The first thing that hits you is the ship. Not the pirate ship, the one you're on. Wood grain textures that look like they were smeared on with a thumb, rigging that clips through the mast if you turn the camera wrong. And then the horizon goes dark with sails and the father character starts panicking about hiding his daughters. Elisabeth and Sophie. Two names, two bodies, and the game wastes no time making it clear what the pirates want with them.

There's a moment after the boarding where you can choose to hide in a barrel or under some canvas. I picked the barrel. The camera jams itself inside with you, all splinters and shadow, and you hear the pirates stomping around above deck. The sound design is actually decent there, boots on wood, a cutlass dragging. Then a pirate finds Sophie and the animation that follows is... functional. Stiff. Like two mannequins being pressed together by someone who read about sex in a medical textbook but never tried it. The moaning loops after about four seconds and never changes pitch.

But here's the thing. The game has this weird, grimy charm. The historical setting is just window dressing, sure, but the lighting during the sunset raid is almost pretty. Orange and purple smeared across the water like a bruise. And the modding community has already started poking at it. Someone on a forum I lurk on replaced all the pirate models with deep ones from some Lovecraft asset pack. Tentacles clipping through the deck, the father's dialogue unchanged. It's stupid and broken and I laughed.

Replayability is thin. You can hide one daughter, both, or neither, and the scenes shuffle around a bit. After three runs you've seen everything. But I keep going back to that barrel moment. The cramped camera, the waiting. It's the only time the game feels like it understands dread instead of just horny.