“Have you heard the quote, ‘We know more about deep space than we do about the ocean’?” writes developer Paloma Dawkins on Oceanarium’s itch.io web page. “This is a game inspired by that. It doesn’t seem fair if you ask me, the ocean is full of undiscovered aliens.”
They’re about to get found, although, since now you can dive into Oceanarium without cost. There are even a handful within the game’s teaser trailer:
“Have you seen the Gulper eel?” continues Dawkins. “Seriously, Google it.”
I Googled it, and all of a sudden I agree: the ocean is completely filled with undiscovered aliens. Incidentally, I don’t advocate following swimsuit when you’re in any respect weirded out by the deep sea and its inhabitants.
Whether or not Oceanarium’s creatures are kind of alien than the true life ones is as much as you. They are definitely extra brightly colored and extra liable to spouting poetry, which could take the sting off. On the opposite hand, they embody approximations of hermit crabs residing inside distorted skulls, clusters of what appears like eyes perched on stems, and a many-tentacled mouth that strikes in ways in which unsettle me on a basic stage.
On the different different hand, who’s to say there aren’t actual ocean creatures like that?
Dawkins has additionally labored on extra land-based worlds, like Gardenarium and Museum Of Symmetry (which can be free, however solely playable when you’ve acquired a VR headset), proving that the strange are by no means simply restricted to underwater.
Oceanarium was initially created for the V&A museum exhibition Videogames: Design/Play/Disrupt, however you’ll be able to obtain it for pay what you need with no minimal on itch.io.
