Burly Men at Sea
Main game
2.71 average rating based on 141 ratings
- Developers
- Brain&Brain
- Publishers
- Brain&Brain, Plug In Digital
- Platforms
- Android, Mac, Nintendo Switch, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, iOS
- Genres
- Adventure, Indie, Puzzle, Role-playing (RPG)
- Themes
- Fantasy
- Steam
- View on Steam
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PROS
- Uh, it's kinda cute in a minimalist, hipster-y sorta way, I guess
- You might like the a capella-style sound effects and music
- It's extremely short, so didn't waste much of my time
CONS
- Its core mechanic is moving the camera left and right
- Plot (if you can even call it that) is just a string of random events
- Absolutely devoid of anything even remotely interesting to do
Charming Little Text Adventure
There is only about 2 hours worth of game and 15 minutes of story repeated over that time.
It is in an interesting but spartan story and the music is nice and the sound effects being all human voiced is great!
You pick paths and explore every divergence but it is like a gussied up twine game. If that sounds like something interesting it will be. If no, it will not.
These seamen lack the spunk necessary to keep your attention
Incredibly attractive with clean shapes, smooth gradients and tidy outline work, Burly Men at Sea doesn't impress with a narrative that's necessary for a (extremely) short adventure game.
We’re Just Burly Men
Choose your own adventure at sea. Lots of different endings. Not a lot of excitement. Simple, clean art style with nice enough music, but I didn’t really vibe with the game. It’s short though so I did explore every ending.
giopep's review of Burly Men at Sea
Una cosetta semplice, deliziosa, breve ma con tutto sommato un bel po' di cose da scoprire giocando e rigiocando.
Did not grab me
Clean, minimal visual design with an ultra-minimal UI combined with a threadbare plot made me leave this virtual toy/story-maker rather more quickly than I anticipated. It did not manage to entice me enough to try other options and additional play-throughs.
If you like minimalism and ethereal atmosphere, this might better fit you.
Got 1 ending into this to know the game is simply not for me, or at the very least better for a handheld setting if I'm ever going to give it a fair shake.
I'm so stuck in this game. There are alternate paths left for me to explore, but I can't figure out how to take them.
