The Monsoon Ledger

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The Monsoon Ledger

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Description

Short (one line)

A turn-based adventure RPG about a disgraced sea-captain who learns the monsoon was never lost. It was pawned.

Medium (one paragraph)

After a hundred days without wind, Captain Sefa Marrow has lost her licence, her ship and her good name. With a stolen compass, a ghost who knows more than he says, and a crew of misfits, she sails a sun-baked archipelago to find out where the monsoon went, and learns it was never lost: it was pawned, and the creditor has come to collect. The Monsoon Ledger is a painted, turn-based adventure RPG with timed combat, no random battles, choices the world remembers, and three endings.

Long (three paragraphs)

For a hundred days the monsoon has failed. Ships rot at anchor, cisterns run dry, and the Navigators' Guild keeps its books closed. Captain Sefa Marrow falsifies the water log to keep her crew alive, and for that the Guild strikes her licence and hands her ship to her own first mate. When a pickpocket lifts a brass compass and its founder's ghost wakes at Sefa's touch, she sets out island to island to learn who took the wind, and discovers that nobody stole it. It was signed away, and a perfectly courteous creditor has come to collect.

The Monsoon Ledger is a turn-based adventure RPG told as a voyage. Fights are placed, never random, and every enemy shows its next move. Time your strikes and parries at the brass notch, break heavy blows before they land, and answer the Drowned Choir's requiem beat for beat. Explore walkable gouache scenes where every clue is written into your ledger. Each island, from the dye terraces of Kesari Shoals to the sinking archive of Ledgermire, asks a different question about who owes what to whom.

Your choices decide who gets the water, who you rescue and who you forgive, and they decide which of three endings you can reach: honour the debt, share it, or burn it. Timing assist, a Story difficulty, a colorblind palette and full rebinding mean anyone can finish the voyage. The game is free to play in your browser at game.moore-labs.com.

Key features

  • Timed turn-based combat: perfect hits, parries, and heavy blows you can lock out before they land.
  • No random battles and no grinding. Every fight is placed and starts at full health.
  • A five-act story of a hundred scenes, with an arc, a boss and a moral question for each island.
  • Three meaningful choices plus twenty side quests that colour the finale and unlock three endings.
  • Hand-composed gouache travel-poster art direction in one locked palette.
  • Assist mode and accessibility options: timing assist, Story difficulty, colorblind palette, reduced motion, rebinding.
  • Plays in the browser with no install.

Art and screenshots

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Key art, icon and banners

Trailer stills

Locations

Gameplay screenshots

Captured from the current build at 1920×1080 (WebP). Click for full size.

Characters

About the art: all character, scene and promo art for The Monsoon Ledger is original and AI-generated against a single locked style guide, then reviewed and composited by hand. The gameplay screenshots are captured from the game; the other images are in-game paintings and promo illustrations.

Credits

Created by
Matthew Moore [confirm credit line]
Development
Built with AI agent teams under Matthew Moore's direction [confirm wording]
Story and writing
[name]
Art direction
[name]
Music and sound
[name]
Engine
Godot Engine (MIT licence)

Contact

Press
[press email]
Business
[business email]
Social
[social links]
Keys and builds
The game is free to play in the browser at game.moore-labs.com/play/. For desktop builds, contact [press email].