(mini-review).

Maneater is a fun little game where you play as a baby shark that must consume wildlife and man to grow and evolve. The ultimate goal is to develop into "Mega" status and become the apex predator by knocking off all other "apex" predators. Along the way, you'll find hidden resource caches, uncover tongue-in-cheek stories about your environment and unlock modifications and upgrades, like bony protrusions, bio-electric skin, poison cloud or vampirism. Discovering hidden environments is neat and the combat, while clumsy, can be fun in short doses, as you employ different strategies against different predators. The game runs reasonably well and looks fine but the title crashed more than a few times for me. The game can be a merciless slog at the beginning and shamefully easy at the end so the pacing definitely needs work and the silly tone undermines the fun of being a super predator.

Still worth picking up on a sale as a nice diversion.

Worth a look.

7/10.

(mini-review). Maneater is a fun little game where you play as a baby shark that must consume wildlife and man to grow and evolve. The ultimate goal is to develop into "Mega" status and become the apex predator by knocking off all other "apex" predators. Along the way, you'll find hidden resource caches, uncover tongue-in-cheek stories about your environment and unlock modifications and upgrades, like bony protrusions, bio-electric skin, poison cloud or vampirism. Discovering hidden environments is neat and the combat, while clumsy, can be fun in short doses, as you employ different strategies against different predators. The game runs reasonably well and looks fine but the title crashed more than a few times for me. The game can be a merciless slog at the beginning and shamefully easy at the end so the pacing definitely needs work and the silly tone undermines the fun of being a super predator. Still worth picking up on a sale as a nice diversion. Worth a look. 7/10.