien as the tale gets there
• Lunar New Year, the Lantern Festival, the Dragon Boat Festival, the Ghost Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival on their real dates

REAL DISHES, EIGHTEEN REGULARS
• Scallion pancakes, pepper buns, oyster omelettes, gua bao, bubble tea, fried chicken steak, oyster vermicelli, stinky tofu, Taiwanese sausage and mango shaved ice, and each city's own
• Eighteen regulars, each drawn by what they love. A passport of stamps, postcards and a home-screen widget

COZY, AND FOR EVERY AGE
• No energy, nothing lost for good, and no one leaves angry
• An original score that never repeats, each season its own. Every sound made in code
• A child sees only ads made for children, and no online boards

ADS, AND HOW TO HAVE NONE
• Watch a video for a second wind, double spoils, a festival, or to call the dragon dancers
• Ads between some levels (none for children) and a market banner, never in play

SUPPORT THE MARKET
• Moonlight Pass, yearly with 7 days free or monthly: no ads, no videos to watch
• Or support it once, for good, with gold and jade lanterns
• Stall styles: floral cloth, retro neon and temple gold. The look only

Your market stays on your phone, and there is no account.

Recent changes:
Small improvements and fixes.