Hydrophobia was a short but neat little game for its time. It only took me about three hours to complete the campaign. There was definitely quite a bit of potential with this one that, ultimately, I did not feel was completely realized. For how cool the water physics in this game are, they really did not utilize it in the best way with regards to making fun, water-based puzzles. You also gain the ability to manipulate water very late into the game and barely have time to make use of it.

I only ran into a few bugs during my playthrough, but they were quite significant. It appears that either vsync or sub 60 FPS (or both) are needed to make certain platform jumps in this game, so keep that in mind. I really hoped this studio would have been able to keep going with this franchise as it really was fairly fun to play around with the physics in here. Maybe in the future another studio can pick up on the idea of a water-based game.

All that being said, this game is quite cheap and if you feel like trying out an interesting bump in gaming's long history, then by all means give it a try. If you can pick it up for just a few bucks then recommend giving it a go.