DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain

Super wciągająca gra, która na początku trzyma klimat grozy by na końcu zamienić się w grę o orientacji przestrzennej. Przejście całej wymagało od mnie 17 godzin. Polecam i liczę na rozwój kontentu :D

The game was short and sweet, with nice vibe to it, thus I do recommend it. Alas, it is FAR too easy, with MASSIVE balancing issues. If You expect Darkest Dungeon brutality and losing characters until You gain knowledge, this isn't that. You can fix these by making a Custom game and cranking it hard and disabling sacrifices. However, since You need to beat it to unlock Custom difficulty, it no longer has the fresh, blind playthrough appeal to it. Would have been nice to have an option to force unlock all difficulties to begin with, perhaps with some warning. Also additional premade difficulty choices with nerfed sacrifice potency and timers. Possible spoilers ahead. Sadly it's too easy to go infinite on the postponement, it never came close to being a threat. You realize this very early, and the whole "doom countdown", which gave the game a lot of unique flavor initially, is gone. Disappointed that Rain difficulty doesn't amend this either, perhaps by halving sacrifice potency and cutting the countdown by further 10 days. The pace of my first Hard blind run was more than enough to beat those conditions, as my count never dipped below 17. Even with halved sacrifice yield You can eventually go infinite. Since You need to beat the game to unlock it and thus have knowledge and can progress much faster the second time, even those conditions would make Rain fairly easy as second run. The further You get, the less dangerous the areas and their gimmicks become, which is a strange balancing choice. You can completely remove negative traits from existence far too early / easily. Similarly, you can "disable" events You don't feel like dealing with too easily / too early. Similarly, since You can have many more characters than buildings to man, the Black Rain can be easily mitigated by having multiple characters with Meteorology. Speaking of traits, Obsessive is ABSOLUTELY busted. Without it my material yield would be hardly 1/10 of what it was by the endgame. Perhaps this is the reason why the game was so easy. Balancing recommendation for this: -5% weight per item, up to cap of -75%. Many skills are very underwhelming and I never ended opting for them. Never had need to duplicate any items, as Obsessive allows You to haul essentially the entire game map worth of resources home in a single go. Upkeep never dipped ~20 below max (basically only when blessing areas, after which I maxed it right away from the stuff leftover in the nets). I never used Infirmary aside of some trying some endgame temporary buffs, which were unnecessary by then. Perhaps this relates to my divers not taking heavy health/sanity damage during the dives and would otherwise be more useful. Overall, still a fun little game. If the Custom mode gets option to tweak sacrifice potency %, I may do another run on stats somewhere past Rain difficulty, 15 days and half worship gain!

Praise be the Rainmaker! Addicting gameplay loop with challenging gameplay but not too challenging on normal. Love the Lovecraftian horror. Scratched the itch I had after playing Dredge.

Good creepy game

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Its a great mix of Dave the Diver and Darkest Dungeon. Diving is both scary and relaxing at the same time. The timer is a non-issue if you know how to use the Altar effectively. You can definitely stretch it out as much as you want more than enough to explore the deep.

I enjoy the atmosphere of this game, the very first playthrough is definitely the most enjoyable, exploring the different areas for the first time, discovering the dangers. Its all very fun. What I think would make this a bit better though is different maps to explore in different runs and maybe a day night cycle if you spend too much time in the water. Other than that this game was very fun.