From the Depths
2020
Audio: English · Subtitles: Chinese, Russian, English
- role-playing (rpg)
- simulator
- strategy
- adventure
- indie
- action
- science fiction
- warfare
- 4x (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
- single player
The story
In From the Depths you can build and take first-person command of battleships, planes, submarines, space ships, hot air balloons and more! The game contains a wide range of single player content including: A creative mode allowing you to push your designs to the limit and ensure the total annihilation of your opponents. A strategic campaign waged over hundreds of islands against eight unique factions. A Story Mode where you can play missions as each of the eight factions - a fantastic mixture of strategy, design and wild battles! Defend your fleet against waves of enemy forces in a series of extremely tough challenges. Adventure mode where you start on a raft and must build up your fleet and travel a dangerous universe fighting or running from enemy fleets As well as a wide range of multiplayer content Design with your friends in co-op designer Play a range of adversarial modes Play the entire single player campaign together in co-op
What it’s like
Blocky, voxel-built vehicles sit on glassy blue water under bright, flat daylight, with the sea rendered in soft gradients and the horizon held low and wide. The camera moves from a first-person bridge view, so the ships, planes and submarines feel like machines you are physically standing inside, and the sound is a steady mix of engine hum, creaking hull, distant artillery and the hiss of spray. The mood is industrious and a little tense: a patient, tinkering calm broken by sudden, loud battles that spike the pace and then settle back into repair and reassembly. Its rhythm is set by the player, who alternates between long stretches of drafting and tweaking designs and bursts of concentrated naval combat. Violence is cartoonish and constant in battle, with explosions, sinking hulls and debris, but nothing gory or cruel, and there is no sexual content. Best suited to an afternoon of building and tinkering, or a long evening of quiet engineering broken by fleet clashes, for players who love Minecraft-style construction, engineering puzzles and strategy over story.
More games like From the Depths
Closest in mood, pacing and theme. Tell us why you loved From the Depthsand we’ll explain which ones fit you.
