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Moonshine Inc.
Developer Klabater
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! From the Steam store page
103 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Mastodon, Bluesky) · newest Aug 3, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
61
Fresh
59 positive · 38 negative
95% range 51–70%
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Steam's own rating
Mixed
138 of 214 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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60 of 103 · most liked firstReview Updated Dec. 14, 2022 I had the opportunity to have a video call with a member of the Klabator team. They're actively working to update and improve Moonshine Inc., so there's reason to be optimistic. Although my impression of the game is still mixed, here are my thoughts after playing for a few more hours and getting about halfway through Chapter 2. The personality and soul of this game is what brought us here, and discovering new recipes is usually a straightforward and satisfying…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BUG PATCH RELEASED TODAY (2022 12 08)! Most of the bugs people are complaining about have now been fixed. I'll paste the dev update at the bottom. As a professional distiller in real life this game definitely piqued my curiosity, so bought it within an hour of release. Everything is there that you'd expect from a deep management sim, right down to your mash ingredient ratios and even CUTS! Which surprised me as cuts are a very personal decision in the real world. As you adjust all these…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Excellent concept - Poor delivery. Game was released too early with many game ending bugs. I wouldn't recommend it at this stage of development.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It still surprises me that games like this come out quite regularly. This game's pitch is very hard to sell - it's basically one of those company management simulator games, not unlike the Gamedev Tycoon and whatnot... but it's about hillbillies making moonshine. And the booze making portion of the game is so meticulously recreated that you might as well listen to some tutorials on distillation to understand how to play this. It's a pity that most other game elements are so barebones - once you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review by [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/34633003-Gaming-Masterpieces/lists/] Gaming Masterpieces - The greatest games of all time on Steam. Is this game a masterpiece? No, it is a hardcore booze brewing simulator. I expected an economic simulation with a bit of stupid fun, maybe like Cartel Tycoon. I expected a bit of Al Capone with some shootouts and bribes for the police. I learned how to make my own whiskey. The story starts with you trying to make a living with an…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Is it worth the money? YES Is it fun to play even if u have no idea of moonshining? Yes I think so Should u buy it right now? U can, but maybe wait 2-3 days for the devs to solve some bugs. Now enjoy reading my comment :) I got the Game today at launch and playing it since. I rly rly enjoy it a lot! I played it in the steam demo week a bit and knew since then that I want it when its out. And here I am :) The intro to the Game is so well done and my first 3h of it have been amazing. I think…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →ACTUAL REVIEW OF THE GAME... a lot of the negative reviews are based on performance issues or bugs in the game and not actual play. I had zero performance issues so this is strictly about the gameplay. I was extremely disappointed with the game. There really isn't much of a game to begin with... I really like the idea of a moonshine simulator, but this is not that...it is a business simulation. This game is, I hate to say it, a step above a glorified phone app. You make a couple clicks…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Okay so here's the thing. I have to give this game a thumbs up because it TECHNICALLY does what it set out to do. It gives you a moonshine simulator game. But it's not perfect. It has bugs and glitches. It's tutorial isn't helpful enough. It's complicated as hell to figure out. And in some cases it looks hideous. But the game isn't bad. It's addictive, clearly knows what it's trying to do and does a fairly good job at giving you a moonshine simulator kind of game. Is it worth its asking…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is essentially a survival game as from your first sale of moonshine, you effectively kick off a timer based on actions left before the game ends. Wish I had known there is no reliable way to reduce this count down and although it was raised with the devs on live streams I suspect a fix is far off.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a pretty great game, but the game breaking bugs are really frustrating. Once in a while your production will just hang, normally when they need to move ingredients from one thing to another, it's like they never get the instruction. Once this happens, it's game over, you'll literally need to start a new game, from the very beginning. Your only saving grace is if you happen to have a save before the stall will happen, which is nearly impossible to preempt as production will run over…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →UPDATED REVIEW : DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! So I played another 9 hours of this game, as painful as it is, hoping for a nugget of something I missed. Sadly it is worse then I first perceived. This is the only game you will ever play that you can set it to 8x speed and just walk away. On the 3rd map where you would think the game would start to ramp up and get harder and more complex it does the opposite. Quest line is laughable. Make 900 L of alcohol. I legit got so bored and waiting for the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Poorly optimised, the only settings I can run this game stable 60 fps is 1080p low settings. Should easily be able to run it 1440p ultra but get max 40fps with 50% gpu/cpu utilisation, can run dying light 2 ultra 1440p over 60fps so go figure. Will come back to it once its better optimised but refunded for now. system spec: R5 5600 & RX 6700 XT
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →UPDATE 10/2023 I have to change my previous review / opinion, because nothing is happening here, no patch no update, no answers since 4 months and the game is still full of bugs! I can't recommend it anymore because even the developers probably don't like it! My old and complete review below... .. . Patch 1.1 - 06/2023 Hmm...thirsty?…need a drink? A themed business management simulator with a relatively simple design (oldscool), without going into much depth like some other games of this…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Even if the tutorial is a bit heavy to learn, the game delivers exactly what it promises, which is a good and fun moonshine simulator game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A game about distilling and selling spirits sounds really great. Except this isn't a game as much as it is a menu-clicker simulator. All you do is click things in a menu. You don't get to walk around and look at or interact with the process. The entire game is spent clicking around in menus and waiting for timers. It got boring within the first 15 minutes. You don't pour ingredients into a vat. You don't inspect the fermentation to check that it's going well. You don't light the fire under the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Why not recommended? 1. It's extremely buggy. I mean it! If something can go wrong, it does. It takes a bit of time to realise this so be warned, you might be out of the 2-hour return limit by the time you realise how badly you've been cheated. 2. UI/UX issues. It's quite wonky in a lot of places. Controls are in all sorts of weird locations, there's no consistent menu structure. Then you need to remember numbers and ingredients or you need to discard processes halfway, go out, check…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game seems to have all the right ingredients (pardon the pun), but the bugs are crippling. Batches not progressing (remaining time not going down even under 8x speed), at one point creating a new batch, the entire UI was broken on the distillation page when it should have been at fermentation, and on and on. I did not have the tutorial bug(s) people have mentioned here, but it was far from smooth sailing from there. I may start a new game, but not until they've addressed some of the issues…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've brewed beer, but not spirits. But I find the whole process and chemistry interesting. I've also watched the Moonshiners TV series and enjoyed that. That being said, I wanted to buy this game. What stopped me was the mixed reviews. Eventually I just bought it anyway, because the negative reviews were several years old and involved glitches not fixed (one involved gasoline disappearing from the inventory, but I haven't used gas yet, so I don't know about that). So, I wanted to give a recent…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game makes you feel like Popcorn Sutton in the 1970s
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Was a great game, been following since the development phase, really enjoyed the demo, and bought it the first day it came out. I've had a lot of fun with it up until recently. In sandbox mode the fermenting process gets stuck and wont resume, so you basically have a useless set of equipment and a worker tied up with doing nothing...every time...making sandbox mode essentially unplayable. I would happily recommend this game once the issue has been addressed but give that the topic has been…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't save. I've tried following the thread's suggestions. I regret the money I spent buying this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Moonshine Inc. takes the familiar business-management formula and gives it an unconventional identity by placing players in charge of an underground alcohol operation. Developed and published by Klabater, it combines economic management, production-chain optimization, employee supervision, technological progression, deliveries, and the constant danger of attracting law-enforcement attention. Rather than treating moonshining as a humorous backdrop for a conventional tycoon game, it attempts to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Honestly I am just frustrated because it seems kind of niche/unique game with interesting mechanics. My 50min game session: - Brand new savegame would not load, it is corrupted, it seems to be a recurring issue since launch (deal breaker) - 50fps in mid setting with RTX 4090 at 2k res - Does not support ultrawide No doubt I am coming back to it if this game receives patches... but at a rate of 2 patch a year, might take some times.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fine grind, a tale of trials and errors There is a lot here that is hit and miss. On the upside, Moonshine Inc is gon' learn you somethin about how real fermentation and distillation works. Through its recipes and interfaces, you'll learn the relationship between sugar and ethanol, between yeast and heat and time. That's super cool. On the downside, many of the mechanics are not well explained, and you will find yourself with ruined batches of booze without any inkling as to what went wrong.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would love to recommend this game but I can't. The game has some really fantastic mechanisms in it from recipe discovery to balancing trade-offs in production to managing resources and money to avoiding police visibility. The problem is that the user interface doesn't expose ANY of these in an interesting way to make them fun or even accessible to the user. Currently all the cool stuff is either cumbersome, buggy, or just not there at all. There are so many things missing from the UI that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, Waited On This One For Such A Long Time It Coming Out In June Of 2022, Even Writing The Company Giving That The Below Icons Had Explanations Not When Cursor Hovered Over Them But When The Tutorial Is Played & One Has To Push The Storage Button, It Will Push Not. Company Wrote Back Thanking This HouseHold For The Finding ThereOf Of The Programming Und It Was Fixed, Yet The Tutorial Is Messed. :) The Storage Button On The Tutorial Works Not, Though It Glows, It Will Push Not.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is broken It will say one thing like 100% offer acceptance for example, then you will get a rejection anyway. Or it says -1 police alert and the light alert doesn't go down. No idea what it actually wants you to do because what it shows doesn't match what it does.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So far the game has been extremely fun. The Developers are very active on their discord server and are very responsive. They continue to work hard on addressing bugs, can't wait to see what this game will become!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Super fun game with a few kinks to work out. As a novice distiller myself, I get really into this. I love all the different ingredients you can play with and this has even given me some ideas to try out in the real world. The management system and strategy aspect is great as well. A few things they can work on: - Big bug regarding delivery. I was trying to do a side quest in chapter 2 (deliver 200L). I made all my shine, and when I tried to deliver it, the trucks never left the base, but the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can't recommend this game in its current state. It feels like a new Early Access in the first 1-2 weeks. I didn't had any absolute Gamebreakers after 4 hours but everything feels kind of clunky, wierd and bugged. The sad thing is i have my fun with it but the bugs and wierd stuff corrupts this fun everytime. Considering the last Patch Notes are from January 2024 i don't think it gets polished any further. If the game gets polished a little bit more i will change my review.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not particularly deep as a strategy/resource management game, but quite fun as a little crafter game. Worth a decent 10-20 hours of your time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished the game! Pros: -Original idea on crafting system. You have to go through many steps to make the final products as good as possible. -Slow start but it's really good when you got all the perk and tool. Everything is very simple and easy to master - Story quest is cool and make senses. Cons: -1st hand guidance has so many texts. Should add some sign, arrow, highlight or indicator to make instruction less stale. -Hideout is pointless, just a bunch of workers move aimlessly -Police alert…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My car deliveries froze when I somehow dedicated a worker for cooking. He's delivering forever now. This game is just full of bugs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game definitely has potential. On the plus side is the amount of possibilities and the experimentation with recipes and all the actions that can be taken. It is not a game where you have to wait very long to unlock something. It is addictive and entertaining. Of course, there are minor bugs, but looking at the fact that the game has only just come out, you can't dismiss it because of this. A huge plus is the discord, where the devs are immediately on hand to help with questions or…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not bad, and didn't encounter any bugs or worse so far! It's only still a 6.5 on 10 because it seems pretty unpolished and needs several patches (also more content, for the price tag). I will return to this later, maybe in a couple of months, but I WILL NOT refund it, as it seems to be already ok.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →we have to brew
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Once you understand how production works, the game becomes tedious as there is no compelling content outside of production.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A fun little business sim I picked up discounted. It has some good depth to it, although I have only had access to half of the recipes/production methods as I am playing the campaign. The campaign moves at a nice rapid pace until you hit the Swamp area (third map) where one of the main unskippable missions is to trigger 6 random events, which as far as I know have a completely random chance of triggering. And now half a year in I have only triggered 2/6, so I guess I'm stuck in the swamp for a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unplayable because of bugs with stuck workers and stuck tasks in devices, that are unable to remove because of it. Like there are no batches, but there are tasks on devices. Let's see if this is fixed in a few months.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's good! git er done!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →In my all honestly the game is fun but also tedious once you get the general concept. It becomes fun and relaxing. Though i figure people may not like that idea. But an idea of relaxing making moonshine and selling is just right in my opinion. Just like weedcraft Inc. Another relaxing management game. That I highly recommend you try out. This Game has lot of potential can't wait and see what has in store.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I hate to say it but the game is dull. It would slightly more entertaining if we actually do the work in a 3D environment.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall this is a good game, gameplay is smooth, the music and art has a strong “murica” vibe。But as a new game, as expected there’s quite a lot of bug if your unlucky. I’ve just got up to chapter 2, and already encounter quite a few glitches, i hope the content creator can see this and patch it up soon. 1. After pushing the “delivery” button, there’s no response, and the progress bar (ie. red car icon) get stuck, as well as the map. 2. Chapter 2 “XX” mission guidelines are not clear enough…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The tutorial is horrendous and the game itself is buggy from the get go
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, first off, the actual game play is fun. The recipe discovery process is cool as hell. The only reason I am leaving a review is in the hopes that they address the issues. 1) This game needs some serious Q.A., way too many bugs to even go into here. But I am giving up on my third play through as each one has ended in one of these game breaking bugs. (The latest requires me to have over 1000 clients, I have 1100 and all my hotspots are about to get raided.) 2) You need to hire an actual…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Addicting.. It does need some work yet. Small little bugs that need to be fixed. 2 Patches already i imagine more patches are on the way.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very poor simulator
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Moonshine Inc. is a fascinating game. It takes time to learn all of the mechanics and discover new recipes, but it's all part of the fun. In terms of theme, I must say that this is a very unique game. The game can be difficult at times, but I'm not discouraged, and who knows, maybe I'll master it in time. I was pleasantly surprised to discover a story mode with hilarious characters. Overall, I would recommend that you try your hand at moonshine brewing!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The tutorial froze almost right away when it says to select supply. Had to skip it and click around to figure out the game. Then when I went to the second location there was nothing on the map. could not buy supplies which meant couldn't create anything, pretty much at that point gave up on the game since I tried twice restarting the game and cant progress anymore at that pont
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I've played the game for about 4.5 hours at this point, and that's just cuz I like to restart and min-max stuff. It runs like a pile of dog s@$#. I have a 2080 super and can't get more than 60 frames on the lowest settings on this Unity engine game. It is horrendously optimized. The crafting system looks in-depth with all their options and busy UI, but when you get down to it there's not a whole lot going on. Like another review said, it's more of a time sink than a continual…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yep. It's fun. I haven't found any bugs. Bargain on sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Игра - забагованное дерьмо, "разработчики", если можно так сказать - воры. Дважды писал им в Дискорд - никакого ответа. Обратился через их форму на их сайте - тишина. После 6 часов игры внезапно пропали все автосейвы, кроме самого первого, в конце обучающей миссии. Если вам некуда потратить ваши деньги - лучше сделать из них бумажные самолётики, чем покупать эту херню. === The game is a buggy piece of crap, the "developers", if I may say so, are thieves. I wrote to them twice on Discord -…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A great game, however still has some nasty bugs. Been enjoying for like 10hrs, finished 1st chapter, finished 2nd chapter and on the 3rd chapter my save game got stuck and cannot load it anymore. Now thats not a huge problem, however, when i decided to restart my game it turns out you have to go through all tutorials and campaign missions all over again. So that means my 10hrs of gameplay has to be repeated. No thanks, uninstall, wait for bug fixes and sandbox mode. Also once you buy your…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very unique and fun game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game full of bugs on release, but still manages to be entertaining. Pros: Interesting and innovative, seems like a good concept that has potential. The crafting system is something different that is interesting. If it didn't have all the bugs, the game would actually be worth the money and be quite entertaining. Cons: Complicated in some ways and not enough clarity and instructions on how to make proper batches. There are several intuitive things that are just missing like when…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →SUPER FUN, I was looking for a moonshine simulator and this one is coupled with growing a business. Very fun if you've ever brewed before. Great if you're unemployed and have an entrepreneur mind set. Hobby Distilling was just made legal in my state, one day I'd love to start crafting. I've encountered a few bugs but nothing that soft locks or breaks the process, typically I've found a work around. But over about 48 hrs of game play only 3-4 little hiccups. Other comments are a little too…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm having alot of fun with this game. I enjoy the business side of the game and making different types of moonshine. This type of game allows you too settle in for a days and spend time playing.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →To be honest the game is really good but i have got a few things that maby should be added and/or alterated 1.voice overs 2.the option the hints while creating the moonshine 3.bigger map more things to do other then that id say pick up the game my review video is bellow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnxhGBG5yc0
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good concept but poorly executed. Game mechanics are more complicated than it needs to be
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game has very high replay-ability. It's missing some stuff and there are a few bugs since the game was just released. If you like Moonshine, I reckon you want to be playing this here game and don't be makin' me tell you twice about that again, Dale.
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