Sea Salt

I think I picked up Sea Salt because of its interesting visuals and the unique concept of controlling a swarm of creatures, instead of just a few of them.
However, interesting concepts do not always translate to interesting games. You see, Sea Salt is a very simple game, with effectively two actions you can do. You can tell your swarm to go to a place, and you can tell your swarm to attack. Considering this, I'm amazed there is no mouse support, as it can be quite annoying to switch directions with how slow your cursor moves with the arrow keys. I guess you can also choose which units you summon, but that's only an action you can do every once in a while. Your swarm handles the pathing, which includes evading obvious danger, except when attacking, then they just diregard their safety to strike. There's various enemies, and numerous bossfights with different mechanics, but at the end of the day, it all comes down to positioning and choosing when to attack, because that's all you can do.

I don't have a lot more to say about this game. There might have been something here if there were more options, both in terms of controlling your army and general things to do. As it stands now, I very quickly got bored of both the simple gameplay, as well as the subpar execution. The AI was dumb enough to constantly force me to question its decisions, be it splitting up the swarm, or focusing the wrong things during attacking. The graphics were perhaps a bit too pixelated and hard on the eyes, and the music, while fitting, wasn't very enjoyable either. Overall, I can not recommend playing it.