Darkwater is a cooperative extraction horror game set beneath the frozen ocean of an alien moon. A devastating disease has prompted the government to freeze the surface, leaving you and your crew trapped below. Survival means ranging between abandoned outposts for fuel while piecing together fragments of a larger truth, with scarce resources making each expedition a risk.
The submarine is both transport and workplace: players take direct control of piloting, weapons and sonar, then upgrade the vessel with expanded decks and specialized rooms. At outposts, crews can explore dilapidated underwater facilities on foot and carry supplies back, while threats include infected divers, angler fish and alien crabs. Combat spans weapons for expeditions and naval tools such as torpedoes, harpoons, decoy mines and depth charges; rival submarines may be negotiated with or fought.
Its extraction structure ties submarine travel, scavenging and survival together, while the possibility of boarding enemy vessels by manned torpedo adds a particularly direct twist to the underwater conflict.
