{"rewrite":{"id":"r_e0a7702473fc005d496e1c7e","clusterId":"c_917b6e97b88de7920276d14d","slug":"moonwright-puts-a-1-3-second-lunar-delay-in-the-player-s-hands","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"MOONWRIGHT Puts a 1.3-Second Lunar Delay in the Player's Hands","summary":"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. 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.","whyItMatters":"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.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEight 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.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"MOONWRIGHT: a lunar mining sim where every rover command takes 1.3 seconds to arrive and the monitor feed is 1.3 seconds old. Sell resources, repay $1,350 a week, miss three and the bank takes everything. PC, Q4 2026, Japanese display support.","twitterPost":"MOONWRIGHT announced for PC, Q4 2026: run a lunar mining company from Earth with a 1.3-second one-way rover delay. Mine 8 resource types, sell on daily prices, repay $1,350 weekly. Three missed payments and the bank takes all assets.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Oleg Fedorov announced MOONWRIGHT, a PC mining sim set in the Taurus-Littrow Valley, with a 1.3-second one-way communication delay built into rover control. Players sell eight resource types at daily prices to make a $1,350 weekly repayment, and three misses hand the bank everything. 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