Game Downloads

The setting is an underwater city that’s been in disuse for hundreds(?) of years. You’re effectively alone as you explore the place, solve puzzles, & collect objects to allow you to escape the city.

The scenes & the background music were nice & peaceful — sort of moss-covered ancient Greek art with an aquatic twist. There is a story, & it’s mostly non-confrontational, which fits with the peaceful scenes & music. I liked the voice acting.

Find-the-things-in-the-scene puzzles are a staple in the game, but you get variations, including some with levers or dials you must operate. The puzzles mostly fit into the fiction — a big bonus in my opinion. (For comparison, I felt that “Mortimer Becket & the Secrets of Spooky Manor” did not have a story & was just a bunch of irritating find-the-object scenes strung together.)

I got about 8 hours of play time out of it & might play through once more. I had to skip one puzzle, had to find a hint online for one other.

It ends on a cliff-hanger, & I’m looking forward to the next volume in the series.

A comparison to another totally different game: If you’ve played Biosphere (which you probably haven’t if you like this type of game, & vice versa), this is like Rapture translated to a not-so-dystopic setting (a drastic translation), shortened & simplified to fit into this type of game & a different audience. No, there’s no Adam.
Rating: 3 / 5

Perhaps this game is a sleeper:I happened on it quite by accident. When I saw how beautiful and intriguing the game was by playing a trial version, I hopped over to Amazon to download it. This game is not for kids. It’s for people who love polished art, a thrilling story line and sonorous, awesome sound. It is for people with a heightened sense of beauty who can drink in and marvel at the Mona Lisa and Michelangelo’s David and Van Gogh’s self portrait (you’ll meet them all and many more great works of art in the Art Vault, one of three complexes you’ll visit). This is a feast for the eyes to be enjoyed, to be savored. You can smell the roses.

The game starts with a girl who has been sleeping a hundred years and who suddenly wakes up, not knowing who she is or where she is. She has been entombed in a crypt but why? How? Where? Three skeletons dressed in royal garb lie nearby.

That plot may sound far from original but there are many twists and turns and surprises in this game and it is not like any other, it is unique. The girl, aroused from her long sleep, hears the voice of a man called Jacob, a voice eerily in the background. Jacob tells the girl her name is Anna and he will help her but she must trust him. However Jacob sounds cryptic. Another voice is that of a little girl who wants you to collect ten purple orbs for her. The little girl and Jacob seem to be antagonists.

Anna soon discovers she is in a vast metropolis under the sea called the Ark of Humanity. The Ark contains three Vaults: The Vault of Art, the Vault of Science and the Vault of War, all rendered in glorious atmospheric color. There are mysteries within mysteries like Russian dolls nested one inside the other. The ocean holds terrible secrets and an evil sorceress rules the briny kingdom. The ending has a dark twist. There are many interesting puzzles to solve along the way, some hard, some quite easy. Of course, hidden objects, beautifully incorporated into the scene, must be discovered.

The ending implies there is going to be a sequel.”Empress of the Deep” is a hard act to follow but I imagine the developers will succeed in producing another beauty of a game! Highly recommended for the connoisseur.

Rating: 5 / 5