Sunless Sea

I've played this game about 6 or 7 hours, so I can not give an indepth review of things. But I can say that this game is fun and entertaining and makes me not want to stop playing. You can step in and play right away, with little knowledge of what you are doing, and it is fun. After an hour, I got the idea of things and didn't have to suffer through some tutorial to do so (thanks RPG's for making me hate tutorials). I'm sure the person that said unlike other Roguelikes that you spend a small amount of time on then die compared to this time sucker that you put many many hours into and then die is probably right and I'm sure that is frustrating... but the thing is, those hours are FUN hours. And that is my review. The game is fun to play so while I am sure it will show its flaws at some point, right now I'm having to much fun to care much about them. -- I'll try to update this review at a later time.

In a modern age of 'whoa, I need more Battle Royale Games-as-Services by Subscriptions for 19.99/month!' this masterpiece deserves so much more respect. Great stylish visuals. Robust gameplay which doesn't mess with narrative. And, oh, damn, the narrative is AWESOME! Full of Bioshock Infinite level surprises, suspense, each playthrough is a dramatic story which is only that much predictable. Especially if one won't go googling for spoilers. Besides, multiple endings. With only one true ending. (aside from drowning, being eaten, being shot in the back or kicking the bucket after irritating the Powers... there are Powers, you know... which is also a true ending although not the winning one) One of few narrative-heavy games which you can not only WIN or LOSE but also finish it with a draw, DRAW, dammit! (in fact, can't recall any other games with such feature) Of course, if you don't like to read - kindly skip this game. You'll be disappointed. Otherwise... welcome... my... DeLiCiOuS... FRIEND!!!

It's slow. It's weird. At times a bit uncomfortable. Well-written, fantastic soundtrack, great atmosphere, cool stories. I love it.

On start I initially did try to explore but found that the starting constraints were to severe to get very far before being stranded. If you run out of fuel within boatlength of a port the game still acts like you're miles from shore. I found that there was a realatively easy way to grind for resources but after a few rounds is presented me with a mission to bring to the goods to the other end of the map, which I accidentally accepted and couldn't back out of. I died trying to get there and restarted inheriting the upgraded house, but then a UI flaw caused me to just restart entirely. If you buy a trade good and you hold is too full there's no way to simply cancel the trade. You have to dump cargo which basically dooms your whole effort to upgrade. Upon restarting I found that port I needed to grind had respawned unacceptably far from London, so I just kept restarting until put it back where I wanted it. Then I discovered that my decision to skip character creation couldn't simply be revisted later. This cost me resources, which made the grind that much more difficult, which made me stop playing. I may pick it up again, but nothing good that I could say about this game would negate how frustraing the overall experience was.

This game starts out with so much potential, following in the footsteps of Fallen London, at least through the first 10 seconds of Character Creation. Then immediately after becomes a game of grinding through character deaths until you cannot stand it anymore. The game mechanics are super grindy and impossible to keep up with fairly. They clearly did not design this game for lore or story, as there is next to none. They did not design it with good gameplay or customization. I am not sure what is good about this game. I really wish I would have trusted the reviews beforehand and not paid an outrageous amount for this game. This game would be good for a phone app that you turned on for 10 minutes and then died and then you're foods ready or whatever and you can forget about the game. Not good for PC