REAL MOON

For a space junkie like me, this game is absolutely beautiful. I just wish there were more missions. Heck, it would be awesome if you could visit the Apollo 11 landing site! Right now it feels more like a demo, but it's free, so I can't really fault it.

The store page may give you the impression you'll explore the whole moon, picking any part of its surface and eventually walk around it. In reality it's one small patch of terrain in a single level. You reach the edge in minutes, hit an invisible wall, and that's it. t's not "the moon", just a tiny sandbox with low gravity based on a small area on the moon. The store page doesnt really promises more than that, but its easy to read too much into it.

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REAL MOON is a very different kind of game because it is not really trying to give me a normal game loop. Instead, it lets me explore a recreation of the Moon that was built using real observation data. I can walk around the surface, drive a lunar rover and take in the environment at my own pace. The whole thing feels more like an interactive space experience than a traditional game, and I think that is important to keep in mind before playing it. The biggest thing I liked is how convincing the lunar surface can feel. The terrain uses high resolution elevation data, crater distribution data and rock placement based on observation and scientific research. The project was also developed through joint research between JAXA and historia. The positions of the Sun, Earth and Moon can change over time as well, which is a nice detail that makes the environment feel less like a static level. Driving the rover was probably the part I enjoyed the most. Walking around the surface is interesting for a while, but getting behind the rover gives me a better sense of how large and empty the environment actually is. I like being able to simply explore without enemies or a bunch of distractions get…

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