RedMoon : IDLE RPG

Introduction

RedMoon : IDLE RPG sends a small pixel-art hero out to grow stronger under a crimson moon, auto-battling waves of monsters, summoning field bosses, and pushing into raids and dungeons for better equipment. It's free to play, developed by MYMEStudio and published by Gonggamorecontents, and it released 1 October 2025 to a small but clearly Mostly Negative reception — 48 total reviews, and this review reads the complete 15-review English-language sample rather than a subset, given how small it is. What's unusual about this game isn't the existence of launch bugs — plenty of small releases have those — it's how precisely and publicly documented the central one is, straight from the developer's own words.

A bug the developer confirmed, then apparently never fixed

Two days after release, MYMEStudio posted the game's only news update, titled "Known Bugs and Upcoming Fixes." Its top listed item, under the heading "Critical Issue," reads: "Game progress is not saved properly (in some cases, progress resets to level 500 after restarting)." That's not a player's inference or a guess about what might be going wrong — it's the studio's own written acknowledgement of the exact failure players go on to describe. And they do describe it, at length and consistently: "Everytime you quit the game, it does NOT SAVE your progress. I lost about 25 hours of progress," reads one review. "The game doesn't save properly. I lost all the progress I made," reads another, dated March 2026 — five months after the developer's bug notice. A third, from June 2026 — eight months after launch — reports currency being spent in a bugged shop with nothing received in return, a related but distinct symptom of the same underlying instability. No further update has been posted since that single October 2025 notice, and this review found no evidence in the sample or the news feed that the promised patch ever shipped.

For a genre built entirely around long-term, persistent progress, a save-corruption bug this central and this well-documented is close to a genre-defining failure. It isn't a balance complaint or a matter of taste — it's the single mechanic every other part of an idle RPG depends on, reported broken by the people who make the game and by the people who play it, with nothing in between to suggest it's been resolved.

What's underneath the bug

Setting the save issue aside, the reviews describe a reasonably competent, if roughly tuned, idle RPG. The pixel art draws real, specific praise even from critical reviewers — "the game looks good and has potential," reads one thumbs-down review, immediately before listing its complaints. The core loop of auto-battling and gearing up is described as enjoyable in short bursts by more than one reviewer. The power curve, though, is reported as poorly calibrated: one reviewer describes dealing "millions of damage" within the first two minutes, only to be fighting enemies with a few thousand hit points half an hour later, before hitting a wall in Hard mode where "the game just dies" and no further progress feels achievable. Additional reported bugs — monsters failing to spawn in dungeons, bosses appearing behind the player character, dungeon tickets consumed incorrectly — read as symptoms of the same rushed, unpolished launch state the developer's own bug notice described.

Value and monetisation

There's genuinely nothing to criticise here: RedMoon costs nothing, and neither this game's store page nor its review sample mentions any in-app purchase of any kind. For a free-to-play idle RPG, that's an unusually clean record. It just isn't much comfort when the thing being offered for free carries a real, developer-acknowledged risk of losing everything you've built.

Final Verdict

RedMoon : IDLE RPG has real, if modest, charm — pleasant pixel art and a functional core loop that several reviewers genuinely enjoyed in the moments the game was working correctly. What this review can't recommend past is a save-corruption bug the developer itself confirmed in writing within 48 hours of release, promised to fix, and then appears to have abandoned alongside the rest of the game — with the exact same symptom still being reported by players eight months later. Being free removes the financial risk, but not the risk to your time. Until there's evidence this specific, acknowledged bug has actually been addressed, this is one to skip.