Sunken Engine

really cool game which need low system requirements to run recommened to buy

Decent Game, would give it a 3 out o 5 stars. Its not THE game or gem of all time, but its defo decent. Listed a quick Positives, Negatives and Ideas to improve the game at the bottom of the review. Id say its a pretty good game but needs to improve a bunch before I would play it again. Especially content wise for the World the game is lacking. You talk once to NPC's and thats it, no new dialogue no matter what happens, there also is no small talk or any further mechanics with them, three lines of dialogue and thats it. The Carnival games are fun, but only two exist that you beat first try in the same night buy empty the shelves and now you have nothing to do anymore. From now on, you start grinding and take a break by spending money on cosmetics for your shop. The Gameplay loop is fun, but when the Grind starts it becomes old pretty quick. There is not really anything to do, you can "upgrade" your shop and get new licenses, but they barely change visuals, the cosmetics are lacking a little too, You basically just grind away, since most of the Objectives are to buy a new license anyway, there is nothing to do except grind grind and grind. Id say the Game would be more then just decent if the Visuals would change not just a tiny bit but you can actually see a significant difference with new licenses and upgrades, Same for improving the interactions with the world, most places are quite empty from a players perspective. You see the same few ships every day and the same few people everyday. So bringing in a variety factor would be a big plus as well. Positives: - Art - Lore - Fun Gameplay loop until you start grinding. - Music is pretty nice and fitting Negatives: - Grind heavy gameplay - No Life sim mechanics - Limited interactions with the world that you can go through in the same night. - Empty locations - Few Ship- and NPC models. Ideas: - More ship and NPC models to give variety. You see massive ships going by, there is no way not one of them needs some repairs, and even small islands have communities reaching from a 100 to a few thousand people. And seeing the SAME cursed ship everytime is getting old too, I have the same crown five times now, it feels like Excalibur, so many copies that everyone has one now. - new shops and NPC's in the World - New lines of dialogue for NPC's and ways to interact with them. - Way to interact with the Community, a small island is BOUND to be a tight Crew. So Interacting with the Community would make the world more lively and break the grindiness of the Current Game stage. - New locations for Manors of the Noble families, maybe visiting the burned down Casino. - Giving old locations mechanics, instead of selling lighters,flasks and teapots you very obviously stole right in your "shop" corner, bring it to a person dealing in stolen goods, and lockpicks that appears at the market at night. Or being able to gather mushrooms and other things around the forest. - Contracts, for example: Contracts from the nobles to sabotage ships of rivaling companies, Contracts from the blackmarket to steal certain objects from ships. - Monthly/Daily costs, like Rent, electricity, Wages etc. - Needing to get fuel for Welder. - Different locations to take a dive at, you cant tell me someone suspicious never tossed anything in the sea close to the forest, or a cultist lost something close to the Castle ruins. - Employees for Bazaar and cracking oysters or fishing - A way to control music or even play your own music (via a folder) - More Events, like a day in the month in which Cult activities reach an all time high and you can interact with the Yellow robbed people, for example buy artifacts. Having the Community (the islanders) host small events, like market days, sacrifices to some mysterious power, and so on. - Having the carnival actually open more Games over time instead of the same two Games, like a wheel of fortune and other Games you usually see at the carnival, maybe asking the clown to tell you a joke and having more people appear at the Carnival in the first place, considering this is the "biggest" event at the moment, it seems very dead for that. - New Sanity events, at this point I am not scared or suprised by the same tall black figure showing up, and after having a talk with him at the door too, I dont think the Protagonist is scared of him anymore either.