Vessels

Really cool short science fiction story that gives heavy The Thing vibes. Enjoyed my time with it!

A short but well made story! The concept is interesting, and it was fun exploring, learning about the characters, and getting answers for the questions the story brought up. Had some nice life lessons too. Worth more then the asking price for sure! Easily recommended!

Ein Spiel was Spannung und Interesse für Charaktere innerhalb von 2 bis 3 Stunden erreicht. Man lernt die Crew mitglieder und deren Beziehungen untereinander kennen durch Unterhaltungen und Hinwiesen die überall im Schiff verteilt sind. Dafür das dieses Spiel scheinbar "nur" von ein paar Studenten entwickelt wurde bietet es eine erschreckend gute Geschichte.

A very fun little game with a good mystery behind it.

For such a low asking price this game is more than worth it. It will take you a few hours to finish, and doing so spins you a story that will have you eager to unravel more. The premise is unique and largely character-driven, centering around themes such as grief and identity. These themes are directly represented in the mechanics... but I am trying REALLY hard here not to spoil anything, so I'll just reccomend it now and let it speak for itself.

An adventure/sleuth game with off-screen psychological horror. There are prychologically wicked endings, a not-so-certain positive ending, and a very bugged true ending where you can save everyone. The characters grow on you. At first they feel cold because you don't understand what's hapening, but as the game goes on, you realize they had good motives to be that way. Then, they get some character development from one Act to another. Unfortunately, that's just more frustrating if you want to try to save them, the game is too bugged to provide a sense of completion: - You can't reach the true ending in an immersive way, or even through using your cue logically, what looks like a bug makes the "good" route you end up on random. - The dialogues don't bring up as many options as it would make with the clues you gather. - Voices are mentionned, but in the current version (1.1) there is no voice over, jsut nice sounds during dialogues. - The game doesn't save, so if you reach a bad ending ou must do everything over again, deaths included, and that get bothersome after a while. At that price, through, well, why not? You can always remove it from your account afterwards.

Everything up to Act 3 is perfect, the gameplay is intriguing and exploring the ship and reading the lore is really interesting. The interactions between the party is meaningful and they are unique personalities trying to battle an awkward environment they’ve found themselves in. And well… I would absolutely love to give this a positive review, but a pretty severe logic bug caused me to get the true ending without fulfilling the needed requirements, and in the end I was given finale scenes with missing context and references leaving me very confused and ruining the experience. The content that is there is good, but if you look in the steam forums of the game I’m not the only one that ran into logic issues, as others fulfilling the true ending requirements couldn’t get the true ending, and others got the true ending like me without meeting the requirements. Unfortunately these bugs severely hamper the experience as the game is majorly focused on the story. It just makes me sad.