Navigating around the menus are, again, made even more challenging by the controls. Not only do they not really make any sense, but they don’t gel with one another for a smooth experience. And this isn’t helped by its dull menus and cluttered UI. Stranded Deep treats it as a laborious test in convoluted repetition. One that can be performed with muscle memory alone. And because inventory management is pretty much all you do in Stranded Deep, it ruins the game.Ī good inventory management system should be seamless and simple. But in Stranded Deep, it’s downright infuriating thanks to the controls. With that will always come a reasonable amount of resource and inventory management. And the resource management, well…Īs a survival game, scavenging resources to fashion objects and build shelters is to be expected. Items are boring with often a single animation used ad infinitum. Frustrating and unintuitive, Stranded Deep‘s gameplay lacks any kind of polish or fluidity. Clunky, boring and repetitive with unintuitive controlsĪs I said, the premise of Stranded Deep is one that grabs your attention. There’s a day/night cycle and a dynamic weather system, too, but that’s the disappointing extent of Stranded Deep‘s variation. All you need to do is create a new save file. The map is different for every playthrough and creating a new map is simple thanks to procedural generation. The Stranded Deep map of islands, ships and ocean is where you’ll be spending all your time. Stranded Deep review: Gameplay The player starts the game in a life raft. Disappointingly, it’s boring, repetitive, clunky and so very ugly. With next to no story, Stranded Deep lives and dies on its survival mechanics and the quality of its gameplay. From here, you must gather resources, build a shelter, and protect yourself from all the hazards of being stranded alone in the middle of the ocean. You play as the survivor of a plane crash who finds themself stranded on a desert island. For those that don’t know, Stranded Deep is Cast Away meets Minecraft.
#IS STRANDED DEEP MULTIPLAYER PLUS#
Of the three free PlayStation Plus games this month, Stranded Deep seemed the most interesting.
But now it’s free, we’re asking: Is Stranded Deep good and is it worth it? Because of this, few people have played Stranded Deep before.
#IS STRANDED DEEP MULTIPLAYER PS4#
Released for the PS4 and Xbox One in April 2020 by the relatively unknown Beam Team Games, Stranded Deep arrived on PS Plus with very little hype but an engaging premise. Stranded Deep is one of May’s free PlayStation Plus games. This Stranded Deep review may contain very minor spoilers.