I'm in the middle of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea right now and I saw a notification that this was on sale on Steam so I figured that was a sign. I'm a naturally claustrophobic guy so the idea of being on a submarine has always scared me, and after watching Das Boot they terrify me.
This little game does a good job of capturing the dread and claustrophobia of being on a submarine, with the added horror elements of being submerged in an ocean of blood in a universe in which all inhabited planets and their stars suddenly vanished. That being said, the experience of this is mostly tedious- cross-referencing coordinates with a map, delicately fine-tuning the angle of the submarine; but the tedium builds up the anxiety. The suspense of the proximity sensors going off when there shouldn't be anything there leads to a couple good jump-scares. But overall don't go into this with too high of expectations. It is mostly a really cool concept executed in a very limited scope. It doesn't overstay it's welcome I guess, which is nice.
This little game does a good job of capturing the dread and claustrophobia of being on a submarine, with the added horror elements of being submerged in an ocean of blood in a universe in which all inhabited planets and their stars suddenly vanished. That being said, the experience of this is mostly tedious- cross-referencing coordinates with a map, delicately fine-tuning the angle of the submarine; but the tedium builds up the anxiety. The suspense of the proximity sensors going off when there shouldn't be anything there leads to a couple good jump-scares. But overall don't go into this with too high of expectations. It is mostly a really cool concept executed in a very limited scope. It doesn't overstay it's welcome I guess, which is nice.