There’s a lot to admire, from the realistic lighting and shadows, through to the odd glimpses of space you receive through the station’s few windows. All you know is that you’re to somehow “deliver” the moon to the Worldwide Space Agency, the game’s fictional equivalent of NASA, and that the fate of humanity (as always) lies in your hands. This is where the player-character comes in, with the unnamed rogue astronaut you’re placed in control of being sent on a secret do-or-die mission to the moon, though the demo leaves your exact objective unclear. The short demo I played of Dutch indie developer KeokeN Interactive’s Deliver Us The Moon was refreshing, then, in that it didn’t see me taking on an alien threat whilst simultaneously proving to be an alien threat myself, with its concept instead being rooted in the far more feasible concern that one day we will have doomed ourselves by using up all of Earth’s resources.

If a game transports you to a faraway planet, then rest assured it is almost definitely going to be light years away from Earth, it will absolutely arm you with a gun, and you will certainly be using said firearm to mow down that particular planet’s inhabitants, mercilessly slaughtering an entire civilization for having the gall to not be immediately welcoming of a fully armed human being entering their world. When video games venture into outer space, rarely do they do so with subtlety.

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