How to Play Drink the Ocean: Your First Salt Run
A sip fills your belly and lowers the sea. To earn salt, carry that water to the PRESS. Your first trip from the shore to the press teaches the loop you’ll use for the rest of the game.
Walk to the shore and take your first sip
On a computer, click inside the game to give it focus. Move with WASD and look with the mouse. On a phone, steer with the on-screen joystick and drag the view to look around.
Point at the water until the crosshair turns green and the drink prompt appears. Left-click on desktop or hold DRINK on a touchscreen. Look at the belly meter to confirm the sip went through. The Ocean Drunk percentage is your progress across the whole sea, so it can change by a small amount on your first sip.
Take a full belly to the PRESS
Keep drinking while there’s room in the belly meter. Once it’s full, follow the direction arrow away from the shore to the PRESS. If you lose your bearings, turn until the arrow points ahead of you, then move toward it.
Stand beneath the press until you see the belly amount fall and the salt counter rise. Those two meters tell you whether the exchange worked. Trying to take more sips with a full belly just leaves you at the shoreline.
Visit the SHOP before the next trip
The blue SHOP pad is where you spend the salt. Read the available upgrades while you’re there, then buy for the part of the route that slowed you down. If you barely had time to drink before you had to head back to the press, belly capacity is a useful first purchase.
Return to the shore and repeat the loop. As the waterline moves, step closer before trying another sip and wait for the green crosshair again.
Game details and controls: Playgama’s Drink the Ocean listing.
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