Treasure Seas Inc.

There’s a sort of cross-genre of games that I know as “arcade adventures”. Things that involve merging action gameplay with inventory, although this is quite old hat nowadays and often boiled down to buying ammo or powerups and finding keys.

Treasure Seas Inc. is an arcade adventure in that you pilot a submarine around three mazes seeking treasure chests. In your way are sub-chomping sharks, managing your air, power and pressure tolerances, and raising the cash to buy essential upgrades.

A game of Treasure Seas Inc. in action

Controls are simple, and explained at every step so you don’t forget. Pilot the ship to over the spot, drop your sub, grab the goods and shell out the gold.

The graphics are equally clean and the sound is well-presented.

Here’s a hint: The first two things you need are plating (to dive deeper) and a searchlight (realistically, it gets darker the further you go.)

There are a few irritants. The sharks are able to kill you with one bite, and lunge forward if they see you — making escape impossible. The prices generally lurk around the high end, meaning you have to take a lot of risks to find chests. Sometimes the gauges seem very obtrusive, and then there’s your character’s incessant babbling.

Despite this, I find the game strangely enjoyable: perhaps it’s the mixture of strategy (do I go for another chest while I’m down here, or surface now and go buy upgrades?) with what essentially is avoid-em-up action.

Play Treasure Seas Inc. at Armor Games

Posted in Games and Toys (,) by R Cruickshank Jul 12, 10:18 PM Tags: ,

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