DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain

If you enjoyed "Dave the Diver" you will enjoy this game too. The atmosphere is pretty creepy and the enemies keep you on your fins.

For the price point this game is pretty good. It offers more than enough content and a ok amount of replayability. There was only 1 minor bug I encountered with my time in this game but it didn't really affect anything important. The voice acting is very good and much better than I would've expected, and the game does have a decent story. Although the ending is a bit vague as to what exactly happens and having to do a lot of guess work wasn't very satisfying. The art style and sound design is great and builds a fantastic atmosphere. While the game wasn't particularly that scary or frightening for me I can definitely see how it could be for others. Especially if you have a phobia for the ocean or sea monsters. Discounting the time I spent afk it took me about 8 hours to beat the game on my first save and more importantly there was not a single point in those 8 hours where I was bored or disinterested in playing further. However I'm sure someone who isn't as experienced with the game mechanics of this genre and/or are more scared of the games environment could take significantly longer to beat the game. The 40 day timer can seem a bit scary at first but in reality the game is giving you more than enough time to complete it, especially with the time stalling mechanics. Either way there is game mode that disable the timer completely. I'd say roughly 85% of this game is spent diving, which is mostly just puzzle solving, exploring, and collecting resources. The other 15% is spent managing both your settlement/town members and your resources. The diving part of the game never got boring, early on exploration was enjoyable and later on planning runs with specific objectives in mind was just as good. On the other hand the town management part was far too trivial. Early on it all felt a bit overwhelming with how much stuff there was to do and keep track of. However by the mid game you realize pretty much every challenge is dealt with in the same way and the resource management aspect of the game is nonexistent with the abundance of resources your diver is bringing back each run. By the end of the game I was just going through the motions as fast as possible so I could get back to the interesting part of the game. The only engaging thing left to do at that point was to decide what gear I needed to and could craft for my next dive. Overall I'd say the game is a solid 8 or 9 out of 10. It definitely warrants a buy if you're a fan of the genre or just think that it looks interesting.