Lost Sea – Nintendo Switch

Over the past week, I’ve been putting significant time into Lost Sea, a game originally released a while ago (we played on PS4) but just coming to Switch on May 31st. Lost Sea is a puzzle, exploration, RPG experience that sees you playing as a surviving castaway moving from island to island, attempting to escape the Bermuda Triangle. With colourful graphics and lots to do, Lost Sea will keep you busy for hours upon hours, even when the moments become a bit repetitive. Let’s dive in and look at Lost Sea!

When you first start out in Lost Sea, you’ll only have simple attacks and options at your finger tips. As your character only poses a few skills himself, you will need to upgrade your abilities, and earn the ability to take other castaways – up to 4 – with you when exploring islands. You’ll need friends who have carpentry skills for building bridges, friends with lock picking skills, and even friends with mini skills. Early on, choosing which friends you take along – after finding them in the jungle of course – will be a tough task, as you will have to do some backtracking to obtain all the islands goodies since your one castaway friend won’t be able to perform all the tasks you need.

Once you’ve unlocked all 4 friends slots, however, things get much easier as it is pretty easy to find friends that cover almost every single skill imaginable. At times like these, Lost Sea falters a bit. While pacing remains high, the risk-reward decisions of who you bring with you are completely gone. While the game becomes easier, I’m not sure it becomes more fun.

Still, other things are available that keep you moving forward. Each world is made up of multiple islands, and you will be able to travel to these islands by finding hidden stones on the various islands. The stones will have specific numbers on them, which will be the exact number of islands you can move when on the world map. On the first map, for example, you will find a 4 stone, which means that when you return to your ship to set sail, you will move 4 island further along, to island 5.

Depending on which stone you find – some island have multiple – you’ll be able to move that exact number of spaces. Once you complete the boss island, a while new world will open up with new environments, new enemies, and new treasure to find, and abilities to unlock.

The game is full of charm, but does suffer from some repetition after a few hours of playing. That being said, I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time with Lost Sea on Nintendo Switch, even more than I did on the PS4. I think the Switch lends itself much better to this type of experience.

We give Lost Sea on Nintendo Switch a 7.5/10!