Voyage: Journey to the Moon

This trip through Van Allen into the old girl is definitely more realistic than the staged Apollo 11 mission. The two essential elements of life are present there: water and money. Everything is as 19th-century novelists (such as Jules Vernes and H.G. Wells) knew or fantasised. Played twenty years ago on CD-ROM.

DO NOT BUY ON STEAM IT DOESN'T WORK ON STEAM ANYMORE. Game is having a very major compatibility issue that even dgvoodoo2 couldn't fix for me. get the GOG version, as they changed the game's compatibility settings there to work on modern machines.

Ignore game time - I couldn't get this to run through Steam and had to play directly from the exe file PLUS a ROM I had downloaded. Getting this to work on Windows 10 was pretty difficult. But once I successfully booted it, Voyage: Journey to the Moon played and felt exactly the same as when I first borrowed it from the library all those years ago...this is a magical, intelligent point-and-click with such a fascinatingly in-depth examination of life on the moon. This game rewards logic and patience, and is unbelievably satisfying when you persist and get a puzzle right. Even if you occasionally use a walkthrough to get through it (as I did) I wholeheartedly recommend this treasure. Kheops studio made something so special that by the end, when it was time for Michel to launch his shuttle and return home, I didn't want to leave.

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I don't know if it's because I've got two screens, modern day computer problems, or what the major problem is.. But my screens go absolutely nuts when I start the game up. Crashes if I click during a cutscene. Eh.. I gave up on trying to get this one to work properly.

I used to play this game when I was young, I guess when it was released. I've a huge amount of nostalgia for it but it still holds up as, in my opinion, a really fantastic example of the genre. (I couldn't get on so well with their other, more well known games, tbqh. But this one has my heart)