Deliver Us the Moon has a pretty in depth starting video and prologue about it's story. In the future Earth's resources have been striped bare leaving an almost barren energy less rock. Fortunately due to the Moon's Helium-3 resources that can be beamed back to Earth a solution is found but one day in the year 2048 the colony on the moon goes dark and the power is stopped. The World Space Agency don't have the resources to launch a mission to find out why but somehow five years later just 3 people in an abandoned WSA facility managed to design, build and power a rocket to the moon the rest of the world working together couldn't and that's where you, Earth's last astronaut come in.

So the story has more holes than a block of swiss cheese but to be honest the fun comes from exploring the space station and colony upon arrival. I absolutely adore games like this in this setting (Alien Isolation, Prey, Dead Space, Tacoma). there is a real thrill in exploring abandoned sci-fi facilities and unraveling what the cause behind them was. Deliver Us the Moon is not the best at this but it still reveals a fairly riveting yarn through holograms, computers and notes found as you explore.

The main game plays as a puzzle adventure exploring and occasionally powering up doors and towers to go further in. It feels pretty standard. The visuals are a little rough which is expected as a low budget title but it still has some nice looking scenes and designs. It plays very smoothly though on the PS5 however the animation for moving your character around in 3rd person was kind of hilarious and not in a good way.

It's a pretty solid and short sci-fi adventure definitely worth a play even if there are much better games in the same vein. I look forward to seeing if the developer KeoKen Interactive can build on these foundations in the sequel Deliver Us Mars.

+ Fun to explore and find out what happened.
+ Good attempt at lore and backstory...

-....even if it is full of plot holes.