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The game is completely solvable with no guessing.

That's just not true. Most of what you do is guessing. There is nothing in the game, for example, that will tell you who the second mate's steward is. You assume that it's the guy who you frequently see standing near the second mate.

There is also no indication in the game of who killed John Naples.

> There is also no indication in the game of who killed John Naples

Spoiler alert?

The opposite?

> You assume that it's the guy who you frequently see standing near the second mate.

Men wearing steward uniforms frequently hanging around officers do tend to be stewards.

> There is also no indication in the game of who killed John Naples.

Probably the Swedish-speaking man being hauled away from the bloody sword to the lazarette while the captain shouts that he was “twenty years my steward.”

These are not guesses.

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