Freely dive into an expansive section of seafloor, from shimmering reefs to inky depths. Unlock upgrades and make discoveries that allow you to open up new paths, uncovering strange creatures and environments as you do.
Navigate an elegant, intuitive UI via touch or mouse controls. Interpret signals, set headings, and map the ocean through experimentation and intuition.
Discover and catalogue species through observation, scanning, taking samples, and interacting with alien life. Read Ellery’s notes, look at her sketches, and help her classify an entirely new ecosystem.
Choose whether to study creatures, investigate secrets or dive new areas, then come back to your base to study samples in the lab, chat to Ellery or read her journals to understand more about this world.
Through limited communication learn more about the person whose suit you inhabit, and help guide her towards a terrible truth. What you experience together will bring you closer.
Posted on: April 4, 2020
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Zweryfikowany użytkownikGry: 72 Opinie: 8
A Voyage made Vicariously
In Other Waters (IOW) is one of those games best described as an "Experience". Getting comfortable with the contrivances that make its premise work might take effort, but those who favor concept over visuals, might find IOW pretty satisfying! You play as an Artificial Intelligence exploring the breathtaking beauty of an aquatic Alien World. This might seem pretty straightforward, but the twist here is that you also see and interpret the world as an AI. That is to say: on a limited basis. Yours is a world of gauges, systems and vectors. The alien lifeforms flitting past you might be a wondrous sight for human eyes, but to you it's just a blip on the sonar screen. As an AI you also lack purpose and possess none of the wanderlust that would drive a human to explore, and so you start the game dormant. In comes Dr. Ellery Vas, who IS a real human, fully capable of appreciating the beauty all around. She also happens to be stuck in the same diving suit from which your AI is run, and so it becomes Vas who gives you purpose. It is only through her text-based amazement that you - the player - get to experience planet Gliese 677Cc. Now, the cynically inclined among us might say, "Great, another indie pixel-project that replaces graphics with a bunch of text." To those people I wouldn't recommend the game. However, I do belief that this visual simplicity serves a greater purpose. The minimalist design and music do enough to set an atmosphere, while and the oddness of the concept raises interesting questions on how we perceive and value life. What you perceive as a mere sonar blip, is an earth shattering discovery to Dr. Vas and it's kinda endearing. While the story does swerve too closely to the "human capitalism bad, nature good" sentimentality that's rife in gaming right now, I find IOW's take to be earnest and the new perspective interesting enough for me to recommend it. Just make sure you're willing to allow a high-concept title like this, the leeway it needs.
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