“Aequor” Game Recommendation — deep sea misadventure

Do you enjoy water? 

No, I don’t mean a glass of water. I ain’t talking about a pool either. What do you think of the ocean? Bit of a scary place, if you ask me. Dark, vast, and full of weird creatures, many of which we may not even know about yet.

If you are considering the bottom of the ocean for an upcoming tourist visit, or get profoundly enthralled by the horror of inescapable situations, you might enjoy Aequor and its deep-sea romp through dark, perilous caverns.

Tasked with saving a deep-sea monitor that mysteriously stopped working, you’ll go as deep as anyone has ever gone. As the sea extends immensely all around you and over your head, you get to enter a weird cave and hope nothing nefarious befalls your trip.

The game, made by Plazmin, is a short adventure more than happy to let you drown in your own anxiety. The amount of thrill and trepidation that Aequor manages to squeeze out of the experience is really commendable.

It follows the known wisdom of less being more, and enjoys leaving you traversing terrain while processing the gravity of what quickly becomes a pretty desperate escape attempt.

That’s not to say that there aren’t any perils in Aequor. It’s just that the better part of the struggle will be managing to keep calm and get a hold of the predicament, a thing that I found myself failing to do in a couple of points.

The caverns are labyrinthine, and maps can be confusing. All this, combined with darkness and the floating perspective of the camera, ends up creating a great recipe for panic and second-guessing.

It rings true to the terrible fact that the easiest way to end up dead is by struggling without thinking and wasting your air and energy.

After all, if you can’t control yourself, how will you handle the pressure?

You can download Aequor for free on its Itch.io page here.

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Author: Walker M

Aspiring game developer and hobbyist writer. Perpetually doing too much. Chronically burnt out.

Argentinian. Passionate. Unbearable?

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