The Pale Deep

Creative horror-ish game about diving into Neptune Unfortunately corporate doesn't wanna give us guns so we have to survive with a foghorn and some funky baloons Upgrades do exist but technically all that is needed is the knowledge of enemies' weaknesses to beat Death isn't just another jumpscare so if you dislike those you need not worry Duck Rating: 9/10

I couldn't make heads or tails of what to do in this game. The point of the game is to use the information you learn by failing repeatedly to figure out how to counter the entities on the planet and avoid them while taking pictures and descending further into the unknown. The tutorial itself gets you familiar enough with the controls of the vessel they're easy enough to learn. My issue with this was there was no consistent indication of anything happening before I died. While slowly going down, you stop and hear a tapping on the ship but you're never sure if it's an entity or just random noise due to the lack of feed back. (Sometimes creatures don't appear on the radar at all, this may be deliberate I'm really not sure) That's really the main issue over all with this game is that you get no feed back what so ever of anything and then you just sort of die. I do enjoy the idea of collecting information to figure out what each entity does but I die too quickly to be able to even consider what counter measure works for what entity, I've had instances where i've deployed decoys, honked the horn and shut everything down and still died. I've had times where I've ran away after deploying decoys and still died. I've tired a combination of practically everything. I've even sat and not descended or made a noise and still died. Myself and a group of friends sat down together and attempted to try to figure out what to do to make progress and none of us could figure it out either. I think in general the game as a concept is a fun idea, it's a space version of iron lung and that's a cool idea, but I feel as though the execution of this one makes it incredibly confusing, inconsistent and unclear what the rules are for each entity even after attempting to take notes and studying behavior of the different entities. You can find yourself taking a photo of a creature and wanting to admire said photo but then you die. The Radar also doesn't really give you a good idea of how far a way a creature is, as one second it appears on the edge of a radar the next you're dead, you could try going up or going down, or shutting down completely or turning off the radar but nothing seems to work. The game it self is a great idea but the sudden "Oop you died" fade to black makes the game confusing and frustrating. Some more information being given to the player could really help improve this game a-lot as I really wanted to like it but found myself just getting angry and asking "What am I doing wrong?" I couldn't make any kind of progress and I just kept dying. I had to give up and stop playing because I just don't know what to and I don't want to sit there angry and yelling at the screen wondering what i'm doing wrong.

If Iron Lung was a sci-fi horror detective game, you'd get this You have to be ready to pay attention to the smallest of details, but its worth it

HOW DO YOU BEAT THE GLOWIES HAUUUUUGH. If you liked Voyager-19 or Iron lung you'll love this game. Edit: Their weakness was "go back up" and i got three of them in a row -_-

look i'm totally biased, i am the guy that uploads the comic casey made to another site, i watched all the episodes of her and dummus' gregory horror show, i bought backspace, i watched and voted on Fate of the Solar System. The only things I haven't done is play Jovian Drive and watch Cosmomap Program, which I'm gonna do later (and read and watch a couple of "non-canon" stuff i guess) but this ♥♥♥♥ nails quiet horror, it's awesome. paying attention to all these things makes u genuinely scared to miss anything and everything degrades with time. i've played chito freddy fazbear, it felt less tense. this is awesome. also the monsters being randomized is genius. oh right i also got this for free so i'm obviously even more biased but shhhhhhhhhh. tl:dr: peam, 413/10

Played this game on my YouTube channel and it really grew on me. I didn't understand the gameplay at first, but the best way to sum it up is Iron Lung with randomized entities that can kill you. And FNAF-esque gameplay of being locked into a room and managing systems. You have to always be taking pictures of the outside, recording the audio going on around you, and keeping an eye on your radar. Once you've detected an entity with those things, its up to you to figure out how to combat/avoid it. And what each entity is defeated by randomized every time you hit New Game. So its like solving a puzzle that you can reshuffle every time. I can heartily recommend people give this game a shot. ESPECIALLY fans of Iron Lung and the original FNAF games.

That was fun! I keep dying :D My vessel keeps blowing up over and over again :D I took lots of pictures though :D no idea whats out there but it never comes over for tea just kinda sits out there being silly willy breaking my vessel and stuff. Wish it would come in to say hi. Love playing with the foghorn toot toot that is me!

Love this game and love this developer