Most of the options are uninteresting or verbose, and since most of the time there are only two options, the text and verbiage gets old quickly.
Plot is roughly acceptable, but only barely. Descriptions lack a degree of interest and detail to spark real curiosity about people, places, or events.
I think the whole thing would have benefited overall from a little less adventure (which is what I assume they were trying to do with the combat and daunting situations at every conceivable turn) and a little more effort into the literary side of things.
Yes, I uninstalled it as soon as I got the end screen.
Overall: worth the dollar I paid to save me what I might have invested in inkle games otherwise, but only that.
((Personal nitpick: I pick witch and you give me a wand?! The amulet was a good choice, then you ruined it with a wand! A wand bearing pirate witch at sea? Urgh.))
AingealWroth about Down Among the Dead Men