Moonlight Peaks lets you romance 23 different residents, and reaching eight hearts with any of them unlocks a full wedding. Here is exactly how the relationship system works, from your first gift to the day you say “I do.”
Who you can romance in Moonlight Peaks
The dating pool covers six supernatural families plus a handful of characters who do not belong to any family at all.
Romance options come from vampires, werewolves, seers, witches, humans, and mermaids, along with characters like Death and a Love Demon who stand outside those families. Every resident’s appearance is set up without a fixed gender, so nothing about how you customize your own character locks you out of pursuing anyone on the list. Not everyone in town is available though. Mayor Brook Logan and the event host Pumpkin Head are regular townsfolk, not romance candidates, so do not waste gifts trying to court them.
How to raise hearts and build affection
Relationship points build through two daily actions: talking and gifting.
Each day, you get one chance to speak with a character and hand over an item, and doing both raises your standing with them. Points go up further if the item happens to be something they like, and further still if it is something they love. The game flags those reactions in your gifting history using a star for liked items and a heart for loved ones. A separate relationship menu lets you check your progress with any resident, showing whether that day’s conversation and gift have already been logged and what you have handed them recently. The first four hearts on a character’s profile cover ordinary friendship. Once dating begins, a second row of red hearts fills in alongside them to measure the romantic side of the relationship on its own.
How to start dating in Moonlight Peaks
Physical affection and dating both unlock at specific heart thresholds.
At two hearts, you can hug a character, and that counts toward their daily affection tracker. At four hearts, you get the option to ask them out, and they accept without issue. Once you are dating, hugs turn into daily kisses, and you can ask your partner out on a date by talking to them. That date does not play out immediately. It happens at the start of the next day and takes the form of a short hands-on task, like putting together a flower arrangement in whatever color scheme your partner wants, or getting a marshmallow toasted just the way they like it. Get one of these tasks wrong and you actually lose relationship points, which pushes you to pay attention to each partner’s individual tastes rather than clicking through on autopilot.
You are allowed to date more than one character at a time. Partners will notice and comment if you are juggling multiple relationships, though it plays out as mild jealousy rather than a hard breakup. Turn down date invitations too often, on the other hand, and that partner will end things and go quiet for a few days before they are willing to forgive you.
How to unlock marriage and get married
Marriage becomes available once you hit eight hearts, split between four pink and four red.
After finishing a date with a character at eight hearts, you get the option to propose. From there you set a wedding date, which must fall at least two days after the proposal with no apparent upper limit on how far out you can push it. Locking in that date also opens up a new outfit at the town’s clothing store, Third Eye Threads, and you are free to put it on right away instead of waiting for the ceremony. There is no risk of the wedding sneaking up on you unnoticed either, since your cat interrupts you on the actual day and insists you change outfits no matter what you happen to have on.
Marriage does not overhaul the game, but it does add a few permanent touches. You unlock an achievement for it, gain new dialogue options with your spouse that were not there before, and there is a chance you will find them already home when a new night starts. One confirmed limit worth knowing up front: there are no children in Moonlight Peaks, so marriage does not lead into a family mechanic.
How to break up or get divorced
If a relationship or marriage is not working out, Llemi can undo it.
Llemi is usually found outside their house in the top right of the map, an area that requires swimming to reach and unlocks during the main story. Since canceling a relationship or marriage through Llemi is treated as a magical process rather than a normal breakup, there is no social penalty for doing it.
What you get from building relationships
Building relationships pays off outside of dialogue and story scenes.
Getting close to residents unlocks special blueprints and crafting materials that feed back into farming and home building, giving you a reason to build friendships across the whole town rather than just with your chosen partner. Marrying also comes with a specific perk tied to the game’s vampire theme: you can turn your spouse into a vampire, so settling down with a mortal, werewolf, or witch does not mean watching them age while you stay the same.
Best gifts for Death and where to find it
Death is one of the least conventional romance options, and it has its own gifting rules worth knowing.
You will find Death at its house in the center of town near the docks, often visible standing in the window at the front of the building. Death introduces itself early in the story on its own, so you are not likely to miss meeting it. Death also has no family tied to it, which means there is no birthday event to plan around, so building the relationship really just comes down to showing up with a gift every day until the eight hearts needed to propose are reached.
| Reaction | Gifts |
|---|---|
| Loved | Black azalea flowers |
| Liked | Homemade juice, honey, beer, wine and other drinks, berries and similar crops, purple flowers, forageable mushrooms, cupcakes and other desserts |
| Disliked | None confirmed yet |
Black azalea flowers are the gift to prioritize since they raise hearts fastest, but the wide list of liked items means you have plenty of backup options if your azalea supply runs short.
Death also plays a role in the Soul Blob collection system. Meeting Death and unlocking its storyline triggers an event where it hands over the Net and sets you loose to track down 100 Soul Blobs hidden throughout the areas you have access to, a hunt tied into the Ambrosia Mansion storyline around The Dinner Party.
| Soul Blobs caught | Reward |
|---|---|
| 20 | Antique Clock |
| 50 | Antique Clock |
| 100 | Antique Clock, plus the Skulls in a Net achievement |
Each Antique Clock slows the passage of night, and the first one arrives the day after you hit that milestone, delivered as soon as you next step outside your house. Play Now!
Frequently Asked Questions
How many characters can you romance in Moonlight Peaks?
You can romance 23 residents across six supernatural families, plus characters outside those families like Death.
Can you date more than one character at once?
Yes. You can pursue multiple relationships at the same time, though your partners will notice and may comment on it.
How many hearts do you need to get married?
You need eight hearts total, split between four pink hearts for friendship and four red hearts for romance.
Can you have children in Moonlight Peaks?
No. Marriage is confirmed in the game, but there is no feature for raising children.
Can you get divorced?
Yes. Llemi, found near their house in the top right of the map, can cancel relationships and marriages without any social penalty.
