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The Ship: Murder Party

PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2006

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Quick resume

The Ship is a murder mystery multiplayer.

Global score

86/100

Genres

Action, Indie, Role-playing (RPG), Shooter

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    Pros

    • Unique multiplayer stealth murder gameplay
    • Dynamic weapon economy and needs system
    • Fun and hilarious with friends
    • Large varied maps with secrets
    • Good value with multiple copies included

    Cons

    • Dead official servers, hard to find multiplayer
    • Singleplayer is short and less engaging
    • Some bugs and clunky ui
    • Requires friends for best experience
    • Server browser issues

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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      "Requires skillful planning, stealth, and execution with feedback through rankings and mission outcomes."

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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      "Players report addictive gameplay and long play sessions especially with friends, though single player can be less engaging."

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    • Cooperation

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      "Primarily competitive but supports playing with friends cooperatively in local and online multiplayer."

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    • Creativity

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      "Players can customize characters extensively and experiment with combining weapons and abilities in creative ways."

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    • Domination

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      "Players exert control over others by setting traps to dominate the map and hinder opponents."

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      "Players exert control by hunting and killing others, sometimes with taunts or traps, showing dominance over opponents."

    • Escapism

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      "Players enjoy immersion in a fictional murder mystery world, providing distraction and nostalgic escape."

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily for fun and social interaction, with no indication of obligation or external pressure."

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    • Experimenting

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      "Encourages trying new weapons, characters, and item combinations to discover effective strategies."

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    • Exploration

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      "Large, varied maps with different environments and some hidden elements encourage discovery."

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    • Expression

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      "Customization through camouflage and equipment allows personal expression within gameplay."

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    • Fantasy

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      "Cartoonish, humorous, and exaggerated weaponry and scenarios provide imaginative fiction experience."

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      "Stylized, cartoony setting with exaggerated weapons and scenarios creates an imaginative, fictional experience."

    • Fellowship

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      "Strong social component with playing alongside friends, forming communities, and sharing experiences."

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    • Growth

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      "Players develop skills in stealth, map knowledge, and game mechanics over time."

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    • Health

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      "Game is sedentary with no physical activity; players manage character's health but no real-world physical engagement."

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      "Gameplay is sedentary with no physical activity; players manage character needs but no real physical engagement."

    • Idle

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      "Requires focused attention and active management; not designed for idle or background play."

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    • Intimacy

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      "Some social interaction and cooperation with friends, but limited evidence of close emotional relationships."

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    • Leadership
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    • Progression

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      "Players accumulate money, skill points, weapons, and upgrades as they advance through the game."

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    • Relaxation

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      -4

      "Gameplay is tense, stressful, and challenging with constant pressure and threat."

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    • Sensation

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      "Colorful visuals, creative weapon effects, and sound design provide sensory enjoyment."

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    • Status

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      "Leaderboards and high scores provide recognition and social status among players."

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    • Thrill

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    • Value

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      "Highly praised for value, especially at low price points and sales."

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    • Violence

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    • Survival

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    Analysis

    Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Fellowship, Domination, Status. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Domination. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Relaxation.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    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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