Moonlit Masquerade

Controls

Mouse on a computer, touch on a phone or tablet. Some games also take the arrow keys or the letter keys, and the game will say so when it starts.

Take it with you

Scan to open Moonlit Masquerade on your phone.

Built on a specific painting: Fragonard's The Swing, from 1766, which is where the lantern-lit garden and the particular pinks and creams come from.

Having a real source makes the wardrobe hang together in a way that generic period games do not manage. The eighteenth century silhouette is extreme, wide skirts and a tight bodice, and it only works if you commit to it: half-measures read as fancy dress. The wigs are the other decision, and they are more of a shape than a hairstyle.

Marie Antoinette and Belle Époque cover the neighbouring centuries here.