MOONWRIGHT Puts a 1.3-Second Lunar Delay in the Player's Hands
Indie developer Oleg Fedorov announced MOONWRIGHT for PC on November 12, 2026 and opened its Steam store page. Players run a lunar mining company from a room on Earth, driving a rover with a 1.3-second one-way communication delay.
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Why it matters
The delay is the design: Fedorov is building a mining sim where the 1.3-second lag between command and rover, and the 1.3-second-old monitor feed, is the skill test rather than an obstacle to patch out.
Key Facts
- Oleg Fedorov announced MOONWRIGHT for PC on November 12, 2026 and opened its Steam store page.
- MOONWRIGHT is scheduled for release in Q4 2026 with Japanese display support.
- Rover commands take 1.3 seconds to reach the moon and the monitor feed is 1.3 seconds old.
- Players must repay $1,350 every week, and three missed repayments mean the bank takes all assets.
- The game is set in a 2 km square plot in the Taurus-Littrow Valley, where Apollo 17 landed.
Mined resources must be sold to repay $1,350 weekly, and missing three repayments means the bank takes all assets. Release is scheduled for Q4 2026 with Japanese display support.
The rover sits in a 2 km square plot in the Taurus-Littrow Valley, the Apollo 17 landing site. Sun and Earth positions are reproduced from their actual relationship as seen from the lunar surface, and day and night each last about two weeks. Daytime temperatures reach about 111°C and the drill overheats in sunlight. At night, around -180°C, the battery cools, its capacity drops, and power consumption rises.
Eight resource types can be mined, from low-value regolith to crater ice and helium-3, and prices move daily, so when to sell matters as much as what to dig. Proceeds go to the weekly $1,350 repayment or to upgrades: drill and cargo for speed and load, power and driving for reaching distant deposits.
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