Deliver Us The Moon

Wish the game was alittle bit longer but always liked it. Played once on xbox then bought it on steam and played it again.

A beautiful linear story delivered with some puzzle platformer(ish) based gameplay. The gameplay and story is engaging enough for you to look past over the downsides. And to think this game were made when the studio is very small is impressive with amount of work it delivered. It worth the price just wait for sale.

I completed nearly the entire game and yet I found myself slapping quit and uninstall, unable to stomach the crappy plot points between the terrible and frustrating movement mechanics and insulting "puzzles". From the very beginning their view of how rockets and space works hurt my soul, and I regret not taking the hint of what was to come. Below is just a few nonsense plot points that drove me nuts, and keep in mind, this is a story game, the "gameplay" can be summed up as a walking simulator, but the movement in that walking is terrible, you press a directional key but you'll be fighting some invisible force preventing from moving, jumping, running, or otherwise pushing through is the only solution. Year is 2030 and they decided to make a moon base to use a FUSION reactor to send power back to earth via a microwave... instead of just building wind and solar... yeah okayy... Lets launch a rocket into space that only takes 30 seconds to get into orbit and the earths size changes drastically as if this was a cartoon... huh... rightt... Station power low? Well lets use a PLASMA cutter arm... yeah okayy... [We need a plasma cutter for future "puzzles"] SURE lets take off this plasma cutter from this robotic arm the size of a watermelon and strap it to our wrist LOL OKAY! The "Power Network" relies on sending power via microwaves laser things locally on the moon instead of idk... a power line... right... ok.. [Walks by hundreds of cans of helium-3 on the way to the reactor] "They took all the helium-3!" ... what? ... okay.. well can we go mine more? No? You need THOSE cans of helium-3? .. Right.. "The reactor is overloading" ... But its shutting down... "The power has nowhere to go! Its at 0.5%" ... Okay, isn't it going down a good thing? "Its gonna blow!" wtf is going on... "Phew we shut it down just in time" ... bro.. it was shutting ITSELF down as it ran out of fuel... ahh the pain.

I was initially going to leave a positive review but a game breaking bug completely ruined the experience for me, the robot companion disappeared on the fourth level after quitting the game and playing again later, you can't continue the game without it. I even went into level select to try to restart it to try to fix it but said level didn't show up and I didn't want to have to go back to a previous one so I stopped playing and uninstalled. Upon googling for a different solution it seems to be a common problem going back years which the devs have completely ignored and not bothered to fix. Its really a shame because I was enjoying the game up to that point.

Прикольная индюшка на вечер. Проходится буквально за 5-6 часов Очень атмосферная игра. Виды космоса + саундтрек делают свое дело. Сюжет напрямую на не подается. Единственное что говорят типо в будущем на Земле все плохо и поэтому на Луне построили базу для выработки энергии и отправки ее на Землю. Пока однажды там , что-то не произошло и связь пропала. И вот через 5 лет нас отправляют разобраться , что же произошло и восстановить подачу энергии. О том что произошло на базе нам подают через записки которые мы будем находить на базе. Я если честно сразу не понял что к чему и пришлось идти в гугл чтобы собрать все воедино. Геймплейно это простая бродилка с элементами головоломок. В плане работоспособности игры есть конечно проблемы. Игра почему-то при каждом запуске так и норовила поставить разрешение в 4К. Играть конечно можно было но карточку конечно грело прилично. Первая половина игры работает нормально, а под конец начинается ппц. При резких поворотах камеры она начинала сильно тормозить и дергаться. Решилось все переключением в DX12 на DX11. Начали появляться баги. То гг не хочет идти, то откидывало от стены как пружиной. Так же не хватило возможности цепляться за уступы ибо герой не всегда хотел допрыгивать. В общем игра прикольная. Атмосферное приключение на вечерок-другой.

As much as I wanted to like this game I just can't because it's incredibly boring. The gameplay is clunky and basic (Having a game without an FOV slider made in 2019 feels criminal), There's very little to do asides from walk from point A to point B and hit the odd button, all while having some random person in your ear nag at you to do tasks you're already doing. This would be bearable if it weren't for perhaps the game's biggest downside, the story itself is incredibly unintersting, you're just fed plot pieces from random audio logs where the voice actors just flatly deliver their lines without there being any real setup or explanation of what's going on (or any real progession of a plot of any kind for that matter). I could only get about halfway through the game before calling it quits after walking (and sometimes floating) through the same hallways for about 2 hours. Save your money and skip this game.

Отличная атмосферная игрушка про космос. Всё здесь размеренно, плавно и без сложных, взрывающих мозг головоломок, но подумать иногда всё же придётся. История про человека прибывшего на Луну и пытающегося разобраться что случилось с местной колонией а также почему перестала поступать энергия с Луны на Землю. В ходе игры придётся разгадывать несложные задачи, собирать по частям истории людей, к которым потом очень даже проникаешься хоть вживую за всю игру так никого и не увидишь. Ну и конечно нужно восстановить подачу энергии чтоб Земля окончательно не загнулась. Игрушка не долгая , затягивает с первых минут - без жести, скримеров, крови и хардкора, но со своей гнетущей атмосферой одиночества на пустой планете.

(Note: Hours played is incorrect, it hasn't logged my Steam Deck hours for some reason). Even for the time this game was released (around 7 years ago at the time of writing) Deliver Us The Moon feels very dated, not just visually but mechanically as well. The "puzzles" mostly consist of pushing boxes around and standing on pressure plates which does kind of feel like Game Design 101. One particular low point was a forced "stealth" section where you need to outmanoeuvre 3 robots, luckily you could mostly just sprint through it. While the voice acting is decent, the narrative itself never drew me in and the characters were pretty bland. It tries to go for an isolated sci-fi vibe but it never gets anywhere near the tension of games like Tacoma or Event[0]. A lot of the time it just felt like it couldn't decide what it wanted to be. The character perspective changes several times (almost at random) throughout the game like they couldn't make up their mind which they preferred and then there's sections where you're collecting O2 pickups like you're Mario popping mushrooms which felt a little incongruent with the rest of the game's vibe. Overall it's not a BAD game it just feels as though it's made by an inexperienced dev team and needed a lot more in the way of preproduction to figure out what it was really meant to be.