Game Review - Call of the Sea

Game Review: Call of the Sea by Out of the Blue and published by Raw Fury
Score: +3/-1

We got Call of the sea free from the Epic Games Store in the week of 2023-Mar-9-Mar-16. A VR version of the game is in the works for release next year.

Call of the Sea is an otherworldly tale of mystery and love set in the 1930s South Pacific. Explore a lush island paradise, solve puzzles and unlock secrets in the hunt for your husband’s missing expedition.

Call of the Sea is a game where you solve puzzles to progress. The story is Cthulhu mythos without the horror, plus there's a clever touch of mystery.

• Overall gameplay and production is solid.
• +1 Good story revealed at a good pace.
• -0 Reasonable but terribly depressing endings.
• +1 Good art work and voice acting, although subtitles often did not match the English voiceover
• We did experience one game-stopping bug toward the end when a crucial clue was not unlocked in the journal, but it doesn't happen to everyone and we could still progress by looking up the puzzle solution from an online walkthrough.
• +1 As a puzzle game the puzzles were quite good.
• Very intuitive, although this might make it seem "too obvious".
• Not outlandish compared to the setting/lore.
• Often, to provide an interesting challenge, puzzle games will involve outlandish contraptions completely implausible to the setting. None of that here.
• -1 You are forced to watch the credits to get to the endings.
• Yes, credits are important to the people credited but honestly this just irritates players. Even movies have mostly stopped trying to get people to sit through credits by hiding scenes somewhere in them.