Underplayed Gems

Engine Room (2024)

Engine Room cover
Developer
Nial Petzold
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Indie, Strategy
Rating
4.0 of 5, 5 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 56 minutes
Where to get it
Steam
The 3D catalog: game boxes on wooden shelves, with the cat sitting at the counter next to its greeting.

The catalog in 3D

The same catalog has a room you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real games from it when you tell them what you feel like playing. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this game is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

You balance ship systems and fight in first person, constantly deciding whether to retreat for upgrades or push deeper into dangerous space under mounting pressure.

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What players say

Players enjoy the tense, adrenaline-filled gameplay of managing a ship from inside the engine room, finding it both simple and deceptively stressful. However, some run into performance issues and a brutal difficulty spike in the second star system, while others hope for more content to flesh out the concept.

Screenshots

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This page is from Underplayed Gems, a catalog of older and overlooked games. Not quite it? You can browse by platform and genre, or take this one into the 3D catalog and ask the Catbot for something closer.