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Moonstone: A Hard Days Knight is a fantasy action role-playing game released for MS-DOS. It was published by Mindscape International Ltd. The game supports one to four players simultaneously, with the core experience remaining consistent regardless of player count.

Players control a knight tasked with locating a powerful artifact known as the moonstone. The game world is navigated from an overhead map perspective, where players can explore various locations. These include enchanted sites, towns for purchasing equipment or gambling, and numerous cabins that serve as lairs for enemy beasts. Each cabin typically contains two or more creatures to defeat, with the specific rewards and enemy placement varying from game to game. A persistent world system ensures that if a player defeats some, but not all, beasts in a location, the remaining enemies will still be present for future encounters, whether by the same player or another.

Progression involves moving across the map, engaging in real-time combat with monsters, and gathering resources. A notable feature is the potential for player versus player conflict; knights can encounter each other on the map and duel, with the victor able to take money or weapons from the defeated. The primary objective of finding the moonstone represents only the initial phase of the adventure, with further narrative developments occurring after the artifact is secured.