Moonshine Inc.

Moonshine Inc.

Released Dec 2022

We love moonshin’. Now, you get to play a story-rich management game focused on crafting moonshine, brandy, whisky, and vodka. You’ll ferment, distill, then name your booze how you want it. You’ll run that business big. Smart, yet discreetly. Cause ain’t nothin’ illegal... ‘til you get caught!

64% positive · 211 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence

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Evaluation

Moonshine Inc. launched on December 1, 2022, and received a steady stream of patches and updates in its first year of release. The two major content additions were the Sandbox Mode (February 23, 2023) and Patch 1.1 (June 1, 2023), which brought significant gameplay rebalancing and new features. After that, activity dropped to minor bug fixes: a hotfix on June 12, 2023, and a small localization/save fix on January 15, 2024. The last developer communication of any kind was on January 16, 2024 — a post about Steam profile collectibles (cards, badges, backgrounds, emojis), which are cosmetic store items rather than game content. Since January 2024, there have been no further posts, announcements, roadmaps, or content releases. The only DLC ever listed is the Supporter Pack, which shipped on launch day and is a cosmetic/supporter item rather than a content expansion. No unreleased DLC exists, no future content has been announced, and the developer has not published a roadmap or teased anything beyond what has already shipped. With the update cadence having wound down to pure maintenance and then going fully silent after January 2024, the game appears to have concluded its post-launch content cycle. The last substantive content milestone was the Steam collectibles release on January 16, 2024.
Evidence
Patch 1.1 released with significant gameplay rebalancing across fermentation, distillation, and bottling, plus new UI and Russian language support.
news post · Jun 1, 2023 source content shipped
high
Sandbox Mode launched as a free major update, the most-requested feature from the community.
news post · Feb 23, 2023 source content shipped
high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Klabater
Achievements
43
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

We love moonshin’. There ain’t nothin’ better than good booze. In Appalachia, we know it well. We’ve got moonshine in our blood - in the case of some old-timers, maybe even literally. We love to talk about likker, make it, drink it all day long - and we love to share it too! How 'bout that, my gaming friend?

What’s your alcohol of choice? Do you maybe know how to make it? The process is a complex one, but with our know-how, we can shed some light on it, if you’d like; a little bit of moonlight - moonshine! - to guide you through the processes of fermentation, distillation, and bottling. But that’s too much to write about here - just check out the .gif below to see how we went about it.

Makin’ booze is pure fun, but if you’re makin’ money too - now that’s the way to live. However, for that, you need to be smart, manage your base right, and not piss off the boys in blue...

We tried to capture the life of a moonshiner as realistically as possible. You’ll be managing workers who’ll be crafting and maintaining your equipment, you’ll be buying ingredients, unlocking technologies, planning deliveries and finances, making sure you remain as discreet as possible - and deciding whom to trust and with whom to work.

In our game, you take on the role of a young moonshiner. You will progress through main missions, perform side quests, and run into road events during deliveries - the life of a moonshiner is ever-exciting and full of surprises...

If you’ll be prospering, you’ll get the chance to create and manage bases in five different regions, each with its own, more and more challenging missions. From your hometown mountains, through the thicket of a forest and mud of a swamp, all the way to civilization to conquer the big city.

How the story will end depends purely on you - there’ll be a pesky agent who’ll want to work with you, and there’ll be a corrupt governor that you can join. But you can also ignore them. You’re a free man, after all.

That’s how Moonshine Inc. came to be. Made for moonshiners, amateurs, dreamers, and newbies. Sit down, launch the game, enjoy crafting and running your business, and relax… after all, ain't nothin’ illegal ‘til you get caught!

  • Sandbox mode with the choice of region, starting money, Police Alert on/off, speed of production and crafting, and discoverability of technologies and recipes

  • a faithful reflection of the moonshine craft - fermentation and distillation based on chemical formulas behaving as natural processes

  • a realistic recreation of an American moonshiner’s business, with all its challenges

  • a rich story - 3 possible successful endings or a “Game Over” if caught by the authorities

  • 5 regions - running the base in the mountains, forest, swamps, town, and city, with linear progression

  • 70+ recipes - 15+ moonshines, 15+ whiskies, 20 brandies, 20+ vodkas

  • 50+ ingredients - sugars, fruits, vegetables, and grains

  • 35+ apparatuses - 17 distillation stills, 8 fermentation tanks, 5 post-distillation tanks, 7 pre-fermentation apparatuses, and more

  • 26 fermentation and distillation technologies

  • 37 main quests + Police Quests, side quests, and road events

  • Original Soundtrack - get a Supporter Pack to download 19 tracks from the game’s OST

Last evaluated Jun 20, 2026
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