About This Game

Thalassomania is a PS1-style co-op horror game for 1–4 players. You've taken a job on a fishing trawler: work the catch, keep the ship running, and bring the crew home. But somewhere out on the water, something else came aboard.

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This is a working trawler, and you're the crew. At the chart table you vote on where to fish. Once you're there, you put the net over the side, haul it back in on the winch, gut the catch and get it on ice.

Each run sends you to different fishing grounds in different weather. Between jobs you can fish off the side with a rod. Every catch goes in the Skipper's Log, and each ground has its own rare fish to find.

Meanwhile the ship needs keeping alive. Every repair is hands-on, done up close and usually in the dark.

The jobs are spread all over the ship, so getting them done means splitting up and spending more time alone than you'd like. Voice chat is proximity based and gets muffled by walls, so you'll be relying on the intercom at the helm and the CCTV console, where one of you can sit and watch the cameras around the ship. And there's one more aboard than there should be. You'll usually hear it before you see it. When it comes for you, your best bet is getting into a locker or pulling a bunk curtain shut.

When something goes wrong below the waterline, one of you puts on the old brass diving suit and goes over the side while the rest of the crew pump your air.

About the demo

The demo takes about 30 minutes and is built to end before you reach home. However well your crew does, the voyage always ends the same way: the thing in the storm catches up with you. That's on purpose. Getting the trawler all the way home is saved for the full game.

Also, as a little easter egg, you can press [H] to emote, and you can find and smoke cigarettes...

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Since the graphics are retro, the extent in which they are graphic is limited, the creature that hunts you in this horror title will leave behind blood splatters and bodies will ragdoll, future plans for maybe adding more gore to certain rooms like a torture room but again the graphics will be retro so not overly gorey