PC Critic Reviews

Kursk isn’t a bad video game, but its many flaws keep us from recommending it.

Jujubee S.A.’s efforts in creating a different narrative style is admirable, and they did a great job in designing a solid atmosphere and a dynamic environment. But when it comes to presenting a video game inspired by real historical events, KURSK falls a little bit short, and besides that the core gameplay is not really entertaining either.

KURSK can be interesting as a virtual guide to Oscar-II submarines, but as a video game it's just mediocre.

Kursk is an interesting idea on paper but the actual product falls short in many aspects. The gameplay is dull, uninteresting and full of dead moments, the production values are average at best.

Short and boring, with a story that is, to put it simply - bad historical fiction.

If it weren’t for the title related to a real submarine and the horrible tragedy of its crew, no one would care about Kursk – and we would have missed absolutely nothing. It’s a dated, terribly boring (both in terms of gameplay and the story), and generally poorly made game. [01/2019, p.54]

This game is equally bad in all of its aspects. The developers should remove all the gameplay and turn Kursk into a free virtual tour of the submarine.

Devoid of meaningful information about the Kursk and its disastrous accident the game shouldn’t be described in any way as a documentary by the developers. As a game it also fails due to extremely tedious and repetitive objectives, sending us back and forth to the same areas ad infinitum.

Beyond KURSK‘s virtual tour of the ill-fated titular submarine, this self-proclaimed “adventure documentary” works as neither a compelling adventure game nor a fact-based documentary of the mysterious disaster.