July 28, 2023 - Day 209 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 228

Game: Call of the Sea

Platform: Steam
Release Date: Dec 9, 2020
Library Date: Mar 10, 2023
Unplayed: 140d (4m18d)
Playtime: 5h48m

Call of the Sea is a first-person 3D puzzle game, set on an island near Tahiti, in 1934.

You play as Norah Everhart, a woman trying to unlock the mystery of the disappearance of her husband on an expedition to this remote island.

I bought this game as part of an "International Women's Day" bundle, where all the games have female protagonists. Capitalism will find any excuse for a sale, but in this case, part of the money was going to charity, and I wanted more games with female protagonists, so it felt like a win/win.

This is a wonderful game. The graphics are lush and gorgeous, and the puzzles are mostly of the kind that pushed me just enough that I enjoyed them, but not so much that you need to keep a walkthrough open in a web browser. The kind that are satisfying to solve.

The kind that kept me playing non-stop until I'd completed the game. The last game that hooked me into playing through in a single session was Firewatch, which is one of my all-time favourite games, and Call of the Sea comes close.

The game opens with Norah waking up from an odd dream, in a cabin on a ship, which has just reached its destination.

As Norah looks down at her hands, they're covered in small brown blotches, and her voiceover starts talking about her illness. These blotches are symptoms of her illness, and her husband's expedition to this remote -and possibly cursed- island was an attempt to find a cure.

It's Norah's illness that is at the core of this game. While to say more would involve spoilers, I think if this were just a puzzle game, I'm not sure it would have hooked me. But Norah's story, the mystery of her illness, but a smart & capable woman who refuses to let her illness define her, and whose relationship with her husband appears to be one of equals, drew me in, and as each puzzle solution revealed a little bit more of the story, I just wanted to solve one more puzzle.

The call on Call of the Sea is:

5: Excellent* (see next toot - spoilers)

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Intenté jugar a #CalloftheSea. A mi no me va nada los puzzles pesaditos de remirar y remirar por aquí y allí. Y la mecánica del juego es esa desde el minuto cero. La historia no me engancha: una burguesa que va en busca de su marido en una isla perdida (con una maldición, claro). El marido fue allí por una cura para una enfermedad rara de ella. Le suda el papo a ella lo que le han pasado al resto de la expedición. Pegote. Es muy bonito, pero no pienso echar más de una hora en él.

ou de l'excellent #CalloftheSea qui est sûrement mon jeu "Lovecraft" préféré de tous les jeux recherchés lors de la saison 1.

Vous pouvez retrouver la critique par @Un_Rieur sur le site de The Pixel Post

https://youtu.be/oQX5oOjU60w

So, trotz cloudsave war kein Spielstand von mir vorhanden, danke für nichts. Also hab ich nochmal von vorne begonnen.
Die Rätsel sind nach wie vor sehr knackig und ich hab bloß eines bisher ohne Hilfe gelöst. Dafür mag ich die easter eggs.
#CallOfTheSea

In Call of the Sea, you play as Norah, a 1920sish woman on an expedition to Polynesia to rescue her husband, who is on a slightly earlier expedition to Polynesia to find a cure for her disease.

The gameplay consists of tracking the expedition, which seems to litter an endless supply of tents, trunks, crates, and equipment behind it, and piecing together information to overcome obstacles, activate mechanisms, etc. I appreciate that, while there were some headscratchers of the "I have no idea what is expected of me here" and "I'm pretty sure I know what to do, now how do I do it" varieties, the necessary information was always there to be found.

The story is obviously heavily influenced by the lore around Lovecraft's The Shadow over Innsmouth, although with a much more modern and nuanced take on the whole situation.

If you're looking for a chill stroll around a beautiful Pacific island, with some eldritch-flavored puzzles thrown in, Call of the Sea may be for you.

#gameing #CallOfTheSea

I wonder if video games will ever stop announcing that the end of the game is coming up

#gameing #CallOfTheSea

I wasted entirely too much time on this puzzle without realizing it was an audio puzzle that I couldn't hear

#gameing #CallOfTheSea

4 chapters of analyzing every scrap of paper I can find, and suddenly there are documents scattered everywhere that I can't even interact with‽

#gameing #CallOfTheSea

My brain really wants me to verify this, but I'm resisting

#gameing #CallOfTheSea

Does this count as finding the shotgun?

#gameing #CallOfTheSea

Maturity is the hallmark of the seasoned archaeologist

#gameing #CallOfTheSea

Gee, I sure hope there's a note to myself or an audio log around here someplace

#gameing #CallOfTheSea

Hour three of the video call

Incidentally, Call of the Sea is a first-person exploration/puzzle game where the player assumes the role of a pair of brown leather gloves with an incredibly posh accent

#gameing #CallOfTheSea

I love to start off with a nice dream sequence

#gameing #CallOfTheSea

I was looking for something engaging but chill to play, and this one was in the humble bundle for international women's day

#gameing #CallOfTheSea

Eben noch angefangen habe ich #CalloftheSea. Ebenfalls gruselig und sehr cthuloid. Die Rätsel sind an sich zwar nicht schwierig, aber für mich schon wieder zuviel. Ungewöhnlich ist auch die eher geruhsame Bewegung in der Ich-Perspektive. Bin gespannt, wie sich das entwickelt.

Anyone else tried playing #CallOfTheSea? It's free on the epic game store for now and thought I'd give it a shot. I noticed it has a weird relationship with the internet. On start up I'm forced to sign into my epic games account. If I refuse to, it doesn't work. If I sign in but them play in offline mode, it still doesn't work. If I start in online mode, start playing, then disconnect from the internet, the audio stops playing. What's going on? Seems very suspicious for a single player game. 👀👀🤔

#Privacy #Tracking #UserData #Games #LiveService

Hace como dos semanas que se me olvida poner los juegos de la #EpicStore, peeroo. Desde hoy y hasta el 16 de marzo, tenéis #CalloftheSea completamente gratis.

https://store.epicgames.com/es-ES/p/call-of-the-sea

Donnerstag ist #GeforceNow Update Tag! Was für neue #Cloudgaming Spiele sind am Start? Diese:

#HotelRenovator (Neu auf #Steam)
#ClashArtifactsofChaos (Neu auf Steam, März 9.)
#Figment2CreedValley (Neu auf Steam, März 9.)
#MonsterEnergySupercrossTheOfficialVideogame6 (Neu auf Steam, März 9.)
#BigAmbitions (Neu auf Steam, März 10.)
#CalloftheSea (Kostenlos bei #Epic Games, März 9.)
#GRIDLegends (Steam und #EA)
#ScarsAbove (Steam)

Zum Blog:

https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/03/09/geforce-now-thursday-march-9/

The Humble Heroines bundle offers eight women-led Steam games for £12.45 - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-humble-heroines-bundle-offers-eight-women-led-steam-games-for-1245 #Hellblade:Senua'sSacrifice #Syberia:TheWorldBefore #Batora:LostHaven #PraeyfortheGods #CalloftheSea #Dreamscaper #Control #Sable #PC