I doubt Mooncrash is a secret cry for help from the game’s developers (at least not entirely). Time taken away from family is just one oft-cited consequence of the so-called “crunch.” A particular set of skills Game making as a whole is so especially rife with exploitative work conditions that the practice gets its own special, cutesy name. It’s hard not to draw parallels between the silent protagonist’s plight and that of many game developers. Advertisementīut it’s not just a personal connection to gig work that make Mooncrash’s winks and nods resonate. It’s the same unease more and more workers feel every day as parts of the world slip further into the gig economy and unregulated spec work. A certain unease still settles over me between every “virtual reality” run. Mooncrash’s new take on this “fantasy” hit all to close to home for me, in the way that Prey’s boring, featureless aliens never really did. Since Mooncrash starts with the simulation as its premise instead of a last-second rug pull, it has the time necessary to support the DLC’s plot rather than undercut it. They’re strapped into a simulation of the facility after its fallen to an alien outbreak, an obvious extension of Prey’s ridiculous twist ending. See, your player character isn’t actually on a Moon base. Mooncrash has you instead playing as a contractor, working to escape those corporate overlords by playing and replaying a violent simulation to their arbitrary satisfaction. The first game presented its alternate universe-where JFK was never assassinated and corporations are somehow even more all-powerful-through the eyes of the corporate elite. And, perhaps most interestingly, you still get to explore Prey’s unusual alternate timeline, through from a very different perspective than that in the main game. Mooncrash is still a first-person shooter where you can sneak, shoot, or use psychic powers to get past goopy aliens called “Typhon.” You still rifle your way through garbage cans and shipping containers for bullets and expired snack cakes. While the objective might be different, the basic gameplay in Mooncrash is awfully similar to the core Prey. That could mean repairing an escape pod or zipping through an alien portal to a shoe store on Earth. The objective is simple: you need to escape the Moon by any means necessary. That means death resets most of your progress, and while certain character abilities carry over into each individual “run,” total progress resets to zero with every load, along with inventory, item, and enemy placement. The DLC's surprise announcement and release at E3 2018 promised an endlessly repeatable, never-repeating experience-a distinctly roguelike take on the first-person shooter genre. Links: Steam | Official Web site Prey: Mooncrash is hiding a lot more beneath the surface than its premise lets on.
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Platform: Windows (reviewed), Xbox One, PS4 (requires Prey base game)
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