Sunken Engine

this game needs more work feels like early access.

There is a lot here I enjoy and know it will likely get better over time. But the controls, starting point, loading features (*especially when you are pressed for time), is not a smoothed out experience for myself. I want a polished game when I purchase it - not a game 75% done. However, I do have faith in the developers, and will come back in a few months. I'm hoping a lot of issues will be solved by then.

I loved the feeling I had when playing this game. The grinds are not too grindy and I loved certain interactions and the game just had that eerie beauty i expected. However, there were a certain amount of bugs when i played it. good thing is that they responded and fixed most of them in short notice. But I can't overlook the fact that they were there and some probably still are. Other than that I loved the inclusion of real things such as the Turkish ship.

I had a lot of fun with this game story was cool i did find the boat cleaning can get abit repetitive but honestly it was a good time!

I really wanted to like this game as I was a big fan of dredge's atmosphere and love cleaning/fixing games. Unfortunately this games controls are very clunky and unsatisfying which makes the main gameplay loop a slog. The underwater sections are especially bad as navigating the water while fixing and replacing parts is a struggle with the controls. This game also feels rather like the devs frankensteined the most popular games at the time mechanics together, (why does this game need fishing and a blue prince RNG room placement section, and a market?) The UI elements are very similar to dredge's and blue princes. The story and dialogue are also poorly written, they start multiple side stories, which you expect to evolve throughout the game but nothing ever comes of them. Some of the character interactions were strange and not in a lovecraftian horror way, more of this isn't how real people talk way. (main character is a stranger to everyone and asks really invasive questions and is hostile at times and everyones just chill with it?) It flopped between poorly written and chatgpt esq writing. The story was mildly interesting but paced extremely poorly and it was alot of people jus…

so good