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Posted on: February 28, 2023

Grindologist

Games: 280 Reviews: 19

Unexpectedly good game, great story.

The game is awesome! It has a slow start, but don't let that fool you. I played until the point of the first vote, then went to sleep. I've found myself going to take a piss in the middle of the night and then couldn't go back to sleep, thinking about how I could have done things better in retrospect, accounting for the new resource management mechanics that were presented. I went to my computer and restarted the game. I played the game until it was night again... Story: I replayed every save point multiple times to optimize everything and got everyone alive to the end. Even so, it made me tear up a few times, which is remarkable and it shows great storytelling, making you feel emotinally invested in the characters, feeling pride or joy sorrow for them without them even dying. I did not expect it to be this good. Gameplay: it starts off easy as you get accustomed to the mechanics and gets exponentially harder as you progress, then it eases up in the very last segment to let you focus on the ending of the story. It feels really well-paced and ever-challenging. The soundtrack was good and appropriate, with a few standout moments. Technical problems: The game had many, many small issues that I repeatedly encountered, mostly a lot of interface bugs and dozens of typos. I didn't encounter anything game-breaking or any crashes. The version I played was the 1.0.0 GOG launch version. Just as I finished the game, they released version 1.2, which I hope improves things. I still gave the game 5 stars because of 2 reasons: 1. Even with those issues, the game was still great. 2. I know that Bellular (the indie devs) did not release it like this out of malice or greed. I've been following them on YouTube for a long time. They are very pro-consumer, pro-employees and against always online DRM. It was quite simply lack of experience on their part. It was their first released game and I think it's amazing it came out this good. This game is truly an achievement on their part.

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Posted on: March 18, 2023

eastc

Verified owner

Games: 446 Reviews: 7

Wonderful little title

Great little game. Survival mechanics are light. Story is good. Characters are good. Endings are interesting. Music is good. At it's core it's a choose your own adventure type story with some light survival mechanics with a great cast of characters and an ending that's interesting in itself to explore that buttons up much of the story. You play the first mate that becomes the captain of a questionable expedition. The boat's various cast of characters is likeable. Wish there were more than were well fleshed out but the ones that were were real good. The scene/environment as the story progresses changes regularly which keeps things interesting. There's a number of twists too that keep things fun. It has a novel save system which lets you go back and choose different routes which is creative. v1.3.0 fixes all the major/minor bugs that cause problems. On GoG now. Before GoG had 1.3.x the devs were kind enough to help make a work around for a progress killing bug but after 1.3.x I was able to go back and test and things progressed fine. So, good support from the devs. For a dev's first release they did fantastic (despite some early release bugs - which I'm overlooking here because of the direct support from the devs when I posted my problem on their discord).

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Posted on: August 1, 2024

ince

Verified owner

Games: 83 Reviews: 14

An artistic gem, fun to play too!

It is at its core a resource management game, where you try to keep the morale of your crew high, while rationing food and heating supplies. Around this core, however, is a gripping story with beautifully written dialog and fascinating characters. Although the gameplay is simple, it is fairly challenging, even though I am no stranger to strategy games. The artistic style, including the pictures and the music, is simply beautiful. It made me really feel the weight of the critical decisions that I had to make.

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Posted on: February 4, 2025

mitulski_

Verified owner

Games: 82 Reviews: 1

good game, some flaws

+ good story, nice melancholic atmosphere + I like the artwork and + the atmospheric sound = replaying weeks/ rounds after failure feels like a chore (the dialogs are the same, all over again) - a few easy to fix spelling mistakes (bickets of coal :/) - missing left handed mouse support, no way to switch mouse buttons, game ignores OS mouse settings After all I still will try it again until I succeed - I don't think I will replay it afterwards. Would buy it again.

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Posted on: March 2, 2024

dgtlsrcrss

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Games: Reviews: 121

A gripping adventure

A well-written adventure with great atmosphere. Very tense but fair. The characters are realistic and grow on you. It's not impossible to keep all your crewmembers alive, but you may have to replay multiple weeks, and you certainly will be at the edge of your seat the whole time. There's some very interesting plot twists and turns at the end that add a lot to the story and make it even more intriguing. This is very much a visual novel in spirit, and I only wish it was a visual novel in code as well - it's beautiful and more dynamic like this, but there's so many branching paths I would like to explore and it's hard to stomach repeating scenes again and again without the 'skip' functions that a full visual novel would have.

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