Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea cover art

Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea

Tests very little mechanically - a dark authored story carried by light RPG battles.

Here's the argument for where this game sits - disagree freely.
Match your experience?
EXECUTION1 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE1 /10OPTIMIZATION3 /10

the cheat-test profile

The four axes - the argument

Each axis is rated on its own - how far one cheat would trivialize the game here. They don't trade off; low on all four means the game is an experience, not a contest.

  1. Execution

    cheat: Aimbot - perfect inputs

    1/10

    Top-down walking and menu battles need no dexterity

  2. Reads

    cheat: Out-predict an adaptive opponent

    0/10

    Story characters never adapt to the player

  3. Variance

    cheat: See what's hidden / map the RNG

    1/10

    Plot twists are authored, not random

  4. Optimization

    cheat: A perfect solver / coach

    3/10

    Simple RPG battles and light puzzles barely resist

How to read this

Each axis is named by the cheat that would break the game along it. Execution is the hands. Reads is out-thinking an adaptive opponent. Variance is hidden information & RNG. Optimization is the solvable systems layer. A game's region is the top one or two axes.

These four aren't one rating split four ways - they're independent 0-10 questions. A 9 on one axis takes nothing from the others, and a game low on all four isn't missing data: it's telling you there's no skill here to cheat.

The basis is how the majority actually plays this game - not a niche mode or a personal run. For a game with very different modes (a story campaign versus ranked multiplayer), that's the version most people mean.

Compare with

Similar games

see all →

Ranked by shared genre first, then by how closely the cheat-test profile matches - a cross-genre tag means a pick matched on skill profile alone.

Call of Cthulhu cover art

Call of Cthulhu

Light / Casual · horror investigation

E
R
V
O
Call of Cthulhu
LEGO The Hobbit cover art

LEGO The Hobbit

Practiced Mastery · family action adventure

E
R
V
O
LEGO The Hobbit
Doki Doki Literature Club! cover art

Doki Doki Literature Club!

Light / Casual · horror visual novel

E
R
V
O
Doki Doki Literature Club!
Costume Quest cover art

Costume Quest

Practiced Mastery · kids turn-based RPG

E
R
V
O
Costume Quest
Finding Paradise cover art

Finding Paradise

Light / Casual · narrative RPG

E
R
V
O
Finding Paradise
Sky: Children of the Light cover art

Sky: Children of the Light

Light / Casual · social adventure

E
R
V
O
Sky: Children of the Light

Game details

Released
2013
Developer
Deep-Sea Prisoner
Platforms
PC
Modes
Single player
IGDB users
80/100
Role-playing (RPG)AdventureIndieFantasyHorror