To The Moon

K. Fields
2024-05-14T13:21:17-04:00
Video Games

I recently finished playing To the Moon, a very different kind of adventure game. In some ways, it didn't feel much like a game at all. Instead, I felt like I was participating in an interactive story. The plot features two employees of Sigmund Corp., Dr. Eva Rosalene and Dr. Neil Watts. Their assignment is to fulfill the final wish of a dying man, Johnny Wyles, which is to go to the moon. They plan to achieve this by reading and altering his memories using Sigmund Corp.'s technology. Visually, the game looks like a pixelated retro adventure game. Its strengths, however, are in the plot, dialogue, and music. You can't help but be drawn into its very moving story. It was an emotional roller coaster and I really cared about the characters by the end of the game. I also played the two SigCorp "minisodes," which came out after the game's original release. They were set at Christmastime at Sigmund Corp. You play as both Eva and Neil during and immediately after their office Christmas party. This two-part story provided additional depth to the main characters and ended in a way that opened up some interesting future possibilities.

The developer, Freebird Games, has made more games in the series. I really loved To the Moon, so I would like to play those games as well.