Deliver Us The Moon

If you're looking for a modern, science-fiction adventure romp, you can't pass up the opportunity to play this on a sale. The plot focuses around Earth being a dry, almost entirely desert planet, experiencing frequent dust storms. A previously abandoned project to transfer microwave energy from the Moon to Earth seems to be the only hope, and while the space program was also abandoned in the wake of this, a handful of staff manage to scrape together resources to fund one last launch to the Moon. This is where you come in, as the pilot of the Fortuna-1. While this is a tangible, enjoyable start to the game, it begins to fall flat as more details of the lunar project are unveiled. Anyone with basic understanding of science - notably biology and how much diversity is required for a population to survive - will begin to feel the story unravel in coherency before reaching the half-way point. The journey through this story is enjoyable, but does not engage scientifically and taints the experience. Graphically, the game is impressive, utilising Unreal Engine 4 for some crisp visuals, however these are marred by occasional performance issues, with frame rates dropping to 10-15 when effects become high. This is mostly noticeable in the latter third of the game. The soundtrack is stunning and well worth listening to by itself, and accompanies the player throughout the journey suitably throughout. Unfortunately, it is the plot that leaves the most to be desired, which is obviously important in an adventure game. Voice acting is strong, with believable tones and suitable commentary. The puzzles throughout are very basic, involving rearranging of objects to open specific rooms for other materials, cutting brackets using a laser cutter, alignment of objects to specific rotations and avoidance of hazards on two occasions. Control bindings are not editable, and graphics settings are locked into presets between Low and Epic. Overall, I give this 3/5 stars.

Dreadful plot inconsistency: Why there's no extra reserves on Earth in case of emergency with MPT? - Sir, we've lost contact with Moon, no energy comes from MPT. - Okay, shit happens, we're closing agency. Deal with it. This could be avoided in Subnautica-style (you're the one survivor of rescue mission to the Moon). Some facilities stays locally electrified for years from what? Main reactor is shut down. Every facility electrified from battery with size of bottle of 20 liters of water, seriously? Your robot mate has holograms of at least two very different robots, both of them couldn't share their memories. At least this case is not covered in game, and this fact grows into another plot hole. I guess this examples are enough (just to avoid spoilers). As for every another aspects of the game - everything was expected. Pretty linear levels, easy puzzles, repeatable gameplay, every soundtrack has prefect place and time for itself. Overall impression: - Good visual - Detailed environment - Almost perfect sounds (those sounds in space ruins the moment) - Dreadful plot inconsistency

It's pretty, and the basic premise is interesting. You explore, you work out how to proceed, you look around. It's a bit slow and linear for me, but could be your cup of tea. Two things slightly irritated me though. 1. You can't redefine the keys. The default layout was uncomfortable for me (I prefer to define my own, based around the arrow keys and the ones around those). So playing the game was more awkward for me than it should have been. It's a PC, let me choose my own controls! I wish that was listed in game descriptions on GOG. 2. You can't save when you want, and it's not clear when the last save was. It's a pain. At one point I had to turn off my PC to go do something else. I had no way of saving progress. When I came back the next day I had to repeat a whole section. These kinds of things are little annoyances, but they do add up. We have lives outside of games, so should be able to save when those lives beckon us. Oh, you have no control over viewpoint - it switches between first and third person. I'd prefer to pick my own (first). I find it breaks immersion when I suddenly fly out the back of my head in an out of the body experience, watching myself run around. I got about halfway through the game but it was too slow for me, and with the control and saving issues I decided to call it a day.

Tried the game, it's time challenge all the time. Not funny at all, it's stressfull. Do ,you like to do the same thing over and over until you do it in a short amount of time ? Then buy the game.

This game is not worth your money. Besides skipping its main story of 'deliver us the moon' meaning get the power that's on the moon back to earth because the people on earth are experiencing a permanent blackout because there's no more resources left (though there's plenty of wind and heat all over the world, it seems...) you make your way to the moon and you go through point and click puzzle after point and click puzzle and slog through bits of filler one after the other, while this subplot goes on about some sort of cryptofascist uprising where the moon people leave behind the earth people or something and there's a tertiary plot of some family and you get zero, again, ZERO reasons to care. there's no investment, there's no motive. stuff just happens and when the game tries to force you into caring with tension moments either through ridiculous quick time events that are unannounced and can instakill you in 1.5 seconds (while watching what you think is a cutscene) or by giving you a route of oxygen to follow you're violently torn from engagement and reminded YOU ARE PLAYING A VIDEO GAME. The writing is dull and never picks up pace. Some voice actors do solid work, most just read lines. Music is ... not really a thing. some visuals are nice, most is uninspired. gameplay is mediocre, the floating is unpleasant. you can tell they tried really hard. But they made a lot of poor decisions in how they tell their story and how they show it, and how the game is set up as a game. Do you want silly puzzles or do you want serious immersion? Sometimes you think you get stuck but you actually gotta backtrack somewhere and there's plot holes (like the cut cables, or is that just a red herring?) and solid inconsistencies that require either a strange leap in logic or a walkthrough to get you through... or a lucky guess. In closing: DUTM is a poorly presented attempt at telling us to not waste our resources, and it's a slog to play. I value it at 3 bucks (sadly paid 15)...