Play as the captain of a steamship on an underwater ocean surrounding the fictional city of Fallen London. Manage your ship's fuel and food supplies as you try not to go mad fighting off lovecraftian monsters.
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I wanted to love this game a lot more than I actually loved it. The text is well-written but overwhelming in its frequency. You have to do a lot of mundane early in the game before you can start taking risks. The game world is almost too open - you're supposed to make your own adventure but there's very little extrinsic motivation to even get you started.
Maybe just skip this one and try Sunless Sky
Maybe just skip this one and try Sunless Sky
Had this one on my wishlist for almost two years. Finally bought and was really looking forward to it, however I was incredibly disappointed by the slow, aimless gameplay and the walls of text that I could not get myself to read in their entirety
This one may not be for me. Right off the bat is a wall of text, both for lore and gameplay (which I found to be really poorly explained by a text-prompt tutorials) so that was bit of a set off.
Then the more "actual" gameplay, that was basically sail around aimlessly in the sea and get some random wall of texts about stuff that the game didn't bother explaining. I didn't found it fun nor in the concept, nor gameplay, nor setting. Just felt like a drag.
Then the more "actual" gameplay, that was basically sail around aimlessly in the sea and get some random wall of texts about stuff that the game didn't bother explaining. I didn't found it fun nor in the concept, nor gameplay, nor setting. Just felt like a drag.
(warning: incomplete thoughts ahead)
thrilling in atmosphere, in games of luck, and in reckless chases and absconds from terrifying monsters. they, in fact, proceed to obliterate you regardless.
gameplay mechanics are fundamentally driven around written narrative, with all major interactions with the content of the game being delivered via journal, dialogue, atmospheric description. a reading game in a way, much like its roots, Fallen London.
moving the ship around and shooting the cannon is fun too c:
thrilling in atmosphere, in games of luck, and in reckless chases and absconds from terrifying monsters. they, in fact, proceed to obliterate you regardless.
gameplay mechanics are fundamentally driven around written narrative, with all major interactions with the content of the game being delivered via journal, dialogue, atmospheric description. a reading game in a way, much like its roots, Fallen London.
moving the ship around and shooting the cannon is fun too c:
Every so often I find myself typing "games like Sunless Sea" into Google to see if something, anything else has been made that gives me something approaching the same experience this does. To explore a strange land where truly anything can lie on the horizon and where all manner of adventures await.
One of the few truly Weird games out there in which weird doesn't solely mean something that inspires fear and revulsion, but can also inspire awe, curiosity, laughter and love (though there';s plenty of the former two, don't get me wrong).
One of the few truly Weird games out there in which weird doesn't solely mean something that inspires fear and revulsion, but can also inspire awe, curiosity, laughter and love (though there';s plenty of the former two, don't get me wrong).