Europa One

I'm changing my review to positive after a major bug has been fixed. This game offers a totally unique take on the well-known formula that was introduced by the groundbreaking title Iron Lung: what if, instead of stationary landscape elements, we were looking for living and breathing creatures? This is a brilliant idea, that was brilliantly executed in this game by an outstanding visual and sound design: we are all alone in the ice-encrusted ocean of Europa, one of Saturn's moons (if I remember well!), inside our little submarine, and what we are looking for are 20 majestic and, let me say, pretty creepy creatures that roam freely in these dark and cold waters. The fear factor comes exactly from the incredibly realistic behavior of these creatures, that slowly emerge from darkness right in front of us, and calmly swim along their own routes while we record our sightings and pay attention not to get too close! Even if these are fictional creatures, they move and behave exactly like the real-life alien animals that truly inhabit our oceans. They convey the same unsettling sense of otherwordly mystery, the same sensation of being in front of something that follows its own unknown rules, which may be much different from ours. That's what makes deep sea creatures so scary, their capacity to feed our fears of the unknown, the same fears that HP Lovecraft masterfully exploited in the creation of his cosmic horror universe. For all these reasons I find this game particularly noteworthy, and absolutely recommend it if you are in for a different but equally scary kind of horror experience. Cheers guys!