The dark side of the moon

The dark side of the moon

Nothing in this corner costs anything, pays anything, or gets rebated. Everywhere else on the site it is a 1% opening fee, a holding fee tick that arrives every eight hours whether you want it or not, and 3.5% of whatever fees you paid coming back like an apology. Here, none of that.

The unlit side of a moon as a black disc in a black frame, outlined by one thin bright arc of light with a faint violet glow.
The side of the moon you cannot see from here. Not made of cheese. Probably.

Why any of this exists

Write about a fee schedule for long enough and something happens to you. You start reading holding-fee documentation at 3am. You work out that 3.5% of a ten dollar opening fee is thirty-five cents. You do the same maths on a hundred dollar fee and get three dollars and fifty, and the phrase "generous rebate" stops meaning anything at all. Then, quietly, you open a text editor and start building a spaceship. That is the honest origin story of everything below.

One moon, made of cheese, eighteen thousand units away. A debris field in the middle, a cockpit around you. One canvas element, about four hundred lines of maths, zero fees. No verification flow, no deposit screen, no leverage slider, no crypto network mismatch to explain to Support. The only currency is points, and points are worth what points are worth.

Cheese Run

First person, out of the front of a small snubfighter that has clearly seen some things. Arrow keys or WASD to steer, space to fire, shift for boost. Rocks arrive faster the longer you last. A hit costs a shield. The third one ends the run. Reach the cheese moon with shields left and you get paid in bonus points, which, at a rate of nothing per point, still works out to more generous compensation than 3.5% of a ten dollar fee.

If you have played a certain 1977 trench run, you will recognise the shape of it. We are not going to name the film, because trademark lawyers are the one part of this project with less humour than the compliance pages.

Play Cheese Run

What is not in here

No leverage. No positions. No simulated balance pretending to teach you something about markets. If you want the free interface practice, Moon documents a Play Money mode with a fake 100,000 balance and unlimited refills, and we have awrite up of what it does and does not teach you. Cheese Run teaches you nothing at all, which is at least advertised up front.

Everything commercial lives back on the other pages. Therakeback rebate on fees, thefee breakdown that explains what the rebate is coming off, and the holding fee that Moon will not put a number on because doing so would let you calculate what leaving a bet open overnight actually costs. Those pages have numbers, a link and a disclosure. This one has an asteroid field.

Cheese Run involves no money, no wagering and no account. Real wagering on Moon.com is a separate thing entirely: leveraged wagering can lose the full stake in seconds, it is for adults aged 18 or over, and availability restrictions apply. If gambling is causing harm, help is listed on the responsible play page.