This real-time strategy game with survival elements comes from the independent Polish studio Jujubee, which has already treated players to gems like Deep Diving Simulator, Kursk and others. In the game you have to make tough and sometimes morally ambiguous decisions that directly affect how the story unfolds.
You can download Dark Moon for free and find yourself in the future. Humanity, represented by the Moon Shell corporation, is successfully settling the Moon and setting up mining operations and other facilities on its surface. You play a successful engineer sent to the satellite to oversee construction. However, space turns out to be far from friendly. A coronal mass ejection hits, making sunlight deadly for the explorers. The communications relay has been destroyed, and all contact with Earth is cut off. The people left on the Moon must survive at any cost and find a way back to their home planet.
The action is viewed from a bird's-eye perspective. You command a huge mobile base full of survivors. Here you develop innovative structures, set up production, and research and master high-tech processes. The base is also home to your crew, so it needs to be made comfortable. It is also where you extract the resources you need to reach your goal. Because the base is mobile, it can keep moving from place to place to escape the lethal effects of sunlight. Keep in mind, though, that the lunar surface has its own obstacles and unexpected surprises, so before moving into a new area you need to scan it first with your scout drones.
The game puts special emphasis on interacting with the crew of your mobile base. As you play, the hero meets all kinds of people who want to join the crew and help reach the common goal. But your companions' work comes at a price: you have to meet their needs. Beyond a safe, solid roof over their heads, they expect food and psychological comfort. Not everyone is willing to work side by side, either, and some start scheming, rebelling and sabotaging the effort. That forces the hero into hard moral choices, such as dismissing a hardworking crew member to make room for a survivor with unique abilities. You can't stay in one place for too long, so you can't take everyone who wants to come aboard, and some will be left to their fate.
The visuals are a real treat. The world is carefully crafted and nicely animated, and a high-quality soundtrack sets the overall mood.
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