There are puzzles, too, which come primarily in two forms.įirst there are decryption puzzles, awkward ciphers that require you to position ACE in certain place while moving up and down or side to side to slot three glowing blocks into the correct slots. They’re mechanically no different to the times when you control Kathy’s little service droid, ACE, who can navigate through ventilation systems or open certain locked doors. When you’re not climbing, you’ll sometimes spend need to get through zero gravity environments that feel just like you’re flying. The animation is incredibly stiff and robotic when Kathy climbs though, something I repeatedly found distracting.

This is Mars’ primary new mechanic, and while it’s a little over-used in the middle section of the game, it at least adds a little tension. She’s equipped with a cutting tool on her wrist, and a pair of climbing axes that she pulls out whenever she needs to climb. There’s no combat in Deliver Us Mars, though Kathy can be killed by falling too far or other environmental hazards. There are spikes of sudden activity, such as the sequence of events that lead to Kathy being stranded on the red planet. As with Deliver us the Moon, Deliver Us Mars moves at a glacially slow pace. What follows is roughly five or six hours of slow-paced exploration, puzzle-solving, and exposition, as you seek not only signs of life on Mars, but also anything that might reveal your father’s fate. However, disaster strikes the mission, leaving Kathy and her team scattered across the surface of Mars. A young Astronaut and expert in the field of STREAME technology, Kathy is selected to go on a search and rescue expedition to find one of the Arks after its distress call is picked up. You play as Kathy Johansen, daughter of one of the defecting scientists. Three “Arks” designed to preserve humanity were effectively stolen by the scientists who created them, leaving humanity and planet Earth in a hell of a mess. Set ten years later, Mars introduces to a world barely surviving, where the efforts of Rolf Robertsson merely delayed the inevitable. Deliver us Mars is the follow up to 2018’s Deliver Us the Moon, a narrative adventure about an expedition to the Lunar surface in an effort to save humanity from certain doom.

Launch sequence deliver us the moon