Maybe that marketing blurb is doing exactly what it is supposed to do. Assuming I’m not just an extremely odd outlier, perhaps I’m not giving Killerfish enough credit here. It had the obligatory brick-thick manual with all kinds of background information that went far above and beyond what you needed to actually play the game. If I had to guess I’d say that overlap would be very small, but it can’t be that small because, well, I’ve played Red Storm Rising. On another, it’s totally meaningless to anyone who didn’t play Red Storm Rising, and so Killerfish are very deliberately targeting the overlap between “people who have played a submarine simulator that was released in 1988” and “people who are browsing Steam in 2018”. Cold Waters is essentially a modern remake of Red Storm Rising with some added 3D bits that leverage the engine used by their previous game, Atlantic Fleet. ![]() Now, on one level that sentence certainly does its job since it is a pitch-perfect description of the game to those who know what it’s actually talking about. ![]() Spiritual Successor to the Microprose Classic “Red Storm Rising”. In the little headline box underneath the game logo on its Steam page, right where most other games would put a quick, attention-grabbing summary of what their game is about and why you should read further, developers Killerfish have instead written this, and only this: Cold Waters is a game that certainly seems to know its audience.
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