FIELD GUIDE / FIRST EDITION
Project Moon Life Guide: How to Play & Beginner Tips
Start a free life, learn the controls and stats, then follow the City paths. This guide covers this site’s own simulation rules.
For this site’s Classic v1 and City paths v2 rules · reviewed 16 October 2026.
KEYBOARD CONTROLS
Choose Enter the City, set an optional seed and rules version, then start a free life. Read each event and choose an available option; your local archive saves progress automatically.
Time has a rhythm
Four seasons. One minute per year. Slow down to take it in, or watch the years pass at up to 32× speed.
Major events stop time until you decide. Minor events use the final option when their 15 simulated seconds expire. Pausing also pauses that countdown.
Every choice leaves a trace
All five attributes are fictional indices from 0 to 100. Resources are not real money. Zero health or sanity ends a life. A life can last up to age 90.
Automatically takes the last, cautious option. Risk is still possible.
Life archive
Each season and decision is saved in this browser, without an account. Export and import life backups to move between devices. Time pauses when the tab is hidden; an already-open game can continue offline. A change in another tab pauses this one and loads the latest save.
Same rules version + seed + choices = the same life, across languages.