Ocean's Venus

Very spooky, tense and creative little game! Great sound design and attention to detail, with a fun gameplay loop. Horror is best when simple, and this game is a prime example of that principle. Wonderful stuff!

This game was fun. Creepy and scary. I am really bad with horror games but I love the genre and this one made me scream with the jump scares.

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the monster just camps the main hall and you're forced to wait doing nothing for minutes until it hopefully leaves. good idea, bad execution

"Ocean's Venus" is a short GameMaker Studio tech demo that presents the gamer with some point and click adventuring through static screens. The venue: A cargo ship built in the 1950's with electronic touchpads and computers, so you know, I guess the developer learned all they know about the 1950's from any era other than the 1950's. It's a "horror" themed game, and the horror is knowing someone out there genuinely thought it would be okay to spend $100 to publish this on Steam Direct. What do you do in the game? Point and clicking, a couple of mini puzzles like a little ripoff of Pipe Dream. This comes across as something unambitious and "simple" in terms of implementation and technical quality and depth, more like a game dev tutorial or an experiment. It's a classic case of a developer prioritizing the low effort needed to get a game listed on Steam over the actual delivery of a technically sound or compelling product. Whatever is needed to hammer out something "good" enough for Steam Direct self-publishing. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars…