Deliver Us The Moon

A very good game from an indie studio. Made me really feel like I was on the moon. A unique game for sure.

Great story, gameplay and atmosphere.

So beautifully created

Good 10/10 would play again

Strong reccomend

One of the best games i have ever played! I loved everything about it, Story line was really really good, I was hooked from start to finish, Fantastic game!!!

One of the greatest game, I've ever played.

This is honestly one of the most boring space games I have ever played.

Great atmospere and gameplay.

This game was frustratingly clunky.
The cutting beam that only ~maybe~ activates when it should.
The floaty moon movement physics works well for atmosphere but it's lethal in the reactor level that requires precise movements.
The final dish alignment doesn't give you enough time, you have to be flawless and only have a short time window. I did finally beat it, but yikes it was bad.

With that said, my second playthrough went a lot smoother, and I go on to enjoy Deliver Us Mars a lot more!

Very cool game, it gives you the realistic feeling of how going into space works without a complete science fiction feel about it.. Nice puzzles and good story.

Deliver Us the Moon is a space thriller-mystery in the form of a walking simulator with escape-room style puzzles.

The puzzles are mostly quite simple involving finding ways to open doors to progress through the various space stations and moon bases. There are a few challenges against the clock which are more varied which is welcome.

The setting is graphically stunning. This really shines in those scenes where you have to fly through space or drive around on the surface. The location feels extremely real. If you wanted a moon flight sim with a sprinking of 'game' this would get you quite close to the mark.

Beyond the beautiful views, this game really is about the story, much like in a walking sim. The story is compelling and well thought through. It unfolds in a satisfying way, primarily through cut scenes unlocked by finding objects. This is not neccessarily a problem, but it does seem to be *strongly* derivative of the movie Interstellar: the set-up and vibes are so similar it could be said to be another 'take' on the same premise. There are also several emotional exchanges where the script is so full of cliches that you may find yourself laughing out loud (also like the movie 'Interstellar'!). But this is not constant, and the voice-acting is great, so not a big deal. In general the story is a big plus.

(Side note: if you like a story-centred space mystery I would first play 'Tacoma', less pretty to look at but its more original with a plot and characters that have a lot more depth.)

The controls, specifically interacting with objects, can be fenickity. At times I'd be right next to an interactable object and have to walk up to, back, and side-to-side for the 'interact' option to appear. This is a little fustrating for a game which is so shaped by the story told through found objects.

Played this game on a SteamDeck docked into a TV. Performed well in the 'indoor' scenes, very sluggish outside, nut not enough to spoil the experience.

We're whalers on the Moon.
We carry a harpoon.
But there ain't no whales so we tell tall tales and sing a whaling tune.

Played the game a handful of times over the past few years and somehow forgot to leave a review. I personally really enjoy the story. The puzzles really aren't that difficult. I'm not sure what the negative reviews are about regarding it. Some negative reviews point out that the game puts you under pressure. If this game is putting you under pressure... Oh boy wait until you see the real world.

Here's the idea, if you like a good story and don't mind using your brain to complete puzzles this is a good game for you. If you don't like puzzles or you're scared of timed events, this is not a game for you.

I dont get the negative reviews. Some saying the stress and pressure is unnecessary which is the whole point of a basically lost in space style of action/adventure puzzle game. The Story is good, the scenery is good, i was able to run this game on max settings, gives you plenty of time to explore everything, and the puzzles progressively get harder as you go which is good, yet they are not impossible, take your time. There is some quick time events but they are not that hard to do, just pay attention.

This game was almost great, but I couldn't get into the story, the platforming controls felt sluggish, and the game trapped my asa unit in a room it couldn't get out of, leaving me stuck, until it randomly respawned outside the room later. This wouldn't be a big deal, but every character seemed to make *incredibly* stupid decisions. There's a lot of universal praise online, and the price is cheap, and you may love this game. In that light, don't let this review put you off, but personally, 30 percent of me liked it, 50 percent was meh, and 20 percent, I disliked strongly. (eg a few times I was stuck because I didn't hit spacebar on the computer terminal the second time). My main gripe about the game, is that you can't save (it autosaves) but when I restart from a quit of a death, it's not obvious if the tasks you just completed were saved or if you need to do it again. Is tower one still aligned? IDK. There's a time? Why is there a time? IDK. OK I have the item, do I need to do something with it? - in short, the path you need to take in the game is a one way street, but the navigation within the game isn't there. I could excuse it all if I liked any of the characters, but they mostly made me angry with their choices.)

The story is interesting. Fun game play and puzzles to figure out. Great game.

I had to stop playing, I dont know if the story is good because it is repeated over and over again and barely progresses like I might struggle to understand basic concepts like "this base should be on and it is off actually" or "children should be alive ideally".
The controls and gameplay also thinks I'm a total jackass and blatantly walks you through the excruciatingly obvious controls.

Maybe once you get further into the moon base it gets less dull but I'll never know.

I have played Deliver Us The Moon four times now and I can say, the more I play, the better it gets. The game offers a good story, a beautiful soundtrack and stunning graphics. I loved exploring and solving the puzzles. Some parts are a bit stressful but I kinda like it because it makes the game more realistic.

I highly recommend Deliver Us The Moon. Especially if you like space themed games.

Gameplay is fairly minimal. Story is rather mundane.

Was expecting more.

Putting game's naive storyline aside (whole plot is childishly stupid) – it's horrendous optimization is THE coffin nail – with constant stutters on i13700k/RTX4090 it’s clear that game developers don’t care about players experience.

Wish you could give a mixed review. Controls are vague and wallowy. Can't be rebound without ini editing. Checkpoints instead of manual saves which would be ok if there weren't bugs. My game broke when I decided to explore a little and it let me go into a building 'too early'. The doors behind me hard closed and that was it, no way to get back to the mission. Like, did none of the designers know that some players are explorers? Lack of originality in sociopolitical themes - all the wonderful and talented and noble characters are female, all the key schemers and sellouts are male. This was getting overused and insulting even before the game released. On the plus side - the ambience is great, the premise is interesting, and the challenge is relaxed, or at least was up to the point I broke it. Heard about some difficulty spike near the end but it's too overtly sexist for me to bother redoing the last level to see it to completion.

В эту игрушечку я поиграла уже давно, так что могу не вспомнить каких-то шероховатостей, осталось только общее впечатление. Общее впечатление хорошее - это простое, местами зрелищное, с достаточно банальными сюжетом и философией, космическое приключение. Она не слишком страшная, не слишком грустная, но играть в неё было приятно.

Сюжет вроде такой: как-то раз на Земле исчерпались все ресурсы, но человечество придумало добывать энергию на Луне. Но и там вдруг что-то пошло не так, была утрачена связь, прекратилась подача энергии. Наш персонаж, безымянный космонавтик (его личность мы раскроем ближе к концу) отправляется в одинокую миссию на Луну, чтобы раскрыть, что случилось, и возобновить подачу энергии.

И вот эта часть, мне кажется, сделана классно - ну да, головоломки примитивные, но необязательно же в каждой игре лезть вон из кожи и превозмогать до обмороков. Тут подвинуть, там соединить, здесь собрать. Самые классные - это, пожалуй, запуск ракеты с Земли (вот прямо большой ракеты, мы её прямо запускаем), а ещё вождение ровера по лунной поверхности. Саму историю мы узнаём путём чтения записок и просмотра голограмм, в этом она отдалённо напоминает Tacoma - но последняя пыталась куда больше сфокусироваться на довольно унылых отношениях между персонажами, а тут мне понравилось кататься на монорельсе и щёлкать тумблерами в ракете.

Корчить из себя астрофизика и домогаться до какой-то там якобы неправильно изображенной лунной гравитации не буду.

Плюсы:
- raketa goes brrrr;
- симатично смотрится;
- удачные головоломки, понятно, что нужно сделать, показались разнообразными;
- дают прикольного роботика в партнёры;
- оптимальная продолжительность.

Минусы:
- люблю более заковыристые сюжеты.

Man, this game reminded me of SOMA so much and I love that. It's not as spooky as SOMA but comes very close in creating that atmosphere and loneliness. Loved the story and the puzzles are decent. And you get to drive around on the surface of the moon which i don't think i've ever done in any game i've played. Would highly recommend just for the story and the visuals.

I'd give this game 7/10. Well made, looks AMAZING, compelling story-line, reasonable voice acting, well paced, and some good puzzles. It also played well at epic settings (except RT) on a relatively meagre GTX1050 GPU.

What let it down for me were the timed sequences. A few of them were fine and you had time to work out what to do, or to reconnoitre first using the ASE, but other times you're thrown into a situation with just a couple of minutes to survive and no idea what to do. I died A LOT! If these timed sequences were replaced with more puzzles, I'd give it a higher score.

Additionally, I found it quite frustrating that there's no manual save option.

All that said, I'm looking forward to playing the follow-up game.

There is a bug in Copernicus Outpost level at the beginning where AWE does not spawn, and you can't progress without it. Reloading does nothing.

Amazing game. It's not very long, with little over 5 hours of gameplay. The puzzle element starts of very simple, but do progress in difficulty during the play-through. It never gets really mind-breakingly hard, but that's a good thing. Character movement could be better but once used to it it's fine.
The story is gripping, especially the further you go and uncover more and more. In the end it made me feel strong emotions when I ended the game, which hasn't happened to me in a long time. A definite recommend. Worth every penny.

Just plain boring. Movement is like drifting through molasses whether you're in zero G or just walking. ("Sprinting" is nothing of the kind.) Puzzles are repetitive, mostly looking around and finding things to take from point A to point B, and made incredibly frustrating by how long it takes to freakin' get anywhere. I was pushing through all this because the story was interesting, but after only 3 hours, the main crux of the story had been revealed. After that, there was nothing motivating me to slog through the rest of the game. I gave up and Googled the plot to see what I was missing. Answer: nothing I hadn't already guessed. Don't bother with this game.

This is a short, fun and intriguing game that has some puzzles and a pretty good story. The only thing I didn't like as much was the movement of the character, which during certain platforming segments became maddening. For the rest, it is a nice game to sink a few hours in.

Fun Game for the short time. Really good story, can't wait to play Deliver us Mars

Short, but sweet. Solid B+ on the story-line and cinematics. Voice acting was on point with the situation and not overdone.

I wouldn't say it's worth full price ($24.99 at time of review), but definitely get if it's on a good sale.

Puzzles were creative without being frustrating.

I am writing this review post-game completion, so note the short length.

Overall DUTM is a simple narrative-driven walking simulator with puzzles, but is a nice little game regardless. It's similar to games like Tacoma or Firewatch and so anyone who likes games like those will like this one. The story is interesting and is easily immersive and has some impactful moments, especially towards the end. There is a strong sense of narrative progression that culminates in a satisfying climax and really makes the entire experience memorable. The puzzles are fine, nothing terribly interesting. I appreciated how detailed the levels were and the zero-g walking and driving was fun, and it was fun just being on the surface of the moon.

The only real downsides were that despite the game being graphically impressive and running mostly well, for whatever reason the game really started struggling towards the end of the game which meant I had to turn down the graphics quality which was weird. I also felt that some of the controls and the character movement was clunky, and there was no option to change keybindings.

But overall I liked the game a lot and would recommend it if you like similar games.

The storytelling and premise of the story itself is so offensively stupid and infantile that it's outright unbearable.

It feels like this wasn't written by a human being.

Great game, can tell a lot of love went into it. Really fun achievements too!

Thought it was a pretty average space game. It doesn't try to do anything special just gives you an average story and average gameplay, maybe the controls could've been a bit better but that's just nit picky.

I wouldn't pick it up at full price but it's definitely worth buying and playing when it's discounted.

5/10

1. First ten min.: Walking feels like you are submerged in molasses (maybe due to a stray piece of code from an ocean floor level?). Than kind of garbage should not occur in a finished game! 2. Then: Feeling like an idiot turning the tabletop radio on and off twenty or so times, trying to "answer the radio" - only to find out that you have to put your helmet. Remarkably stupid game design. 3. Thereafter: Simple environment manipulation level, reasonably well made - almost fun. 4. In the rocket: Having to hit a bunch of buttons in a very specific order, dying five times or so. FANTASTICALLY stupid and anti-fun. 5. Exploring the station; sort of fun and novel. 6. Flying through the wrecked station, having to grab ten or so O2 canisters with perfect timing. No fun at all. Finally rage quit. Dear game designers: A game should be novel, or engaging, or fun, or technologically realistic (for us engineers), or tactically realistic (for us veterans). "Chores" an "unrealistic" are not words that go well together - even if the game is (almost) pretty to look at.

Still has game breaking bugs that can create a huge loss in progress,..

A nice little breath of fresh air amidst the clusterfuck of big releases.

I bought it when it was on sale and I don't regret.
Puzzle make you stop and think for 2 minutes but it never gets to the point you wanna see the playthrough.
It doesn't have the time to get repetitive.
Nice atmosphere, but in rare occasions the framerate dropped. Nothing that could spoil the experience though.

For 20$ or less, its a bargain.

A pretty short but enjoyable story, simple puzzles and nice visuals.

However, if you're going for the achievements... MAKE SURE YOU STAY AND WATCH ALL OF THE HOLOGRAMS TO THE END! I had to do some backtracking via Level Select as I realised I didn't stay in the area after triggering them, so they didn't count.

Intriguing space mystery story. It's fairly short, but I feel like it was engaging enough to want to play the sequel.

A compelling story that imo echoes those of the movies; "Interstellar" and "Ad Astra." Which is a complement! And considering its more concise (and not "short") game length it's a terrific way to spend an evening or two playing as a movie protagonist.

An interesting adventure game where you are tasked to investigate the missing moon colony whose main purpose is to generate power and beam it back to earth using a hi tech microwave beam facility, you are the last hope of an energy starved and dying earth to find out what happened and restart the energy transfer.

I don't usually like games where you have to do a lot of third person jumping and enemy avoidance sequences, but this story was compelling and interesting from start to end. The tense moments where you can fail or screw up are well choreographed and spaced to ensure you get a challenge as you venture from earth to the moon base in your adventure. Generally you are met with numerous physical challenges and puzzles that hinder you along the way. Even for someone who don't usually like these genre it was ok as the mystery pulls you through and you will also get a little cute companion later in the middle of it, to accompany your lonesome journey. It may feel alone and eerie at times due to the lack of other human interactions as this will be mostly environmental manipulation and interaction all in all. Not too long and not too short, funny though the second playthorugh makes the game seems so much easier to complete compared to the first round when you expect danger at every corner as if aliens would come a hunting you or a biohazzard deus ex machina monster threatens you, but in the end its not an horror story but still the tension is palatable the first time, including all the tense times you face oxygen limiting challenges. The second time to get the achievements somehow made is quite silly to feel so stressed the first round over once you know all the tips and tricks.

Lovely graphics, good straightforward story line, compelling pacing, logical puzzles and great music makes it worth a play. A bit linear for some but i don't mind. Can't believe this was among the better kickstarter games, truly some good ones did come out of the platform.

I play on a Ryzen 5 2600, 8gb ram, MSI 1050ti. I had no trouble running this game at the highest graphics setting. I just started playing games for achievements, and this is my first one fully completed. It took me 3 or 4 days (kids, lol), and I found it to be extremely pleasant! I normally play cozy games, and this one only had about 4 or 5 stressful points for me. I had received Deliver Us Mars for free on Epic and picked this up on sale. This is way better! I love the little puzzles and the fact that there's no combat, and only one section of the game that involves "enemies"! Took 3 playthroughs to get all achievements, make sure you actually press "read" on all the moonman comics, might save you some time!

I enjoyed Deliver Us The Moon. It told a decent (if slightly basic and one-dimensional) scifi story and did not overstay its welcome. The gameplay was a mix of walking simulator, some minor puzzles, a bit of jumping and some timed sections. As far as I understand, several patches ironed out the rough edges in difficulty, so I will just say that at this point in time, everything was doable. I did manage to get killed twice, but mostly because of my own fault.

Graphics are very good, but also very demanding. I wish there were a bit more options to configure post-processing effects, specifically motion blur should be allowed to be turned off. Sounds, music and voice acting are all fitting and fine, but unremarkable.

Atmosphere is exceptional. If you enjoy scifi stories that are more based in sci than fi (specifically meaning that they are based around human beings in space and not aliens or advanced civilizations), then Deliver Us The Moon is a great 4-hour experience.

An emotionally powerful and visually stunning sci-fi story-based game that sings the same cinematic immersion as "Uncharted", even with a few technical hiccups (no ability to climb ledges, really?)

I am not a very big fan of adventure/puzzle games but I really enjoyed this one. It was a nice little story and the puzzles were reasonable. The game is not very difficult but was fun for the story and setting. I thought this was a decent adventure game and would recommend it. I look forward to playing the sequels.

The only negative thing I have to say about it is it did start to stutter in a few sections toward the end of the game. Most of the game ran smooth though at max settings.

That's one of those games that should have an in between review option. The graphics are good, animations are well done most of the time and the devs knew when to switch between FPP and TPP. Sometimes movement is clunky, but nothing to complain. I played the game on Steamdeck and had very nice performance most of the time - I experienced few frame rate drops, but it was never a game breaking experience.
I wouldn't elaborate on the story, I with there would be more, maybe additional level with the 3rd Ark as it was mentioned. It wasn't bad, the pacing was okay, still nothing to write home about.

But the puzzles... This game is focused on the puzzles, but there are unfortunately just few types of those, and are never done with any twists. If you can solve the initial ones, you just follow the pattern. Most of those are "there are gates A and B, you need to get past those with an item C that's getting stuck behind A so you need to recover it before you open B".
And for a chill exploration game about a story and puzzles, there are way too much timed sequences. And they do not change anything - if you fail, you just need to do them again, to squeeze few actions within a narrow time frame.
And some puzzles (especially [spoiler] those with killer drones, that shock you with electricity [/spoiler) are simply done much faster if you run through them. Suddenly, when game requires you to juggle items and open doors in a sequence, there are rooms that look like puzzles but if you want to get over with those quickly - you just run and are done with those.

All in all I had a good time, hence the positive review. For a first game of a small studio - an awesome achievement, some moments were breathtaking and plain amazing. Still don't put your expectations up too high if you want a puzzle-solving mind-bender.

A visually stunning walking simulator with a solid story. A few of the puzzles felt a little janky and the voiceover work is up and down, but most elements of Deliver Us The Moon feel like AAA production quality.

I'm surprised this earned a Steam Deck 'Verified' rating, as I did deal with a number of serious performance issues on my OLED where framerates dropped into the single-digits. I didn't tweak any settings, so perhaps I could have solved these issues myself.

If you're into sci-fi stories and breathtaking set pieces you'll likely enjoy this title.

Almost unplayable at some points. So much negative feedback for the ending sequence. I will recomand only to people that have enough free time to sit trough this bad replays. Tho story is likable, graphics are amazing. No value in replaying unftil it is fixed.

Extremely atmospheric game which would be a lot of fun for new, casual or experienced gamers alike. Well recommended.