The Ship

playing it with some mates with voice chat is hilarious. especially if you keep identities secret!

how do so many people get the ship?, usually when there are a bunch of givaways on the same game, there is some promotion were they get the game 4 free.

Yeah the game was based around those old "murder mystery" parties/board games where one player had to try and "tag" or "murder" another player. I often call the gameplay "Paranoia" as that's what the general gameplay creates. Not being able to trust anyone and trying to figure out who's trying to get whom.

It seems to transfer to PC not too badly using "The Sims"-esce player management to force players to go out and preform tasks that might put you in danger. I heard The Ship fell out of popularity when they released a patch that made it much easier to maintain your character's stats and therefore made the gameplay a lot slower when it came to killing. The single-player is deemed as a lack-luster experience as it's mostly just a glorified tutorial, however the game was always built around the multiplayer experience so that's to be expected.

The genre hasn't seem much love from any other developer and the only game that seems to take inspiration from the whole "Paranoia" thing was the Assassin Creed multiplayer.

Im just entering for the ship giveaways, hopefully I will get one later :)
I will be courius for the game.

I have been tempted to enter some of the giveaways, maybe even buy it outright (especially when it was on sale) but I've always wondered how vibrant the multiplayer community was for such an old game.

Can you give me an idea about that?

If you like The Ship, take a look at Bloody Good Time, which is a similar game by the same developer ;)

I really enjoyed it. Played the SP and MP when I first bought it like crazy. But MP is basically dead... so if I ever go back to it, I play vs bots.

Haven't tried it yet, still trying to win a copy :)

the ship is really fun ame as you said the single is ok very short and easy but multi is awesome especially with friends and trying hunting them down

I got it during the Christmas event and it was awesome. Unafortunatelly, you can't find servers with people in it.

I enjoyed it after i figured it out a bit.

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Won it. But don't have time for it to play.. but will try it.

I managed to pick up a copy around the bundle time. I was jubious about it at first because of the slating it gets on a regular basis. However, I was pleasantly surprised. Absolutely fantastic with a bunch of friends on teamspeak. Brilliant fun if you keep your identity a secret :)

Still a couple of full multiplayer servers up and running so always easy to find a game if you're short of friends.

I haven't tried the single player yet, so can't comment on that.

I've been entering about 15k ship giveaways but never won one. If I ever do I'll definitely give it a try, altho it doesn't interest me enough for me to actually buy it.