Deliver Us the Moon vs Journey
Deliver Us the Moon
Deliver Us the Moon is a narrative-driven adventure game that’s set in the distant future where humanity relied heavily on energy generated by Helium 3 from its lunar colonies and then transmitted to Earth to power the world and to help combat the death throes of a resource-depleted planet. However, in 2054, everything went dark and any burning hope humanity might have had for its future was rapidly extinguished.Five years have gone by since that fateful day, and after long last, you are now mankind’s one last chance to not only find out what happened to the colonists, many of whom have family members back on Earth, and to also save the entire human race from its death spiral. Will you make it?
Journey
Journey is literally a quintessential "artsy" adventure game. Why so? Well, the game puts you in the shoes of a mysterious robed figure who you will control throughout your adventure across beautiful, quiet and mostly desert landscapes. Each landscape provides players with a puzzle to solve that will allow them to move on to the next scene, though players can simply roam around the place and drink in the gorgeous visuals.There isn't a lot of buttons in the game and that's fine enough since you really don't need much to solve the puzzles, but personally, I'm incredibly intrigued by the Sing function. Although it is used to solve certain puzzles, most of the time you'll probably be using it idly while your character is travelling. Depending on how long you press the button and how fast you do so, you can actually create amazing little tunes that you'd love to have it recorded down and turned into perhaps a ringtone or something.
That said, Journey is a game that's so much more than composing music and solving puzzles. It is a journey (like its namesake) to help the robed figure discover who he/she is and to help you figure out what's happened in the game world, resulting in the sprawling desert that spans most of the game.