The Captain is Dead isn't for the faint of heart. Visually and audibly in-your-face, never short of another problem to throw your way, and just oh so eager to stress you out, it's the explosive climax of your favourite sci-fi fiction on repeat, forever, never letting up for so much as a split second.
It's a digital adaptation of a popular board game with a simple concept: the big boss has croaked, and it's only a matter of time before hostile aliens invade your starship, kill the crew, and blow everything up. In the midst of this catastrophic disaster, a hero must emerge – and quickly. That's where you come in.
Straight off the bat, you're faced with countless potential moves to make and over a dozen on-screen icons to take in, each representing a different function of the ship, like the comms system, security station, shields, and cargo pod. Staying on top of what everything does and the resources required to maintain the ship's systems is tricky enough, though random anomalies can force you to play in wildly different ways to perform the simplest of actions. It's just roadblock, after roadblock, after roadblock.
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