To The Moon

This is not really a game, the term visual novel would be a better fit for it. If you know what a visual novel is and enjoy them, then 'To the Moon' is a must for you, and as long as you have a soul, wil hit you right in the feels with gut wrenching intensity. The story is beautiful, the music while not brilliant is more than adequate and works beautifully with the scenes. The graphics, which could be considered its weakest point, with their old-time, 16bit feel, as if made with rpg maker actually manage to enhance the fairy tale feel of the whole experience. Just don't expect gameplay because there isn't any. This is not a game, this a story, and a beautifully told one.

I loved the overall concept of the game: telling an interactive story. However, solving the small puzzles between each memory really took me out of the story, and I did not like that. Had the puzzles not been in there, or if they were different in some way. I would have definitely given this a 5/5.

To the feels of justice!!! -Garen I used to be an adventurer like you, but then i took some feels to the knee -Whiterun Guard Do you know how i got this feels? -The Joker i can keep it going about how much feels this game has, but thats all i could think

As others say, there's no much of a game in it, but even so it granted me the most touching emotional experience I ever had with a videogame. The soundtrack is brilliant and the visuals match perfectly. Certainly, I won't ever forget this game. If that is what they wanted to cause, then they deserve a big applause!

Calling it a game is not right, it's a narrative that uses game mechanics of the 16 bit era in order to tell it to every person in it's own natural pace. It's hard for me to write about this, because the topics struck me right to the core since several of my own personal tragedies are reflected in there, but I'll try nonetheless to do it withouth spoilers, because spoilers can surely ruin this piece a bit, because it's all about the story. No big studio would ever create such a piece of software. It's made by heart from an obviously emotional person with a good education and an overall good background knowledge. He knew what he was doing and he knew exactly which kind of messages he wanted to send to emotio and ratio as well at the same time. The characters are diverse and interesting, there are no stereotypes in the game in spite of the topics which would make every other studio use stereotypes. The narration in combination with the soundtrack is very effective by design and in order to not get too depressed or to have too much tension, there are a few minigames spread throughout the timeline, but nothing that can be in any way frustrating, because this would kill the flow of the story instead of loosening the tension here and there. It works very well. The reason why I'm giving it a 4 star rating instead of 5 on GoG is simply because GoG lacks the Linux version that I got from Humble Bundle and finished yesterday. I bought it on GoG at some point but the Linux port was never given to us here since the introduction of Linux support on GoG, which is quite sad, hopefully it will come later.