DELIVER US THE MOON Review for Steam

Deliver Us The Moon by developer KeokeN Interactive and publisher Wired Productions, is a puzzle/exploration game. In it, you play as an astronaut tasked with reactivating a device on the moon that provides the majority of Earth’s power.

As for why Earth can’t get power through conventional means, it’s never fully explained what happened to the Earth, but clearly some sort of man-made catastrophe happened. When Earth is seen/mentioned, there are dust storms that block out the sky and talks of perpetual flooding. My guess is either nuclear winter or some sort of environmental disaster. According to the game’s story, this moon device is one of humanity’s last hopes to escape the situation it has put itself in.

At the game’s beginning, you can only move, sprint, and jump; but you quickly gain 2 items to help you navigate the world. One of these is a laser that can cut through locks and cables (and before you ask, no there is no combat in this game, the laser is just for puzzle-solving). The other item is a robot that you can manually pilot.

While many of Deliver Us The Moon’s puzzles utilize one, if not both of these items, there are still some that do not require them. These puzzles usually amount to trying to avoid touching something dangerous, occasionally through platforming, or avoid being seen by something dangerous.

As for collectibles, you can scan certain items to gain some information on the game’s backstory. Additionally, the robot you have can display holograms of events that have happened, though for some inexplicable reason, it can only display the hologram in the room where the event took place. While plenty of these are close to the beaten path, some of them are hidden away, requiring a thorough sweep of the levels to acquire all the game’s secrets.

What makes finding these collectibles necessary is the fact that very little of the story is explained to you at the beginning. My summary at the top of this review is literally all the game tells you. The searching and finding of all these clues makes the game, at times, feel like a sci-fi detective story.

Overall I enjoyed my time with Deliver Us The Moon. As such, I think a fair rating for it is 8.5/10.

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Deliver Us The Moon is available for PC for $24.99 via Steam. 

For more information, visit https://www.deliverusthemoon.com/