Jason Schreier

So Pragmata is a third-person shooter.

that has a unique mechanic behind it, a unique hacking mechanic.

It is set on the moon at some undisclosed point in the future.

You play as a human named Hugh, who is part of a sort of salvage check-in corporate team that's kind of sent to this moon base that is a corporate-controlled research base on the moon.

They're sent to check in because there hasn't been any communications from the moon.

And as we know, if you make a moon base and they're doing top-secret research and then suddenly their comms cut off, everything is probably fine.

You don't have to worry.

about it yeah it's gonna be okay that's what the game's about he goes there and everything's ship shape and then he goes home he's like they show him a little bit around they show him how they're doing their research and then he takes off it's pretty cool no mad scientists there doing weird shit no rogue ai it's like the artemis mission it just goes well yeah they just he just takes right around the moon and like take some beautiful photographs it's

It's so true.

Oh, man.

The Artemis mission is funny because I just watched Project Hail Mary.

And, like, having seen this incredibly high wire act, you know, the fictional outer space adventure where everything goes wrong and they get by, you know, on the skin of their teeth.

Then watching just normal astronauts, like, doing a good job.

And like landing safely.

In my MBA, the word moon appears enough times.

So, yeah, so Hugh, played by David Menken, arrives and very quickly the station AI turns on him and his team, kills all of his friends in a kind of shocking opening sequence that is, like, loosely referenced at points in the story, but also kind of goes unmentioned at other points.

Maybe he didn't really like those guys.

There's also one line where Hugh is like, God, kids, who would want kids?

Ugh, or something like that at the very beginning.

So Hugh is alone pretty quickly.