HelloThe game is beautiful and atmospheric like everyone else said. The writing is elegant and in-depth with a bit of humor, I feel like I'm reading Sherlock Holmes. My cons are: The creatures/ships to battle are way too seldom. If your goal is to collect specimens it takes days. And yes the battle system is clunky but I guess that's the point, to make it feel like a real, old ship. Like other reviewers, I've been playing a couple hours a day for a week, and even when not dying, have not made it even close to 5% to getting a new ship, other than that joke dinghy. I understand this is a rouge game, which is supposed to be unforgiving and repetitive, but with the slow speed of your basic ship and the ridiculous tiny payouts from your port reports, it gets aggravating. I know there are the quests but how to save for a 3000 ship with 10 echos per report? The game feels great though. I will keep at it.Update: I've kept at it, and I've given up. Getting even a few hundred echoes takes a ridiculous long time, meanwhile you have to slog back to London for usually little payback. I'm sorry but some games make me want to throw the device. It's beautiful, but for me the advance curve or whatever is too annoying. Thanks for a game with nice music, graphics, and dialogue/writing though

I played this game on Steam, and now on my iPad. It's still excellent. Yes, the game CAN be unforgiving (that's the entire point), so it makes you extra cautious when you exploring a new area. The slowness of the ship (at FIRST) can add to this sense of vulnerability, which is why this game is fun in the first place. Once you upgrade your engines, or do the quests to get 1 of 2 very good engines, the world opens up. Note: to the dude below (like all reviews) who says "Game crashes immediately." Not true. They are A. Using an old model that the game doesn't even support. B. Are at the max on memory so the tablet can't even provide resources to actually run the game. Or C. They are lying. You see this in EVERY review section. And it's never true, unless backed up by a LOT of similar sentiments. To this day, I haven't yet had an app game crash repeatedly. Don't give that nonsense below ANY credence at all.

Excellent game. Beautiful, clever puzzles, quick advancement to ever more interesting challenges if one is bold and clever.I've had this game for several months and I am still finding whole new adventures, new avenues. It is cool that the way the game evolves as an experience, it continually opens new perspectives of play.At first, it is a simple exploration, figuring out how the boat works, finding strange, and sometimes finding unbeatable opponents (I remember how proud I was for fierce sea [I mean zea] battles... backing up a very damaged ship through a narrow curving channel, while shooting at an opponent four times my size). Then it was learning the commerce of the zea and how to improve my ship, thrive, and then excel. The stories are a lot of fun, the choices are clever, and bring in some self reflection about the ethics in games decisions. The scoring and rewards is clever and subtle. One can create interesting characters through the choices, and thereby attract unique challenges and rewards.Clever interface. The writing is good. Clever. Funny. Once in a while I have to look a word up. That is surprising. :)

What a way to indulge your wanderlust.This is a richly worded literary adventure game of the highest caliber. The writing is marvelous, and the world-building is incredible.You start slow. You fail. You will curse the game, and you will be cursed. Beasts will sink your ship. Darkness will defeat you. But surrender to the call of the dark Unterzee, and an almost unbelievably huge world is there to be discovered.Yes, I wish I sailed a bit faster. And I would love to see the journal aspect improved, with a better record of deeds and dialogues. This game had me taking notes. But I loved all of it.I don’t know how many hours I’ve played. I’ve died. I’ve sailed off the map. My scion was murdered. I’ve achieved my ambitions. I’ve retired. I’ve set sail anew.If you can dig on some comic-horror gothic literature, and if you can enjoy managing story quests and deep inventories, and if you can invest some time into a darkly twisted web of words, then this game has a world for you to love and fear and get lost in.Lo, I become one of the drownies... rejoice..