Abandon Ship’s first update abandons absolute brutality

This year’s FTL-but-with-pirates effort Abandon Ship had ‘Alec’ written all over it, but unhappily I found that me timbers were not especially shivered by it in practice. A combination of great repetition and vicious circles of doom meant I drifted away all too soon. Fireblade Software’s boats’n’cosmic horror game did pretty well for itself nonetheless, and now they’ve just loaded up its early access hold with its first major update. The main focus of this is on making the game less wantonly cruel.
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