Sunken Engine

Good stuff lots of fun

TLDR: Game has great vibes, cool art style, and a couple good scares, but you will beat it very fast & get to experience little to none of the cool powers if you don't take your time. This game is great. Little rough around the edges like most indie games. But overall a great game. I feel the description of the game is a little deceptive. There is less of a mystery on each ship, and more of a you work on random ships in a sort of cultic/haunted town. This game has a lot of charm, and cool features like many different ship repairs, and balancing a personal market while working on ships, while also having cool eldritch powers to help. But none of the matters as much, the main reason people should play this is the vibe, these sort of spooky blue collar job games like this & shift at midnight all feel a little similar, but this one has really cool Call of Cthulhu art & scares. There is nothing more fun that working on a boat only to hear breathing, turn around, and see a gigantic leviathan peaking over the side staring at you, just to disappear a split second later. Also while the shadow people w/ red eye got old quick, the door answering spooks can be really cool & unique. But for anyone playing this I have one piece of advice, USE YOUR POWERS & take the game slow. When you get to the end of the game, you lose you cool powers, and w/ the speed I made money, I had like all the upgrades & perks in the first week & a half. So the game will go by quick, and you may lose out on the occult powers before you even really get the scarce materials to use them. Haunted ships don't pull in often & you usually only get 1 item for 1 spell. So I never got to use anything other than the storm, and summon ship spell. I played about 10 hours and that is while just messing around too. Overall this is the only complaint I really have too, I feel like the blue prince cruise ship is also a little boring w/ little horror and not much content to help you out on the main island, just feels like a bit of a time padding side activity, other than to get the artifact didn't really give me any incentive to go back. I also know that a lot of people find the ship repair tedious, but I tried to treat every ship like a racecar pit crew & fly around fixing as many as I could a day, think that helped w/ the tedium and make it more fun, would recommend playing this way. Overall though this is a great, semi rough, but cool stylistic short game. I hope the devs do well w/ this one and continue to add content & bugfixes in the future.