DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain

Absolute cinema. Jokes aside, can't recommend this game enough for fans of Lovecraftian horror. The atmosphere and gameplay loop is *chef's kiss*, and few games managed to scare the living **** out of me like this one. The learning curve is very rewarding, and I found that the game very much rewards preparedness and severely punishes laziness. You know: "Overconfidence is a slow and insidious killer", as the narrator says in Darkest Dungeon. The similarity is undeniable but it does not take away from its originality and works very well. The game is heavily replayable as new difficulties unlock after beating it the first time, which you can suffer with for dozens of hours if you don't mind your sanity.

Amazing game. A cosmic horror diving exploration game with resource management and a touch of bace building. You have to make every dive count, before the Rainmaker whipes out your settlement. You can sacrifice your survivors to appease the cosmic entity, every good lovecraftian game can use a bit of human sacrifice. Loving this.

Игра очень понравилась. Очень атмосферная. Сюжет раскрывается к концу. Рекомендую

Gra przyjemna i mroczna jednak słabo zbalansowana. Nie chodzi mi o to że trudna wręcz przeciwnie. Da się stworzyć postać tak mocną że praktycznie nikogo więcej nie potrzeba. Ogólnie polecam.

The game was short and sweet, with nice vibe to it, thus I do recommend it. Alas, it is FAR too easy, with MASSIVE balancing issues. If You expect Darkest Dungeon brutality and losing characters until You gain knowledge, this isn't that. You can fix these by making a Custom game and cranking it hard and disabling sacrifices. However, since You need to beat it to unlock Custom difficulty, it no longer has the fresh, blind playthrough appeal to it. Would have been nice to have an option to force unlock all difficulties to begin with, perhaps with some warning. Also additional premade difficulty choices with nerfed sacrifice potency and timers. Possible spoilers ahead. Sadly it's too easy to go infinite on the postponement, it never came close to being a threat. You realize this very early, and the whole "doom countdown", which gave the game a lot of unique flavor initially, is gone. Disappointed that Rain difficulty doesn't amend this either, perhaps by halving sacrifice potency and cutting the countdown by further 10 days. The pace of my first Hard blind run was more than enough to beat those conditions, as my count never dipped below 17. Even with halved sacrifice yield You can eventually go infinite. Since You need to beat the game to unlock it and thus have knowledge and can progress much faster the second time, even those conditions would make Rain fairly easy as second run. The further You get, the less dangerous the areas and their gimmicks become, which is a strange balancing choice. You can completely remove negative traits from existence far too early / easily. Similarly, you can "disable" events You don't feel like dealing with too easily / too early. Similarly, since You can have many more characters than buildings to man, the Black Rain can be easily mitigated by having multiple characters with Meteorology. Speaking of traits, Obsessive is ABSOLUTELY busted. Without it my material yield would be hardly 1/10 of what it was by the endgame. Perhaps this is the reason why the game was so easy. Balancing recommendation for this: -5% weight per item, up to cap of -75%. Many skills are very underwhelming and I never ended opting for them. Never had need to duplicate any items, as Obsessive allows You to haul essentially the entire game map worth of resources home in a single go. Upkeep never dipped ~20 below max (basically only when blessing areas, after which I maxed it right away from the stuff leftover in the nets). I never used Infirmary aside of some trying some endgame temporary buffs, which were unnecessary by then. Perhaps this relates to my divers not taking heavy health/sanity damage during the dives and would otherwise be more useful. Overall, still a fun little game. If the Custom mode gets option to tweak sacrifice potency %, I may do another run on stats somewhere past Rain difficulty, 15 days and half worship gain!

very well done game, water version of darkest dungeon with more free gameplay. very good cosmic/lovecraftian ideas i haven't seen anywhere before (an area of the water polluted by some mysterious creature that won't stop bleeding is so unique and interesting). 10/10

honestly going ito it i did not think this game would have me hooked this bad. i am genuiley having fun playing scared and still getting loot. AND ITS GOT HP LOVE CRAFT?????? game of the year