In Moon Hunters, you play as ancient heroes whose mythology is being written in real time by the decisions you make in the game. (polygon.com)
Combat encounters are thick with tension because the soldiers are rendered as ancient heroes and living gods; the cutthroat business of managing a resource - starved caravan turns the player into a digital Snorri Sturluson, writing the epic of a brave army fighting back the forces of evil. (killscreen.com)
More specifically, only after Sinai did they develop the folklore of their ancient heroes — Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph — legends of whom contain a germ of history but are mostly self - serving folklore designed to prove that this slave people's ancestry was in fact not slavery but nobility and also to prove that this nomadic nation had a legitimate claim to that land which they were in fact dedicated to taking by military might. (religion-online.org)