Deliver Us The Moon would fairly such as you to overlook its preliminary launch fully. While it was a promising – if incomplete – little area journey again when it first launched in 2018, builders KeokeN Interactive weren’t comfortable. Pulling the game from sale for 3 months, KeokeN been busy ending up the game for a recent begin, making use of a brand new coat of paint and plugging in a wholly new ending. Today, Deliver Us The Moon fired again into orbit, hoping to persuade you to offer it one other shot.
They’ve additionally dropped that naff Fortuna bit from the identify. Needless subtitles, aye? Get rid of ’em.
Deliver Us The Moon has you jetting off to everybody’s favorite haunted rock within the sky to analyze the violent disappearance of a lunar colony. It’s the long run, see, and we’d changed all our energy crops with nondescript moon power. Through Tacoma-style holograms and good ol’ usual environmental sleuthing, it’s as much as you to work out why everybody on the moon exploded.
John (RPS in peace) took a look at Deliver Us The Moon final time it tried this entire launch factor. While a few of the audiovisual polish (or lack thereof) betrayed the workforce’s low finances, it was a deftly-told narrative journey punching properly above its weight. The ending may’ve been just a little underbaked, however John’s evaluation famous that it shouldn’t take away an excessive amount of from an ideal – if unfinished – little journey.
But this July, ten entire months after launch, KeokeN Interactive pulled a shocker. They’d eliminated the game from sale, claiming they weren’t significantly proud of the game’s supply in September. They’d additionally signed on with publishers Wired Productions, who’d given them the help they wanted to deliver the game as much as scratch.
Here’s what KeokeN said at the time:
“Working with Wired has allowed us to go back and not only complete the DLC, but also bring a whole new level of polish to the game. We launched in 2018 as a way to survive and fund completing the game, and now we have Wired, we’re able to do that beyond what we had dreamed of. There isn’t a big conspiracy behind this, we simply wanted to stop the sale of the game to prevent any more confusion.”
This rerelease features a suite of engine and efficiency updates. The Tombaugh Facility, which was meant to the touch up the game’s ending as free DLC, is now simply part of the entire package deal. This continues to be the identical game, thoughts. If you could have an current save in an older version, you need to be capable of decide up proper the place you left off.
If you picked up Deliver Us The Moon again in September 2018, congratulations! You’ll not must pay a penny, cent or regional equal. Otherwise, you may decide up your ticket to the moon on Steam and GOG for £18/€22/$22.
