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Still Wakes the Deep is a great Lovecraftian horror game (store.steampowered.com)

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It's pretty short at around 4-5 hours. I found the gameplay was excellent. I found difficulty was just right. It never got too frustrating, but I always felt challenged. It never got boring, and it was really fun to see how the environment kept changing as the game progressed. It also does a really good job of doing story telling through gameplay. I find a lot of games tend to have a game portion and a story portion. Here, they managed to blend both story telling and the game completely seamlessly. Highly recommend if you enjoy this genre of a game.

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[–] woe2you@beige.party 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@yogthos Can confirm, great game. I played it a while back, really enjoyed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t094jnq5b0k&list=PLd3xkCe4Xt9-suiGn9tmfD-AKw1v1ecVU

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago

I find it's such a great example of how less is more. I started playing Alan Wake 2 before it, and ended up giving up because I found the game was just tedious. There was just too much stuff going on like the memory palace, and environments where you just had to amble around without a clear purpose. I feel like there was a good core game idea that they just ended up adding to much stuff on top of. With Still Wakes the Deep you just have a really lean game that stays focused on its core concept. And I think it's a good example how a smaller studio ends up making a much better game because it has limited resources.