The Giant's Bones
A downloadable game
In a world where machine and flesh intermingle, two great nations are locked in an arms race that leaves humanity teetering on the edge of oblivion.
As the captain of a repurposed salvage ship, none of that concerns you. Your biggest worry is finding valuable scrap so you can pay your bills and feed your family. But as the affairs of the world loom larger, you soon find yourself pulled into their gravity.
The Giant's Bones is a nautical horror salvage-simulator game where you explore a poisoned ocean in search of just enough wealth to stave off poverty. Can you survive as the world decays around you?
Disclaimer : we're still updating the game, fixing bugs and adding content. Some of the animations are a bit messy, the ending is still being overhaulted, so please stay tuned for the upcoming updates :D !
Oh and if you find some bugs along your playthroughs, please put them in the bug tracking comment down here 👇.
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Development log
- 0.0.4 updateFeb 27, 2026
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This is a very good game! Thank for sharing it with us!
Nice atmosphere, graphics and sound, but I simply couldn't work out how to get that crane working after 15 or so minutes and gave up. Read the emails, moved the boat so i had 3 dashes(multiple times), went around all the radio stations(multiple times), stopped at every one to check the crane, and always offline.
[BUG TRACKING COMMENTS]
Please post any bug you encounter down here.
Here are the current ones we're working on :
Switching commissions rapidly can crash the radar, changing commissions slowly fixes it.
Some of the salvage items don't load properly, too big, too small, no descriptions.
You can get stuck in the oil rig ladder, that area is still under development tho.
I never done an upload before on here, but here is a demonstration of my confusion. Now with the release of 0.0.3 I can no longer see the oil rig at all, on top of the inactive radar. The only remaining explanation I have is that it’s one of those immersive needle in a haystack situations, but it doesn’t explain why I hadn’t experienced it at all on my two other runs prior to 0.0.3’s release. https://youtu.be/W8i_MCdcLXE
You went past the radio and the memo a couple of times, it basically says : turn on the radio and set it to on the oil rig frequency, if there is one nearby it will activate it's lights, if not, steer the boat until the static smoothens up and you'll have be on the right track.
Thank you so much. I was under the impression that radio listening was optional since I encountered the rig before without paying much attention to it. Update: I finally got past the part I was stuck at but this time the game softlocked twice in a row during object inspection. (It’s when you acquire it and are able to rotate it around.)
object inspection shows some descriptive text then a continue button, did the button not show at the end ?
Precisely. The continue button sometimes doesn’t show up. The sound glitch I brought up previously is still present as well. They can coincide, but not always. The welder-like “sizzling” or “crackling” that I previously worded as “scraping”, it can persist unless the game is closed completely.
So… are all of the screens supposed to go black after the first successful salvage? The radar completely ceases to exist. I can’t seem to progress further than that after two attempts.
Yeah, we needed to submit it early for the Game Jam, but we'll be updating the game over the course of the next week or so.
I’ll patiently wait then.
After a successful salvage, a red platform appears out at sea. You can deposite and continue from ther
hey i'm one of the devs, a giant oil rig spawns after the first salvage and you have some hints about how to get to it.
to make sure it's not a bug, let me ask you :
did you notice a giant red dot far away pointing you to it ?
did you look around the ship for clues ?
and as Rowan said, we're still updating the game, and you can expect more guidance through what the player is ment to do.
No. Once the toy looking figurine is obtained there is no radar or any screen for that matter. They all turn pitch black preventing me from seeing any dots at all. And even after depositing the item at the oil rig you mentioned which you can find without the radar’s help, the radar and everything never show up again. For the record, I can still access the PC to check my mail, but I haven’t gotten any besides the two you start with. (I did look around the ship for any other interactions and nothing stood out aside from the usual toilet/bed/crane comments etc.)
Also I did experience something else that was an unmistakable bug. While cleaning the first object, during my first attempt out of the two I had done, the loud scraping noise of the tool that replaces the mouse cursor can apparently continue playing on a loop even after you are done. I’ve even heard it play on the main menu and the only way to make it stop was to quit the game completely and start from the beginning.
you should be able to see the oil in the open sea, after depositing you get a time skip until you get new mail, the radar detects salvage only, we'll work into making it more obvious ig, we need a better player embarking. maybe we'll put the rig on the radar instead.
thanks for the feedback and reporting the scraping noise bug, we'll fix that soon.