Recent reviews by Kaappihurri

PROS:

- Awesome world building, 10/10 storytelling and atmospheric visuals make the game intriguing to play.

- The choices you make really affect the risks you'll have to take to succeed in achieving your goals. Most of the time it is high risk = high reward but sometimes the penalty you receive for taking the risk and failing will cause you to lose the game which also adds up to the importance of evaluating every choice you are given because even a single bad choice will backfire later.

- The game rewards careful planning; the importance of fuel, money, supply and cargo space management as well as your route choice are all things that you will want to look into before setting sails as re-stocking along the way won't always be an option once you leave the harbor.

- It is very hard to speak about the horror elements without slipping spoilers but the 'bad things' in the game are just EPIC.


CONS:

- When your captain dies, it doesn't matter how far you got with the quest lines or how many you completed. You will have to start all over and often re-do some of the quests.

- Depending on how far you get before you die, how many times you die and if you already know how the map works, moving your ship from one place to another accompanied with the lame combat system can sometimes make the game experience a bit passive and/or boring.

- Not necessarily a con but it is worth mentioning that you probably won't have any fun if you don't read the texts as most of the interesting things in the game are in text form.

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Overall Sunless Sea is a great game for exploring the unknown. The game provides hours of story content to enjoy and even though dying after a long successful run with your captain may be a shattering experience, you will always be left with some new information about quest strategies and efficient resource management which helps you get further with your new captain. My personal rating for this game = 8/10.