Deliver At All Costs

Deliver At All Costs
Developer(s)	Far Out Games
Publisher(s)	Konami Digital Entertainment
Engine	Unity
Platform(s)	Windows PlayStation 5 Xbox Series X/S
Release	22 May 2025
Genre(s)	Action-adventure
Mode(s)	Single-player

Deliver At All Costs is a 2025 action-adventure game developed by Far Out Games and published by Konami Digital Entertainment. Announced in September 2024, the game was released for PlayStation 5, Windows, and Xbox Series X/S on 22 May 2025. Upon release, it received mixed reviews from critics.

Gameplay

Deliver At All Costs is a single-player action-adventure game. It is played from a third-person perspective with isometric graphics. The game is set across three fictional cities in the United States, which are St. Monique, Shellington Falls and New Reed. While the story is mostly linear and all three towns can only be accessed by progressing through this same story, all three cities are of an open-world scale, including side-quests in the form of characters requesting the player's help or issuing challenges, destructible crates containing money or crafting objects, as well as unique scattered vehicles. Most of the cities' environments are destructible ones, including the interiors of buildings that can be brought down completely, although the player should note that doing this extensively will inevitably draw police attention. The police can be averted by outrunning them and hiding in dumpsters pinged on the minimap, until the pursuit is called off.

Players control the character of Winston Green, which they can navigate both on foot - including jumping obstacles, navigating sceneries and buildings, using ladders and pushing crates to open an access or reach a higher elevation - as well as within any parked vehicle they can occupy (unlike games like Grand Theft Auto, there is no carjacking involved). Interaction with other characters is possible via conversation, but physical violence is conveyed only through pushing. There are also ways for the player to die, such as driving the vehicle towards water, lava or falling from a high altitude on a vehicle or exploding this same vehicle, but the player will always regenerate with no limited amount of lives.

Though the player can access almost all vehicles (which even counts as a side bonus across all maps), Winston's primary vehicle is the "We Deliver" pickup truck that is also modified throughout the game to perform the tasks the jobs demand as well as to gain an advantage or make delivery jobs easier. While some modifications are mission related and require no crafting items, such as the towing cable and an automated crane, others such as external airbags, wheel spikes and even large ship air horns can be installed for a combat advantage (or wreaking havoc) and thus require specific crafting items, that can be bought in shops spread across the cities or collected freely by finding and opening red chests spread across the cities as well - as an anti-frustration feature, it is possible to buy a special item for a high price that reveals the locations of all item chests and money crates).

Story

Setting

Deliver At All Costs is set in 1959, on three fictional towns across the United States Western Seabord (presumably between both the states of California and Oregon) - the Caribbean-like isle of St. Monique, the outback town of Shellington Falls and the sprawling metropolis of New Reed. The game's main protagonist is Winston Green, a down on his luck former engineer for the United States Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) whom heads off to get a job at the "We Deliver" courier service due to a radio job advertisement which was supposed to have been pulled off before. The company is headed by the ever-optimistic CEO Harald F. Gurther and his skeptical son Donovan, while being represented by Harald's niece Alison Denver. Other company members include fellow courier Norman Johnson, security officer Gordon Viktus, supervisor Johnny Russel, Human Resources manager Bertha Rover and fellow company workers Hank and Sara. Other characters include Admiral Armand Sterling, with whom Winston had worked before during his time at the AEC, and Florian Bailey, whom acts as Gurthers' legal advisor.

Plot

Winston starts his career at the "We Deliver" branch in St. Monique, proving himself to Harald with some successful, although unconventional services (such as delivering crates of fireworks that go live in the city while in transit or going through capers such as selling rotten watermelons posing as legitimately fresh ones). While Winston adapts well to his new life and even forms a friendship with Norman, Donovan grows further and further suspicious of Winston's background that seemingly doesn't match, and the company itself turns out to be struggling to the point Norman's job is stake. At the same time, Winston himself is haunted increasingly by dreams and hallucinations concerning a red fox akin to the one Winston failed to kill in his childhood. In spite of attempting to help Donovan in undermining a rival delivery company, Winston finds out Norman was nevertheless dismissed from the company. Frustrated, Winston oversleeps within "We Deliver", being awakened by an earthquake that shakes the St. Monique branch apart. Discovering the isle's volcano Mount Calahan has gone active, Winston sets out to clear his apartment only to find Donovan within it, discovering Winston Green is actually Winston Booker, a former AEC scientist whom was involved in a bizarre incident at New Reed University and is thus wanted for his involvement. While Donovan vows to uncover the whole truth, Winston sets out to rescue Norman and evacuate from St. Monique as it is destroyed by the volcano.

One year later, the "We Deliver" staff relocates to Shellington Falls and acquires new staff, yet it remains struggling with it's financial and judicial situation, while Winston himself suffers with the dreams and continues his clashes with Donovan and his assistant Bertha. One night as he returns home, Winston clashes with an AEC agent searching his trailer, unaware Gordon is watching it all and reporting back to Donovan, whom makes a deal with the AEC of delivering Winston's journal in exchange for participation. Armand arrives at Winston's trailer to inform of Donovan's involvement and tries leaving with the journal, but Armand is intercepted and killed by Gordon. Donovan presents Winston's journal to Alison to convince her of Winston's duplicity, and Winston repeated and fruitlessly attempts to meet Harald in an attempt to confess. Winston ultimately arrives to find Harald deceased in his office, with a newspaper clipping of a younger Winston on his hands, as well as documents proving Donovan planned to oust Harald from the CEO position. Forced to run away as he'd be considered a prime murder suspect, Winston retreats to his childhood farm home and digs up what he hid from the AEC, revealed to be an alien energy sphere. Gordon and Donovan track Winston down to the farm and attempt wrestling the sphere away from him, but the sphere activates and teleports both Winston and Donovan across time to a dystopian future where the AEC has become a dominant superpower. As Winston manages to break from the AEC imprisonment and return to the past, he's forced to run away to New Reed while Donovan returns after spending two years in the future, using the knowledge and technology he acquired to rebrand "We Deliver" into "Deliver At All Costs".

Two years later, Winston has become a fugitive, gathering up information collated on his experiences, the AEC reports Donovan acquired, and newspaper clippings on the alien artifact, on which it's capabilities proved a power too large for the AEC to handle and thus teleported the laboratory Winston was working on away, and prompted Armand and Winston on the agreement it should be forever hidden. At the same time, Winston has been conducting a guerilla campaign against "Deliver At All Costs", sabotaging Donovan and Gordon against investors and clients. As he catches work his original delivery truck is headed to the scrapyard, Winston reclaims it but is tailed by Gordon whom chases him to death when a railroad bridge falls atop his heavy load truck. In a final defying act, Winston refits the delivery truck with armor plating and uses it to invade and smash through the DAAC headquarters up to Donovan's office, where Winston confronts him. Getting the confirmations that Donovan also suffers the hallucinations and nightmares Winston had, as well as having sent Gordon to get the journal from Armand, Winston reclaims the alien sphere and takes Donovan into the pickup truck, where they jump down as the alien sphere activates again, teleporting both away.

In the post-credits scene, the tribunal court where Winston's case is being judged on (in spite of the absence of either Winston or Donovan) is disrupted by pro-Winston protesters, one of them carrying a sign stating "Winston will come back".

Development

Deliver At All Costs is the first game that Far Out Games developed, and was in development for four years. The studio is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Release

A demo for the Deliver At All Costs was made available at the 2025 Steam Next Fest. On the game's first week of release, it was made free on the Epic Games Store.

Reception

Reception

Aggregate scores

Aggregator	Score
Metacritic	(PC) 70/100 (PS5) 69/100
OpenCritic	54%

Review scores

Publication	Score
GameSpot	5/10
IGN	6/10

Deliver At All Costs received "mixed or average" reviews from critics, according to review aggregator website Metacritic.

External links

• Official website