You’re on a hostile alien planet, in a machine you don’t know how to work. You’ve jumped into this device in a desperate bid for safety, wanted for crimes unknown, with the cops at your heels. The actions of the entities outside (yep, definitely entities outside) can only be gleaned through your scanners, once you’ve turned them on. You don’t know how to turn them on. Or how to move. Or how to stop the pressure from crushing everything.
Nauticrawl, previously 20,000 Atmospheres, has one of the most intriguing pitches I’ve ever read. It’s out now, but you won’t catch me in that machine until someone tells me I won’t cry.