Very strong opening, the gameplay loop is tight and addictive and there's a promise of a greater world beyond this tiny bay waiting for you. Once the tutorial is over and you venture off to explore a new island the overall shape of the game becomes obvious: four zones with four quests to do, and then the game's over. This realization took a lot of motivation out of me, it's a letdown to see in the genre of open sea exploration.

The other big issue is that the game's economy runs off the rails at about the half way point, I became massively cashflow positive and none of the end game upgrades seemed worth the investment. Without a hunger for more efficiency I completely fell out of the loop and just pushed to the end.

I hate to come down hard on this game since it's so polished in nearly every other respect, if I was the type who liked to fill in empty slots for the sake of it I probably would have loved this, but alas.