Premature Evaluation is the weekly column in which Steve Hogarty explores the wilds of early access. This week Steve deals out sea justice in UBOAT.
Developer: Deep Water Studio
Publisher: PlayWay S.A.
Release: Out now (early access)
On: Windows
From: Steam
For: 23.79, $30, 25
You know you re in for some serious submarine business when there s an option to toggle the curvature of the earth on and off. I m still not entirely sure what a flat earth would mean for a submarine, in any practical sense. Perhaps if the submarine wandered too close to the edge of the world it would spill over the precipice of a cosmic waterfall and tumble through the infinite void forever?
Maybe with round earth switched on, the torpedoes would neglect to follow the imperceptible curvature of the ocean s surface, instead tracing a tangential path away from the sub and out of the water, rising up into the sky and out of the atmosphere, and travelling for billions of lightyears before eventually landing in an alien dignitary s hat during a critical moment in her speech to alien congress on the planet Korblax-388, earning her the nickname Torpedo Idiot of Korblax and destroying her nascent political career.