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Open Sorcery: Sea++

by Abigail Corfman profile

Episode 2 of Open Sorcery
2021
Fantasy
Twine

(based on 3 ratings)
1 review4 members have played this game. It's on 22 wishlists.

About the Story

There is an ocean beneath our world.

You can sail it on currents of emotion. Worlds hang in it like bubbles--ephemeral as thought or indelible as memory.

You wake up at the bottom of this ocean.

Your shattered memories dot the sand around you.

Reclaim and compile your magic or drown in a sea of dreams.

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Open Sorcery: Sea++ is a text-based adventure-puzzle game about technology and magic.

Reminiscent of the old Zork and Wishbringer series (but with a more intuitive UI) it plays like an adventure game with a touch of resource management. Collect items and spells and use them cleverly to accrue power.

Awards

Nominee, Best Implementation - 2021 XYZZY Awards

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
Enchantment under the sea, May 17, 2026
Related reviews: Open Sorcery series

A huge, puzzle-filled adventure through multiple domains of the "deep web" - a metaphysical aquatic/internet/innerspace ocean, as you try to recover your memories and piece together your identity, while looking for a way home. This is a stand-alone game set in the same world as Open Sorcery, but no knowledge of previous games is required.

This time you play an actual "open sorcerer" rather than an elemental spirit, so as well as the traditional "matter/motive" element-based puzzles there are spell-casting and inventory puzzles, word-search puzzles, rearranging blocks of text into the right order, changing descriptions to make them consistent with each other, navigating complex dialogue trees, card games, alchemical crafting, and so much more, with almost every puzzle having multiple possible solutions.

A basic completion run takes over 15 hours, and that's without trying to get the numerous achievements, and skipping a ton of optional content. This is combined with a great story and great writing, veering between very funny, thrilling, and deeply sad with aplomb. It also looks and sounds great, with music, sound effects, occasional graphics, and beautiful typography throughout. A commercial game well worth the money, though if you just want to try it out, A Murder in Fairyland is a small-ish chunk from the middle of the game released for free.

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80% Relatable
Two Queers Play Open Sorcery: Sea++
It's been a while since we featured a Twine game on our channel, so we thought it'd be great to catch up with the newest entry in our favorite magitech adventure game series, Open Sorcery! Please enjoy as we trawl through the seas, both literal and metaphorical, in Open Sorcery: Sea++!
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Save or Quit
'...opened up a whole genre of games that I want to explore"
Open Sorcery: Sea++ is an expansive text-based adventure game that demands and rewards attention, logic, and thoroughness. It’s one of the very few games paradigm-shifting games that changed the way I look at the genre.
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For your consideration: XYZZY-eligible Best Overall Puzzles of 2021 by MathBrush
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