5/10
Cute, hyper-repetitive fishing game. The gameplay loop is pretty addictive, easy-to-get-into, and funny.
Aesthetics, plot, worldbuilding, and atmosphere reinterpret Lovecraft without taste: the cute visuals, the chilling atmospheres, and the inert mechanics in any way manage to refashion cosmic horror, which instead here is just flattened. One of the worst examples of commodification of the source material, in that sense.
If you like boats and Lovecraft, play Sunless Sea instead.
Cute, hyper-repetitive fishing game. The gameplay loop is pretty addictive, easy-to-get-into, and funny.
Aesthetics, plot, worldbuilding, and atmosphere reinterpret Lovecraft without taste: the cute visuals, the chilling atmospheres, and the inert mechanics in any way manage to refashion cosmic horror, which instead here is just flattened. One of the worst examples of commodification of the source material, in that sense.
If you like boats and Lovecraft, play Sunless Sea instead.