it's a bit like Alien but from an ecological POV.

a very rewarding game if you like checking systems and keeping things in order.

beautiful colour pallette. some really nice descriptive prose that does more than maybe realistic graphics ever could in terms of transporting you into an alien world.

i remember at the end of jurassic ian malcolm was like "humans are so egotistical and stupid for thinking they could end the world. we can end ourselves but not life", and i remember michael crichton feels really contemptuous here. but in other waters is much in love with all forms of life, it's only really down on corporations and capitalism, not human beings, which i think is nice.