Thousands of years ago in the 90s when Independence Day came out some of the toys came with PC games on floppy disks (yeah, those). I had one where you played as one of the aliens on the mothership, and you sat at your console and worked the controls in pursuit of your unclear, malevolent alien purposes. I had no idea what I was doing in the game, but I was captivated by it and remember playing for hours.
This is kind of like that, but honestly I feel like I have a much better handle on this game. I'm not sure if this will come off as a compliment, but it's meant that way. Great, very strange work!