Recent reviews by Que

Very much like HoMM3, nostalgia bonus points

Was an amazing game even before the charity idea! :)

Better than Civ 6, some features -like religion and culture could be more flashed out, but I'll wait for DLC.

I'm sorry to say that the game is a dissapointment to me. Let mi list some examples of things that the previous game did better.
- after I got into a seatruck I became the apex predator of the ocean, and all Leviathans are instantly trivialized. If you mount the defensive countermeasures that is.
- In the original it was way more exciting trying to sneak past the leviathans is the Lost River. Crystal Cavers are was worse than the River. There is almost nothing there but the Shadow Leviathans. It was super easy to get lost since they look very uniform.
- The lack of threat in general - seriously who thought of making ONE creature that could be a threat? And to contain it to a specyfic area? Part of the excitement of the first game was the almost constant danger of falling pray to a Reaper.
- all the above ground segments ware pretty bad (other than discovering the Frozen Leviathan)
- too many oxygen plants for me - it was way to easy to dive early game
- I sometimes had to google what to do next
- bugs are happening - falling below terrain, fish swimming inside my base
- the caves are too bright - on the things that makes them less scary - way to much shining crystal
- too much screaming - got boring really quickly and signified nothing, since the enemies were not dangerous


Things I liked:
- jukebox
- the mine and underwater lab areas
- the tentacle-trap enemies
- the posters and pictures as collectibles
- voice acting
- the Frozen Leviathan was cool - wish there were more creatures like it in the game
- i liked the shirmp creatueres althou nor sure what they ware supposed to be doing - never got attacked by one
- lilipads zone was cool
- see monkey ware somewhat interesting
- age progression in animals is cool, do it more

Ideas for the next game:
- more different leviathans:
- crab leviathans, shrimp leviathans, more different behaviours - hiding in wait, trapping the player, fighting each other, using camuflage - like put the purple leviathan in the purple biom, have it sit in a hole in the ground and jump out to snach sharks out the water.
- have large crab leviathans walk on the sea floor - maybe with some growth on them to harvest or leaving minerals in their trail
- have an angler fish leviathans that lure creatures in with light resembling smaller fish that the player might need
- make the depth darker - force the player to relay on a light that would attract predators ( in late game have a nightvision upgrade for vehicles and personal
- give vehicles access to a 3d map of surrondings is the same way the seaglide does
- make tech fragments more sparse - it is very weird to see 3 sea glider fragment in a single frame - like how much equipment did Alterra lose? Have equipment placed inside bases and other places where it makes sense

A very good game in my opinion, it has simple mechanics, but can be hard to master. As expected from an indie developed , it is a rather short game, the 2 campaigns took me about 6 hours. I don't know if it is worth the full Steam price, I bought it on a sale for 3,99euro. It's generally funny, and has some really great moments. The soundtack is also okey, but not excelent.

TL;DR: It's good. Play it

Great 5 minute expireince.

The short campaign? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥,,, it has zero plot, it just makes you destroy factions in a specific order on a new map, it would have been much better as a faction pack. I liked that you get Todbringer for winning tho.