The score is intentional. You are not supposed to safe everyone, its the titanic afterall. The rest is all bugs that we would fix in a past jam release.

We explained why this is on topic. The accident escalates as the leaks will become larger and reopen faster as time goes on. And if you don't use the pumps properly, or even if you use them properly, there is a tipping point at which the boat can no longer stay afloat. Such kind of escalation is called snowballing. Tbf, we also wanted to add the passengers that would run around deviating the center point of mass, causing the ship to be even more unbalanced. Additionally there were supposed to be pop up events which in the background would cause the panic meter to increase causing bad things to happen faster and larger. Still, as it stands, we did implement the basic of the snowballing, though not as much as we wanted to.