“It’s so bad”

As of this writing, the dice seem cast for the Titan submarine, after oxygen supplies run out and a robot finds a debris field in the salvage area; although the families are not giving up hope and the coastguard has yet to declare the possible fate of the occupants.

This event dominated social media, both for the tragedy itself and for everything surrounding it; from a submarine with structural failures and lack of supervision, to known communications failures for at least 11 months. Even small details, such as the remote control used to control the submarine, become the protagonists of “memes”.

It doesn’t have to be directly Titan-related: anything submarine-related gets a lot of attention from the masses, eager to know more about this type of private project or even what one feels when entering the interior of such a submarine. . And that’s how many people found out iron lung

underwater game

iron lung, available for computers on Steam, is described as a “short horror game where you pilot a small submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon”; In other words, it doesn’t seem to have much in common with the Titan situation, but it’s one of those games that bets more on the supply side. a moving experience What a complex story.

In iron lung, the player spends most of their time inside the submarine, pressing buttons and using tools to explore the seabed in search of the unknown. Its own creators describe the gameplay as “minimalist”, in the sense that the player is neither able to see much nor do much. Instead, its creators bet on the eerie atmosphere, the claustrophobic feeling

Maybe it’s because it’s one of the newer underwater games, or because it manages to capture that feeling of being submerged, but Iron Lung sales skyrocketed since the Titan appears in the news, much to the delight, and dismay, of its creator. In his official Twitter account, David Szymanski said that “it hurts a lot” to see the sales graph, which shows few units sold in recent days, until news of the lost sub broke and jumped about 300%.

A simple look at the reviews of iron lung Explain the reason for this increase. Most new comments on Steam are titan case jokes. “I played it with a Logitech F710 and 3 of my rich friends for the best dive” or “great game, I’d pay $250,000 to play it” in reference to the price OceanGate was charging to get into the sub- marine.

It is not that iron lung trying to profit from the tragedy, taking into account that was released in March 2022; although it is very likely that stores like Steam will be filled in the next few days with underwater games to take advantage of the trend, as has happened with other world-class events.

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