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Have You Played... The Ship?

Share your stories, please!

Have You Played? is an endless stream of game recommendations. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time.

If so, please tell me stories from it. I have played The Ship - in both its original mod and standalone forms - but never at the right times. I was enticed into the open-ship murder simulator by pals' tales of stalking prey from deck to deck, of bluffs and double-bluffs and needing to wee at the most inopportune moment. I missed the glory days and mostly stumbled around ineptly dying. But if you have stories, do share, won't you?

The Ship, for those who haven't played it, is a multiplayer first-person social FPS set about a 1930s cruise ship. Everyone is given a target to kill, and must sneakily take them out with whatever weapons they can find without anyone else noticing - and without being killed, because they're also someone else's target. Complicating matters are a variety of personal needs you must attend to - eating, sleeping, washing, being entertained, wazzing, and so on - so you can't simply find a hammer then hunker down in a corner. And you might be watching for someone stalking you with a frying pan, but are you watching out for lifeboats falling from above?

All of this can lead to absurd situations and stories, which I've enjoyed very much over the years - and sadly have few of my own to share. So please, have you played The Ship? Tell me some stories, won't you?

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Alice O'Connor

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Alice has been playing video games since SkiFree and writing about them since 2009, with nine years at RPS. She enjoys immersive sims, roguelikelikes, chunky revolvers, weird little spooky indies, mods, walking simulators, and finding joy in details. Alice lives, swims, and cycles in Scotland.

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