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Deep the Game

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2020

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Quick resume

Welcome to the Deep: Pixelart platformer indie game located deep inside caves. You are a cave explorer who accidentally falls in a pit which leads to a big cave system. After some exploration, you find remains of an old civilization that used to live there and decide to explore it a little further.

Global score

78/100

Genres

Action, Adventure, Free To Play, Indie

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    Pros

    • Free to play
    • Challenging platforming
    • Character customization
    • Level editor
    • Engaging soundtrack

    Cons

    • Unresponsive and slippery controls
    • Frustrating difficulty spikes
    • Poor enemy design (especially bats)
    • Lack of checkpoints and restart options
    • Limited multiplayer and social features

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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      "Players tend to engage in multiple sessions to complete the game and achievements, though the game is relatively short."

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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    • Expectation

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Fellowship

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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    • Idle

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    • Intimacy

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    • Leadership

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Relaxation, Survival, Violence, Fellowship. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Expression. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Exploration.

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    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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