The Captain

The Captain is the kind of game that usually lives or dies by its writing and choices, and that makes it more about mood and decisions than action. By our assessment, it can work for players who like branching story games with a slower pace and a lot of reading. Its strength is the premise-driven, choice-heavy shape such games can give a player; its weakness is that this style depends entirely on how much the story and consequences hold together. In practice, these games tend to ask for attention to dialogue and a willingness to sit with uncertainty between decisions. It sits closer to narrative indie work than to anything fast or combat-led, and it is not trying to be a reflex game.