Deliver Us The Moon

[h1][b] TLDR: An interesting setting grounded in plausible science. Some great intense moments that are heavily inspired by sci-fi movies. A bit minimal on the gameplay though. [/b] [/h1] [h1]PROS: [/h1] ➕Graphics and RTX look beautiful ➕Interesting narrative grounded in current issues ➕Great moments of action/drama [h1]NEUTRALS: [/h1] 🔹Big RTX performance hit [h1]CONS: [/h1] ➖Cannot rebind keys ➖Typical Unreal Engine “Floatyness” ➖Some frustratingly difficult QTEs ➖Lack of personality with main character [h1] [b] Content (Game world/Narrative) – [8/10] [/b] [/h1] The game world takes place in a few locations - Earth, a space station, and a few various moon bases. In each location, the areas showcase a very real, lived-in, science fiction environment. Furthermore, many of the locations gave me a feeling of famous movie scenes, like Interstellar and Gravity. Overall, a very well designed world. The narrative is good. It takes place in a setting where the Earth is dying. Climate change has caused irreversible damage and the entire planet is turning into a dustball. Around 2030, a new element, Helium-3, was found on the moon. This element is able to provide enough energy for the earth to sustain itself. But in 2054, the moon base has gone silent, leaving Earth powered-down and in the dark. It’s taken 5 years to get enough resources together to finally start a trip to the moon to understand what happened and fix the issue. I enjoy the concept and unraveling the mystery. The ending wasn’t mind-blowing, but good enough to where I didn’t feel disappointed. [h1][b] Gameplay (Mechanics/Difficulty) – [7/10] [/b] [/h1] The mechanics can be deceptive. I would say for about a solid 60% of the game, the gameplay can be summarized as a walking simulator. As you progress, you slowly unlock tools that contribute to solving puzzles. Towards the end of the game, it’s much more puzzle-oriented. There are also a few situations that combine puzzle solving with a constant loss of oxygen (timer). I found these to be exciting and intense. The difficulty is generally very forgiving. I would say the only truly difficult part is a rather frustrating QTE on a speeding tram where you have about 1 second to press a button or you fail. There are multiple fail states in this game, but at most you’d lose a few minutes restarting at a checkpoint. [h1] [b] Graphics (Quality/Technical) – [7/10] [/b] [/h1] Generally, astounding. I was able to run the game fully maxed out for the majority of the game. There are numerous graphical options and the RTX, when it works, is amazing to behold. The game does show some “Inexperience” or “AA” development that I’ve noticed to be a constant issue with the Unreal Engine. This is especially noticeable in the third person view where your character just feels “Floaty” against the environment. Something like the movement just doesn’t match up with the distance you traverse. It’s hard to describe, but it definitely doesn’t feel perfect. On the technical side - near the end of the game, once I got to [spoiler]Tombaugh[/spoiler], there was a clear issue with performance with RTX. I experienced crazy stuttering and dips of ~50 FPS. I tested this by even putting the game on low settings and the dips continued, indicating a clear issue with RTX. When I turned RTX off, it was smooth. i9-13900KF | RTX 4090 | 64GB RAM | 1440p @ 240hz | Windows 11 installed on SSD [h1] [b] Audio – [7/10] [/b] [/h1] Good. It’s atmospheric most of the time with some subtle scores during intense dramatic moments. Nothing stood out to me as exceptional, but it's good. Similar with the voice acting, I could tell that it wasn’t AAA quality, but it's still solid. [h1] [b] Replay Factor (Longevity) – [3/10] [/b] [/h1] Low, there is no reason to replay this other than achievements. Also the way the chapters are broken out can make achievement hunting hard. Of the ~5 hour gameplay, there were only a few chapters, making each one fairly long. [h1] [b] Final Verdict – [7/10] [/b] [/h1] Deliver Us The Moon (DUTM) is a great sci-fi game set in the very near future. It explores a potential outcome of runaway climate change and the scientific advances needed to combat it. For my biggest negative, I’d probably have to go with the lack of personality with the main character. I don’t understand why the developers decided to go with a faceless, “Nameless”, silent protagonist when so much of what this mission should have been about was teamwork and communication from mankind in order to overcome challenges. Instead, you get a barely functioning robot man as your main character. It’s especially interesting this choice given that it’s heavily hinted that you’re actually playing as one of the characters you HEAR speak in the logs, [spoiler]Rolf[/spoiler]. So it's like I know this character is capable of speech, I hear the other characters call him by name, I would have loved some inner monologue like Cooper in Interstellar, or Mark in The Martian. It really would have added some liveliness to an otherwise completely dead environment. For my biggest positives, I would have to say it's a few notable things - narrative, graphics, and mechanics. All of my positives are not something that DUTM does exceptionally well, but each are done to a good/great extent and complement each other to a great extent. The superb graphics and artstyle really makes the narrative pop and become all the more believable as you retrace the steps of those just a few years ago. The mechanics, while simple and few in count, do a good job at showcasing the unique dramatic narrative elements. Overall, I enjoyed Deliver Us The Moon and do recommend it. I’d call it an “Advanced walking simulator”, where the gameplay is minimal for normal interactivity, but expansive beyond just moving forward. Due to the length, picking it up on sale for $10 seems fair. This game interest you? Should also check out The Invincible, one of my highest rated games of all time. Review: https://steamcommunity.com/id/Synikx/recommended/731040?snr=1_5_9__402 [h1] [b] Recommend? [Y/N] [/b] [/h1] [h1]Yes[/h1] You can find my curator page here: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Synik_GR

This is a really great game, I have had a lot of fun with this on my first play-through. I loved the story and game play, what a master piece

“Deliver us high resolution textures (and an FOV slider too)” This is one of those games I would probably give a neutral review if such an option was available. The very first thing I noticed after hitting the “new game” button was the lack of an FOV slider option, which combined with my ultrawide resolution resulted in an unpleasant experience. I know that by editing some config file you can actually change FOV, which makes it even more disappointing that devs didn’t include it as an in-game option. The second thing I noticed are the abysmally low resolution textures. Now listen, I know it’s an indie game but here I’m not asking for the moon (pun intended). The game begins in a room full of newspaper snippets which further explain the lore, and many of these are legitimately hard to read without pressing a key and getting the text written on screen. I don’t even think this was a design choice, since not all textures are created equal. While some are relatively good quality (especially the main character ones), the vast majority are low res and look all smeared and blurry, and some textures even resemble pixel art (one above all, the moon surface seen from the top of the space elevator). I found this situation even more aggravating since the game’s marketing shills the ray tracing option. Yeah, ray traced shadows and reflections are cool, but they’re not enough to cover up for the extremely poor and heterogeneous texture choice, especially when activating the RT option literally destroys my framerate, bringing it from a solid 165 fps to a crumbling 40ish. Of course the nvidia shilling and knee bending wouldn’t be complete without the absence of any upscaler besides DLSS, so in the end I decided for the sake of my sanity to turn off RT altogether. Funnily enough, even at 165 fps the mouse movement felt unresponsive and the input latency felt hardly better than playing at 40. Speaking about the plot, I found it ok, even though for a hard sci-fi story driven game I felt it could have been developed more in depth. It reminded me a bit of the “Remembrance of Earth's Past” trilogy by Cixin Liu, at least in some aspects which I won’t spoil. Gameplay-wise I found it, once again, ok. Nothing to write home about, but it was fine, aside from finding myself occasionally stuck in place into a sliding animation during a platforming sequence with a time limit. Puzzles were quite clever and in general I found the loop enjoyable without it being too repetitive or bloated (the game is about 6 hours long). The real key strength of the game is, in my opinion, the atmosphere. When not distracted by the questionable presentation I talked about before, this title is really immersive. Sounds are another strong suit of the game, and significantly contribute to the immersiveness. I really enjoyed the zero gravity sequences, with the lack of oxygen giving me a strong sense of urgency, and letting me literally take a sigh of relief once I finally reached the next airlock. Everything is accompanied by a very enjoyable soundtrack which fits perfectly with the general theme and gave me 2001 Space Odyssey vibes. Overall then I feel like this Deliver Us The Moon is kind of a missed opportunity. With the amount of Nvidia shilling present it might as well have been an Nvidia sponsored title. I can’t recommend it at full price, it’s ok when heavily discounted.

Deliver Us The Moon is an adventure set in a not-so-distant future, where Earth has no more resources and the only energy comes from an installation set up on the Moon. Your goal is to go to the Moon and explore the installation, to find out why there is no more energy coming to Earth and, if possible, restore the flow. Technically speaking, the game is more than OK. The graphics are great, everything looks real, the level design is good and makes you feel you really are on the Moon (inside the installation and outside), the sound effects are OK and the soundtrack is quite good. There are some occasional bugs that had me reload a few times, but other than that, all good. The gameplay is nothing special. You get to read a lot of things, discover audio and video (I guess you could call them that) records and try to see why the station is empty and nothing works, and solve environmental puzzles to move forward. The story is OK, pretty straightforward, with a few twists along the way. And, the more you read and uncover, you can't pretend not to see the message that really hits close to home, especially since worldwide pollution and energy crisis are subjects that make their way into media more and more each day. In terms of gameplay/length, Deliver Us The Moon is pretty short, around 5 hours, if you try to find every recording and piece of paper you can scan. This being said, this seems to be one of those rare cases where a game is more than the sum of its parts. Combine all those above and you get a relaxing yet tense and claustrophobic game that feels real. And there's something strangely calming in the silence and loneliness of the Moon, something that makes you see things beyond what's on your screen. So, if you're into sci-fi and want a little time with your thoughts, without staring at the ceiling, give this a try.

Kind of Boring. Drone stops spawning after riding the monorail which is locks you from proceeding in the game. Edit: Replayed the whole level and the drone worked this time. Finished the game but still not great. Only buy if its really cheap.

Really good game that isn't given enough love. Fun puzzles and plenty of collectibles.

the game has a progression breaking bug in the reactor section. ASE can't interact, even after 30+ restartrs. completley unplayable

Just finished Deliver Us The Moon and wow… what a journey. The silence, the loneliness, the hope. It really hit me. The story pulled me in, and I honestly didn’t expect to feel this connected. It’s one of those games that sticks with you. A stunning and atmospheric sci-fi experience that blends mystery, emotion, and environmental storytelling perfectly. The isolation in space feels real, and the narrative kept me hooked from start to finish. Beautiful visuals, haunting soundtrack, and a message that hits close to home. Highly recommended for any sci-fi or narrative game fan.

Interesting story and engaging game-play. Language was good.

Honestly, I've never felt so ashamed to buy a game this good on sale. The best way to give back to this company is to write this review. I bought this during a seasonal promotion and let me tell you, this is worth full asking price. Visuals are intense and beautiful; game-play is straight-forward and easy to learn quickly; immersive and edge-of-your-seat entertaining! Nothing but good things to say about this game.

[h1]A Masterpiece on a Modest Budget – 10/10[/h1] Deliver Us The Moon is an absolutely brilliant game. It's astonishing how much emotion and storytelling the developers were able to convey with such a limited budget. From the haunting departure from Earth to the unfolding mystery of the moon base crew, every moment is impactful. I found myself deeply connected to the main character and genuinely moved, tears welled up from start to finish. The atmosphere, pacing, and emotional weight are masterfully crafted. It’s truly fascinating how such a small-scale project can deliver such a powerful experience. This is a must-play. Outstanding work all around!

This was a cute, fun short little game. Completed it in less than 5 hours. I had fun playing it, got annoyed while playing it, and died while playing it. The story line is decent. Controls are a bit wonky, but not bad. I got this on sale for like, $4 and for that price, well worth it, full price, not so much.

Great game. Nice. Silent. Sci-fi story. With puzzle elements. If you have some time, it will take around four hours to finish. I didn't encounter any bugs, but it's not worth $25 overall. Story 8/10 Sound 10/10 Puzzels 8/10 Animation 7/10

COOL SPACE STUFF. If you don't like space or slower paced story games maybe not for you. but i have enjoyed the games so far and would recommend.

Deliver Us the Moon is one of my Favorite Sci-fi game i've play'd with his sequel deliver Us Mars if you like Story driven walking sim this game is for you i recommand

I really tried... Eventually I came to conclusion that story rich games with a mute main character aren't my type.

in case it wasnt clear you gotta deliver them the moon so do with that as you will

Amazing story and love the puzzles! Beautifully crafted.

very fun and the concept is unique ! :)

Houston, we got an absolutely wonderful game here!

Really calm and relaxing.

it's 2025. this game is still full of bugs.

Good game! Poor DX12 Performance though. 6h playtime

Great! Enjoyable.

Great game. Good storyline