The Things We Lost In The Flood is a minimalist adventure. You sail through a flooded world, building and improving your pixelated boat as you go. Along the way you can write messages for others to discover, and toss them into the drink in a bottle.

Play involves paddling over bridges and through trees. There are sad and sometime shocking signs of the dead and decaying. Things swing from the morbidity of hanging corpses to the tranquility of listening to the rain while the melancholy music haunts the background.

It seems like a predictable experience, but there's more here than you expect and plenty of surprises along the way. Some of these are the game itself, but others come from the player's messages you discover in bottles.

You have 150 characters to, as the developer puts it, "tell a story, share a secret, try to help a player or even harm them." Once you have read other player's messages you can decide whether to throw it back into the ocean or destroy it forever.

The result is not only an emotive game, but a deposit of over 45,000 player written epistles (17,000 have been destroyed) floating around the ocean.