Diluvion is inspired by Julius Verne's prose, a three-dimensional game about exploring the depths of the sea, featuring RPG elements and incredible underwater fighting. As the captain of your own ship, you must increase your crew and manage it, while seeking the secrets of the past. Solid indie title and worth checking.

After an ice age that forced humanity to the depths of the oceans, you take the role of a submarine captain building your crew and unlocking secrets of the past. PROS + Good looking graphics + Strong musical score + Interesting idea with a lot of potential CONS - Auto-populate crew is counterintuitive - Lack of story is uninspiring - Darkness and lack of direction is frustrating - Controls do need some work I really wanted to love this game. I love FTL and I love the idea of futuristic sub games, but this game falls short on a lot of levels. Let me explain. You start the game without any sense of story except how the Earth got to where it is today. This wouldn't be an issue as you should be able to start fleshing things out as you go through conversations and missions, but there's none of that. Conversations are sparse (mostly grunts from random NPCs) and the missions are just as narrow. The missions feel like filler, but there's nothing more. You might pick up a different piece of equipment, but the rest feels empty. It gets old quick. The lack of direction makes it frustrating as well. You follow goldfish for a while, but they disappear leaving you in the darkness trying to find your way. It's so dark and bleak most of the time that you don't see much and get lost. You can get a crew, like in FTL, but you can't place them where you want. You can only hit a + and - to add/subtract crew from a location. The crew have stats (which are never explained) which affect the location you put them in so this becomes a frustrating case of trying to figure out which crew member the computer wants to work with next and trying to place them in the correct spot. This doesn't make me want to upgrade crew (which you find more often later on) because it is so frustrating. This is a serious misstep. I've only found 1 other weapon in 10 hours. The controls are a mishmash of traditional 3d fighter and sub simulation. They aren't bad once you figure out some of the unlisted commands such as hold W (the accelerate key) to unlock the camera so you can move one direction and shoot in the other, but it would be nice if the camera could be unlocked permanently freeing up a finger (and key). Lack of customization here. I tried a controller and like it, but your sub turns so slowly even with sensitivity cranked up it's almost useless. I had to develop a system of turning much like backing a car out of a driveway to turn around in time to fight an enemy. I know, this is a lot of negativity, but it's not all bad. The game looks great when you can see around your ship. All the glowing fish may be a bit much at save points, but they're pretty none-the-less. The drawn graphics in 2d mode look fun and give the game a unique flavour. The music is great, but sometimes will be low volume and sometimes high volume. Overall, it's an interesting idea that goes very little beyond that. It needs a lot of polishing and fleshing out before it will feel like a complete game. If they fix the issues (which I understand they are working on) it will easily be a buy.

The idea of the game is good, done with the soul. The game atmosphere is wonderful, nice graphics in a cartoon style, decent gameplay. First impressions are very positive...