Gaming🎮 Thalassa: Edge of The Abyss review: Joining the dots to pull yourself out of the depths

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I’m looking for something. I don’t know what it is, but I need to find it, and my map swears blind it’s here. I’ve done more laps of a purposefully bare room than I can count, desperately scouring every nook and cranny, just in case it’s hidden down the side of the fireplace, or inside an antique globe. It’s not. Suddenly, I become acutely aware of just how long I’ve spent not watching my back, and snap my eyes back towards the door I came in through.

It sits wide open, and beyond it lies the ocean that’s filled up the submerged rooms of the sunken craft I’ve been prowling the bowels of. There was never going to anyone watching me, but for a moment, I felt totally sure there was. The thing I’m looking for is on the balcony above me. I won’t find it for a little while yet.

It took me a little bit of time to get to the point where I felt like I was clicking with Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss, the latest game from Norwegian indie studio Sarepta Studio. But once I did, the game really dug its hooks in. Encased in the kind of early-20th century diving suit nightmares are made of, the game sends you to explore the wrecked remains of the S.S. Thalassa, which sank to the depths under mysterious circumstances not long after the protagonist and the person overseeing this latest dive took shore leave to following a fatal accident that claimed the life of one of their crewmates.

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