Cheat Engine is a free Windows memory scanner that can find and change values in a running game, and some Moon Sweepers players have tried it to add money. The short answer: there is no official cheat table, no built-in cheat menu and no verified working method for Moon Sweepers. In one release-day co-op stream, a player found the money value with Cheat Engine, but every change reverted immediately.
If you still want to experiment, keep it to your own single-player world, back up your saves first, and download Cheat Engine only from its official source. Never use it in someone else's lobby. Moon Sweepers has shared progression in co-op, so an edit can affect the whole crew, and the host can kick or ban you.
Moon Sweepers and Cheat Engine at a Glance
| Question | What is known |
|---|---|
| Built-in cheats or console commands | None found |
| Official cheat table for Moon Sweepers | None verified |
| Money found in memory | Reported by one player on release day |
| Money edit kept | No; the value reverted in that co-op session |
| Engine | Unity |
| Safest place to experiment | Your own solo world, with a save backup |
| Multiplayer use | Not recommended; shared upgrades and money affect the crew |
| Current game version | 1.0.3, with frequent patches |
What Cheat Engine Does
Cheat Engine is a memory scanner and debugger first created in 2000 by Eric Heijnen, known as Dark Byte. It reads the memory of a running program, lets you search for a value you can see on screen, narrows the results as the value changes, and can then freeze or change it. The current major release is version 7.7, published on May 29, 2026.
A few features matter for a game like Moon Sweepers:
- Value scanning. You search for a number, such as money, then rescan after it changes to narrow down the address.
- Cheat tables. Saved .ct files store addresses and scripts so other players can reuse them. None has been verified for Moon Sweepers.
- Speedhack. It speeds up or slows down a game's clock. Recent versions improved speedhack for Unity games, which is the engine Moon Sweepers uses.
- Mono and Unity inspection. Cheat Engine can inspect the .NET side of Unity games. This is an advanced feature and needs real technical knowledge.
Cheat Engine's own site says you must be 18 or older to install it, that it is meant for private and educational use, and that you should check you are not violating a game's terms before attaching it to a process.
What Players Have Reported in Moon Sweepers
The clearest report comes from a release-day co-op stream, before patch 1.0.3. After finishing a session, the streamer opened Cheat Engine, attached it to Moon Sweepers and scanned for the money balance.
The balance in the corner keeps changing while machines run.
What happened, in order:
- The money balance kept rising during the scan because automated machines were still earning income, so the value changed between every search.
- After several rescans the streamer did find the address that matched the on-screen money.
- Changing the value did not stick. The number reverted straight back.
- The streamer could not pause the game to hold the value still, because it was a multiplayer session.
- The conclusion on stream was that money editing with Cheat Engine did not work in that setup.
That is one community report, from one session, on the launch build. It does not prove that Cheat Engine never works in Moon Sweepers, and it does not prove the opposite either.
Why Money Edits May Not Stick
The streamer's own explanation was that multiplayer was the obstacle. That is plausible but unconfirmed. In co-op, money is reported to be shared across the crew, and since 1.0.3 the whole crew uses the host's upgrade matrix. Values that matter to everyone may be controlled somewhere other than the address you changed.
Other practical reasons scans are hard in this game:
- Income from belts, depots and robot cleaners keeps changing your balance.
- The deposit intake pays as dust and stone arrive by belt, so money updates continuously.
- The displayed figure may not be the only copy of the value the game uses.
If you try a solo world, stopping all automation first gives you a steadier number to scan.
Single-Player Versus Multiplayer Risk
Moon Sweepers supports solo play and online co-op lobbies of up to 16 players. The risk of using a memory editor depends heavily on which you are in.
| Scenario | Risk | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Your own solo world, saves backed up | Lowest | Only your progress is affected, and you can restore a backup |
| Your own solo world, no backup | Medium | A crash or bad edit could leave a save you cannot recover |
| Hosting friends who agreed to it | Medium | The host's upgrade matrix is shared, so edits change everyone's game |
| Joining someone else's lobby | High | You change a shared world without consent and can be kicked or banned |
| Public or large lobbies | Highest | Up to 16 players share one world, and disruption is easy to trace |
Patch 1.0.3 gave hosts a Your Crew list in the ESC menu. From there the host can kick or ban any player, and banned players cannot join that save again unless the host unbans them.
No anti-cheat system is mentioned on the game's store listing. That is not an invitation to cheat in co-op. It only means the main consequence is social: ruining a shared world for other people and losing access to it.
Achievements are another unknown. The game has 33 Steam achievements, including milestones for money earned and spent. Nobody has reported how edited values interact with them, so if achievements matter to you, do not experiment on the world you use for them.
Back Up Your Moon Sweepers Save Before Any Edit
Before attaching Cheat Engine, protect your progress. Steam's cloud configuration for the game points to this save folder:
%USERPROFILE%/AppData/LocalLow/DragDropGames/MoonSweepers/MoonSessions
Follow these steps every time:
- Exit Moon Sweepers completely and wait for Steam to finish syncing cloud saves.
- Copy the whole MoonSessions folder to a safe location outside the Steam folder.
- Start or load a test world you do not care about, rather than your main base.
- After any experiment, close the game normally before checking the result.
- If anything looks wrong, close the game, replace the MoonSessions folder with your backup and relaunch.
Two game behaviours make this extra important:
- Steam Cloud syncs the folder. An edited or broken save can be uploaded and then downloaded on your other PCs. Your manual backup is the copy you control.
- Saves repair themselves. Since 1.0.3, every save is checked before it replaces the previous one, and a save the game considers damaged is repaired from its backup or a recent snapshot. You get a message when that happens. If you see one after editing, assume your change did not survive and restore your own backup if needed.
Download Cheat Engine Safely
Most problems people blame on Cheat Engine come from the installer or from fake downloads, not from the scanner itself.
- Use the official source. Download from the official Cheat Engine website or its official code repository. Avoid "Moon Sweepers cheat" downloads on random sites, which are a common way to spread malware.
- Decline the bundled offers. The free installer is known to offer extra, potentially unwanted software. Players recommend declining each offer manually rather than clicking through quickly.
- Expect antivirus warnings. Security software often flags Cheat Engine because reading and changing another program's memory looks like malware behaviour. That is a common false positive for the official build, but it is also why a fake build is easy to disguise.
- Ad-free options exist. The project offers an ad-free installer to its paying supporters, and technical users can compile it from the published source code.
- Be careful with administrator rights. Cheat Engine may ask for them to access another process. Only grant them to a build you are sure is genuine.
Name Mix-Ups When Searching for Cheats
Search results for Moon Sweepers cheats often mix in other games. An old Kongregate browser shooter called Moon Sweeper, from 2009, has typed cheat codes posted in its comments. Those codes are for that browser game and do nothing in Moon Sweepers. Moonsweeper, the 1983 Atari-era game, is also unrelated. Moon Sweepers by DragDrop Games has no known typed cheat codes.
When Cheating Does Not Fix the Real Problem
Many players reach for cheats because progress slows down, so it helps to know what is actually slowing you. Highly rated reviews describe hitting a hard plateau where no more upgrades can be bought while well under 1% of the Moon is clean. One solo player with every economy and vehicle upgrade and ten extra J.O.O.N.A.S units reported about 0.6% completion.
Extra money does not raise that ceiling. If you already own the upgrades, a bigger balance buys nothing new. What players are asking the developer for instead is bigger machines, upgradable processing machines and faster belts, which only a patch can add.
There is also a known bug worth checking before blaming slow income: J.O.O.N.A.S units stopping when players move far away is still listed by the developer as an open issue. If your automated cleaners seem to stall, that may be the cause, and no memory editor will fix it.
For many players, the honest takeaway is the one the release-day streamer reached on stream: cheating removes the main reason to play a game built around turning a toothbrush into a lunar cleaning operation. If you do experiment, keep it solo, keep a backup, and keep it out of other people's worlds.