This game is bizarre, incomprehensible, and slow. The controls are unintuitive. The combat is sluggish and exploitable. The text values are difficult to understand. The economy is harsh and unforgiving. All it takes is a single dumb, uninformed mistake to lose multiple hours of playtime.

None of that matters. This game is simply striking; its world visually gorgeous and atmospherically possessing. No other game has ever felt so immersive to me. The mystery of an oceanic underworld, the camaraderie between crewmates, the thrill of discovering the unknown, the frustration of sudden death, the eerie terror of being alone in a dark and monstrous void, the blissful relief when returning home, the horror, HORROR of witnessing otherworldly events beyond human control or comprehension. It's all so beautiful.

This game is bizarre, incomprehensible, and slow. The controls are unintuitive. The combat is sluggish and exploitable. The text values are difficult to understand. The economy is harsh and unforgiving. All it takes is a single dumb, uninformed mistake to lose multiple hours of playtime. None of that matters. This game is simply striking; its world visually gorgeous and atmospherically possessing. No other game has ever felt so immersive to me. The mystery of an oceanic underworld, the camaraderie between crewmates, the thrill of discovering the unknown, the frustration of sudden death, the eerie terror of being alone in a dark and monstrous void, the blissful relief when returning home, the horror, HORROR of witnessing otherworldly events beyond human control or comprehension. It's all so beautiful.