Das Geisterschiff / The Ghost Ship

This game is really cool, but I can't get past the 1 color palette. It makes it really hard to navigate through the game- even if there was 1 more color to even things out, it would really make the game more playable. I really really want to like this game

NOTE: I am not very good at this game currently so I didn't anywhere near finish it, however I still want to throw a recommendation at it This is a dungeon crawler with punishing combat that borders on, and might even wholly leap into, survival horror. You have very limited ammunition and even more limited health, with the only method of recovery coming from rare workbenches that consume raw materials. The dungeons are complex and sprawling but are laid out in sensible arrangements for their contexts. While the first thing that stands out about the game is definitely the visual style, the part of the presentation that is truly sublime is the music. I don't know how I would describe it but it is so captivating while perfectly setting the tone for the post-apocalyptic settings you will be delving into. Most of the time soundtracks just wash through me but it's been on my mind consistently from the first time I tried it early last year. Oh yeah you are in a cool mecha as well, which is always bonus points Preliminary rating of a 4/5

i love this game's aesthetic. i love the vector art virtual HUD look. i love the hardcore resource management, and the matter-of-fact corporate dystopian horror writing. the only thing i don't love is the design of the 3d models of the humanoid mecha, the rest of the game looks practical and oppressively utilitarian, while the mecha look like gundams, with large pointy shoulder pads. that would be fine, except all the humanoid mecha models also look way too flat from the sides, they have no depth to them at all, no backpacks or anything, they look like blocky flattened gingerbread mecha. to the dev's credit, you really only get like one opportunity in the game to see the models from the side, in the security RCS lockers aboard the ship level, but i was disappointed nonetheless. especially given the scale of the setting and the mechs, i would have gone with a much bulkier, deeper, boxier design for the mechs, something closer to Maschinen Krieger. i have to wonder how the pilots even fit inside the mechs in this game, the torsos look so thin from the front and so narrow from the sides, but they also don't seem to make sense as power armor suits, the limb placement doesnt match up. maybe the pilot is standing in the torso with arms crossed like a mummy, kinda like in daemon x machina, but that seems not comfortable and not as cool as a tank or helicopter style cockpit or bulky power armor imo, bizarrely anime for the industrial dystopian writing of this game. other than the humanoid mechs i think all the other models and levels look great, its clearly not an issue of skill. i'm looking forward to finally getting to the next games now that i've finally beaten this game.

Neat and cool dungeon crawler mech game!

Fun dungeon crawler, but bring some graph paper because it gets challenging to memorize after a bit.

A nice entry into the dungeon crawler genre, it has an interesting aesthetic and pacing to it. It took some time and a few restarts to get into the right mindset for it, but once I did I beat it in two sittings. I would say it could do better to introduce concepts, but as the first of a small series it starts off on good foundations. It's not overly long, took me 8 hours or so, and that seems about right.

it's gud