Lunar Flight: Anniversary Edition
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhDK-N64Nn0
The addition of hands has rounded this indie experience off nicely. It feels very fitting to poke cockpit buttons above your head and madly wrestle a virtual joystick about as you execute your sky courier routines.
It's hugely niche, but I'm loving the strange space serenity it inspires as you win your stately battle with physics and gravity. Counterpointed by moments of building tension and sheer terror as the delicate lunar lander starts sliding out of your control.
I have a suspicion that this is essentially Euro Truck simulator on the moon, as all you really do is manage to arrive somewhere without smashing yourself to pieces. But instead of dealing with traffic you get overtaken by your own bad decision from 2 minutes ago, as physics catches up with you...
There are gyros to be bought that can stabilise you more, and powerful jets to help you lug bigger cargos about. And a Mars setting where you fling yourself into ever more dangerous giant arcs. But essentially that's the game... Going places in low gravity without dying.
The background astro chatter may cycle almost immediately, but neither it or the astro soundtrack have outstayed their welcome yet.
3_5(+++)