The Starship Damrey starts off inside a cryogenic stasis pod, after a screen warns you not to expect a tutorial to explain what you're supposed to do. The hatch won't open, and all you can see is the blanket covering your legs, a photograph of a woman pinned to the ceiling, and a screen informing you that amnesia is a common side-effect of "cold sleep". The cold, mechanical voice of the ship's computer urges you to remain calm. It's creepy and atmospheric, and in the opening half-hour The Starship Damrey conjures an enticing mystery from its setting and premise. Unfortunately, it doesn't sustain that intrigue.
The Starship Damrey is billed as survival horror, but it's neither scary nor atmospheric enough to earn that classification. It's more like a point-and-click adventure set on an abandoned spaceship, with the occasional jump-scare and plenty of backtracking through claustrophobic corridors in search of a way forward. After a clever and unexpectedly testing hacking puzzle in the cryostasis pod, you gain access to the Damrey's systems, and from then on you can explore the ship using one of its clunky little maintenance robots. As you probe deeper into its dark corridors, seemingly devoid of life, you learn more about what happened there and uncover the fate of its crew.
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