To the Moon is a short game about the ups and downs of life and all of the little complications in between.

The actual gameplay is basically just a scavenger hunt combined with a picture puzzle the likes of which you could find dozens of on a site like Newgrounds. It's none too difficult and as far as I could tell the game doesn't even have a failure state. However, the scavenger hunt bit is quite interesting in how it ties closely to and reinforces story points.

The story is the main selling point of this game in my opinion. Despite an absence of any voice acting, the characters presented and the story surrounding them is very compelling. That said, the story is completely linear so you are essentially buying a light novel and a jigsaw puzzle.

My biggest complaint is that there is a complete lack of any graphical options menu. This includes the ability to change the game's resolution. You can play in fullscreen, however this will stretch the game to fit your screen's aspect ratio which most likely isn't the same as the game's native resolution. This results in some weird things like an egg-shaped moon. I imagine there must be some sort of user-made fix for this, however I just played in windowed mode, which is absolutely tiny. Oddly enough, I found myself unbothered by it after about an hour into the game.

Considering this game costs about as much as a hamburger, even moreso when it's on sale, I feel like it was money well spent. If you're looking to play something in a similar vain that's a bit more depressing and grim, I'd suggest picking up Tell Tale's The Walking Dead.

To the Moon is a short game about the ups and downs of life and all of the little complications in between. The actual gameplay is basically just a scavenger hunt combined with a picture puzzle the likes of which you could find dozens of on a site like Newgrounds. It's none too difficult and as far as I could tell the game doesn't even have a failure state. However, the scavenger hunt bit is quite interesting in how it ties closely to and reinforces story points. The story is the main selling point of this game in my opinion. Despite an absence of any voice acting, the characters presented and the story surrounding them is very compelling. That said, the story is completely linear so you are essentially buying a light novel and a jigsaw puzzle. My biggest complaint is that there is a complete lack of any graphical options menu. This includes the ability to change the game's resolution. You can play in fullscreen, however this will stretch the game to fit your screen's aspect ratio which most likely isn't the same as the game's native resolution. This results in some weird things like an egg-shaped moon. I imagine there must be some sort of user-made fix for this, however I just played in windowed mode, which is absolutely tiny. Oddly enough, I found myself unbothered by it after about an hour into the game. Considering this game costs about as much as a hamburger, even moreso when it's on sale, I feel like it was money well spent. If you're looking to play something in a similar vain that's a bit more depressing and grim, I'd suggest picking up Tell Tale's The Walking Dead.