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Call of the Sea, a cozy Lovecraft game? (feddit.org)

submitted 1 day ago by Wrufieotnak@feddit.org to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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This is a story focused puzzle game where you are on a tropical island in 1934, investigating the disappearance of your husband and his expedition on this exact island.

The puzzles are not Baba is You level, but also not too easy so that you just run through.

The main focus is the story and reaching new areasby solving the puzzles. There is a linear progression from level to level, but each section is a nice looking area you can walk around in.

There is no action though, which gave my experience with it a nice, cozy atmosphere that I didn't expect from a Lovecraft inspired work. With the direction the story was going it makes sense in the end, but still, unexpected to me.

I had a fun time with it and want to see more Cosmic Cozy now! Anybody has some recommendation in that regard?

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[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 2 points 4 hours ago

I enjoyed the art and story, but somehow I got tired of the micro animations taking 1-2s of gameplay away evey time you wanted to interact with anything. Nice puzzles though, I thought the stars thing near the end was smart!

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

When I read the blurb for the game, I didn't think they meant actual Lovecraft, so I was kinda surprised when Dagon and the Marshes of Innsmouth got explicitly referenced. There were a couple parts where I was expecting to get attacked by abominations, so I was quite relieved when nothing of the sort happened. All in all, I have to say that I quite enjoyed it. And it's not a long game at all, really, so you can probably power through it in a day.

[–] Rose@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The new game of this series is on Game Pass and seems to run great even on very old hardware. Not exactly for patient gamers in the strictest sense, but if you care about deep discounts and low-demanding games, this might be just it.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

Ooh nice, didn't know that they made a sequel. Thanks!

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice, have it on Epic. Gonna try it.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Have fun, looking forward to your opinion about it in the Kulturfreitag ;)

[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I can't play it. Something with the way the camera works. I've got Long Covid and some games are too exhausting for me.

Strangely enough Kingdom Come Deliverance was a breeze. I'll never understand this sickness. I would have guessed it's the other way around.

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 2 points 17 hours ago

Ah that's unfortunate. I forgot about it, but you are right, the motion blur is very strong here and there are often forced camera movements.

[–] Kirk@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Looks like it's $5 on Steam today I'll check it out thanks for the recommendation https://store.steampowered.com/app/1042490/Call_of_the_Sea/

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Oh, nice happy little accident, have fun!