Wired Production and KeokeN Interactive are releasing their space odyssey after another attempt. Deliver Us the Moon Once again for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S. We were already quite impressed with the title on the last-gen consoles, and its story couldn't be more relevant to the current times. We'll tell you how this exciting space adventure fares on PS5 in our review.
The story of Deliver Us the Moon is known as far as is and can be found in our original review This can be read in the book. It depicts humanity facing a global catastrophe after completely exploiting Earth's resources and struggling to find a way to ensure the continued flow of vital energy. The solution was found on the moon, which serves as a new source of resources to be mined and transported to Earth.
For this purpose, extensive bases were built on the moon and in its orbit, which will still be operational in the year 2058. Deliver Us the Moon playing will still bring one or two challenges.
The Great Blackout
For unspecified reasons, everything suddenly collapses, plunging the entire project into chaos. Communication is largely paralyzed, the Pearson Space Station is partially damaged, and the Copernicus Moonhub appears deserted, with evidence of a panicked escape.
As space engineer Rolf, you're tasked with traveling to the space station and the Moonhub, restoring the systems, and uncovering the cause of the blackout. You can look forward to some impressive scenarios, ranging from a self-guided rocket launch and driving a rover across the vast lunar surface to exploring the space stations. You can explore almost everything on your own, even exiting your rover and climbing the lunar craters on foot, as long as your oxygen lasts. This is all achieved with realistic physics that allows you to progress with ease. The epic vistas alone make this game worthwhile. Deliver Us the Moon to an extremely worthwhile title.
More puzzles than combat
In terms of gameplay, you're still largely on your own. There are no boss fights or anything like that; instead, there are platforming sections, quick-time events, and plenty of puzzles, though often not very challenging and quite easy to solve. Solutions, such as door codes, sometimes have to be painstakingly found in notes or by following clues. In other instances, you control a monorail across the moon and have to align its tracks in time before a massive crash occurs. You can also learn a lot about the crew's and the space station's history by following the notes, books, and audio logs scattered throughout the station. These sometimes reveal tragic stories of the crew and inhabitants, which can cast a shadow over the overall atmosphere. The fate of Rolf and Sarah, whom you're searching for the whole time, ultimately reveals anything but a happy ending.
And although the story unfolds fairly linearly across the six chapters, the player is given enough freedom to do their own thing, including exploring the lunar surface – for me personally, the most exciting part of the entire game. Anyone wanting to delve even deeper shouldn't miss the hologram recordings that line your path, as these reveal the fate of the crew, the moon base, and the great blackout.
Even more beautiful and overwhelming
What particularly distinguishes the PS5 version, however, are the technical upgrades for Deliver Us the MoonHere you can look forward to native 4K resolution, 60fps, and ray-traced effects and shadows. The DualSense controller with adaptive triggers is also supported. This is particularly noticeable when navigating the rover across the lunar surface or using its welding laser. Radio communication, meanwhile, takes place via the internal speaker, which not only sounds fantastically authentic but also doesn't interfere with regular audio sounds.
Apart from that Deliver Us the Moon While it already looked fantastic on the PS4, the PS5 version with its ray tracing effects is the icing on the cake. Therefore, we recommend choosing the graphics mode over the performance mode, as the otherwise leisurely gameplay is less noticeable in zero gravity and feels pleasantly smooth.
Overall, the experience of Deliver Us the Moon This makes it even more rounded and represents exactly what one imagines life beyond Earth to be like in a few years/decades, when the first colonies are relocated to the moon – even if that is the case with Deliver Us the Moon something went wrong.
The issues we mentioned in our PS4 review seem to have been largely resolved with the PS5 release. A day-one patch is also available, which addresses a few minor performance problems, although these can still occur during hectic moments. Ultimately, however, these issues were hardly noticeable. The longer loading times are also a thing of the past on PS5; the game only stutters briefly during autosave.
Conclusion
The game was available on day one with the new PlayStation Plus.
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