Deliver Us Mars Reviews
Deliver Us Mars is decent enough but lacks the focus and narrative strengths that made the last game such a joy.
Deliver Us Mars improves on its predecessor Deliver Us the Moon in every way with a richer narrative, fun platforming, and challenging puzzles.
Deliver Us Mars explores what it means to struggle against extinction, and the hope of fixing a dying planet. It's a story of fear, and how it manifests into hope within some, and wrath within others. It's a short but certainly sweet narrative adventure into the stars with some casual yet amusing puzzles to help break up the flow of gameplay.
If you're expecting a Martian mission like Total Recall, then recalibrate those expectations. Deliver Us Mars is a rather slow affair with little variation in its puzzles and a languidly delivered narrative. In spite of its issues, however, this is a journey just about worth sticking with.
Deliver Us Mars is an easy game to recommend to those looking for a captivating and well-told story, but at the same time it's weighed down by significant gameplay and technical issues.
There's more creative thrust in KeokeN's sophomore effort - especially in terms of storytelling, but not quite enough to match its stellar ambitions.
Deliver us Mars is a highly ambitious game but simply does not provide a payoff. I would only recommend playing it if you feel sentimental towards its predecessor, and even then I think currently only frustration will be waiting for you. You might say having read this that I should not have given the game the score I did, however I can see what they wanted to do with it, but also I can see what they failed to.
Deliver Us Mars tells an intriguing story, but its gameplay is lackluster and the experience on PS5 is plagued by some technical issues that prevent if from being way more enjoyable than it actually is.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Deliver Us Mars offers a refreshing sci-fi adventure with an entertaining, emotional story at the forefront. It ups the scale from its predecessor and manages to reach for the stars relatively unscathed.
Shooting for the stars only gets you so far.
Far from delivering an out-of-this-world experience, Deliver Us Mars intensifies tedious and unintuitive mechanics from the first entry that even its compelling voice acting cannot save.
While it retains the intriguing plot and robust space atmosphere of the first game, the lack of puzzle variety, poor face modeling, and monotonous gameplay that quickly becomes repetitive make Deliver Us Mars a weak game. Despite the additions, it feels more like a step back than a sequel.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
From many points of view Deliver Us Mars feels a step forward compared to the previous game, but it also feels like it was maybe a tad too ambitious for the development team. They managed to tell an interesting story, but often the immersion and the engagement are broken by weird choices. A gripping story doesn't manage to elevate its status to "must play," but it's clearly a step up from the studio's previous game.
Overall, Deliver Us Mars is surprisingly compelling, with a story of a daughter searching for her wayward father despite his crimes - while others on the crew are searching for him because of said crimes. Most of the gameplay does a great job of keeping things varied, but I wish that there were just a few more puzzle ideas to break up the times when it feels like the game ran out of ideas and popped in another MFT puzzle. Endure those, and Deliver Us Mars is a great game that balances the narrative with allowing the player to have agency. It is further proof that sci-fi stories don't need to involve aliens or explosions, and the humanity within the game's story is admirable.
I am pleased to say that Deliver Us Mars was very enjoyable, taking what feels like just the right amount of time to complete the story. I am hopeful that if there is a third entry in the series, it will overcome the technical limitations seen in the first two.
Even after decades of research, handful of deep space probes and a bunch of scientific rovers, humanity is still fascinated with Mars. Immersive experience of Deliver Us Mars satisfies this very fascination by serving its junky gameplay and ridiculous animations on a way too ambitious plate, while a wonderfully grand, Interstellar like music coats the imperfectly glitchy background. This results in a seemingly spectacular story with enormous set pieces, which lacks the necessary polish, mostly due to obvious budget limitations.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Deliver Us Mars comes crashing back down to Earth because of presentation failings, story missteps, and technical issues, despite a somewhat compelling personal tale involving the majesty of space travel and exploration of the red planet.
A worthy sequel to Deliver Us The Moon and a genuinely atmospheric experience. Some technical problems are not enough to tarnish the very positive overall impression.
All in all, I'd say Deliver Us Mars starts out weaker due to the problem with character modeling in cutscenes, but it picks up a lot as it progresses. As a sequel, it's definitely ambitious. Although it does not do everything perfectly, it is a pleasant production that I will not hesitate to recommend to all fans of narrative games.
Review in Turkish | Read full review
I think it is fair to say that Deliver Us Mars is a frustrating experience and somewhat of a let-down compared to Deliver Us The Moon.