



Call of the Sea’s puzzles are well made, though, with solutions that make sense and can be sussed out with examination of the environment and mechanisms. That’s not a bad thing, but if you’re going into Call of the Sea hoping for brain busters, you won’t really find them here. Playing Call of the Sea hot off of reviewing Myst for VR, I think I spent a lot of time overthinking solutions that turned out to be simpler than I initially presumed them to be. I always argue that puzzle game difficulty is subjective to the person playing the game, but even so, Call of the Sea seems to be on the easier side in terms of puzzles. While story heavy, Call of the Sea is all about puzzles. As Norah, you’ll have to follow in your husband’s footsteps to learn the mystery of the island, Norah’s illness, and even her past. Norah’s husband takes an expedition to the island only to disappear, which causes Norah to follow him to the island to find her own answers. It’s also killing her, and the only hope she seems to have is on a tropical island full of ruins and mysteries.
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Norah has an unnamed disease which causes her skin to break out into strange spots. The plot starts off enigmatic and intriguing. It features a set of puzzles that seemed like they were going to take some real brain power to solve, but as it turns out I was overthinking almost every single one.Ĭall of the Sea is a first person adventure puzzle game where you play as Norah, a woman searching for her husband on a strange island that has risen from the ocean. Call of the Sea is full of great “eureka!” moments. Some people can get through a puzzle game in half the time it might take me, for instance, because certain puzzles just click for certain people. I’m usually the first to say that puzzle games are completely dependent on the person playing them.
