MOONYCAT Entertainment

MOONYCAT Entertainment was an independent French video game development studio founded in Montpellier in July 2016. It focused on story-driven action-adventure games for PC and consoles, combining stylised visual storytelling with environmental exploration, puzzles and character-based gameplay. Its creative direction centred on poetic, cross-generational adventures.

The studio’s work covered game pre-production and production, including environment art, level design, storyboarding, cinematics, character development and world lore. Its approach brought narrative design together with atmospheric lighting and stylised 3D environments, using Unreal Engine 4 as a production platform.

An adventure about restoring a threatened world

The studio’s flagship project, Metaphora: The Moonycat Quest, was conceived as an episodic action-adventure for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Its setting was a dying world contaminated by an invasive pathogen called the Darkseed. Players followed the Moonycat, the last of his kind, and Lux, a star-spirit who accompanied him on his quest.

The central gameplay involved switching between the two characters to explore environments, solve puzzles and fight contamination. Their complementary abilities supported a solo cooperative structure, with restoring corrupted regions and planetary ecosystems forming part of the adventure’s narrative and gameplay. The project connected its environmental themes directly to the player’s actions within the world.

MOONYCAT worked with external publisher Super.com, subsequently known as SuperGG, to bring the project to its planned platforms. A trailer was presented at GDC in March 2019, and the studio continued recruiting during that year. The game ultimately remained unreleased and was cancelled.

Company history

The business later encountered financial difficulties. Judicial liquidation opened in March 2022, and proceedings concluded in September 2024 because of insufficient assets. The company was struck off the French commercial register that month and ceased operations. Its surviving public project materials document an unfinished narrative adventure rather than a released game catalogue.