Out today, Die or Dive is a promising roguelite scuba sim that basically turns Darkest Dungeon into Ecco the Dolphin

Down wherever it's wetter, that's wherever it's eldritcher (complimentary)

A time volition dawn erstwhile the premise "what if Darkest Dungeon but besides XYZ" volition suffer its crablike stranglehold connected my fancy, but that time is not this day, for contiguous we Dive oregon Die. Not that the 2 activities are mutually exclusive.

In this 2D roguelite scuba sim from Drop Rate Studio and publishers Dear Villagers, the satellite has succumbed to a "black rain" that inflicts mutations and nightmares. It's been chucking it down for 5 coagulated years, successful fact, with quality civilisation reduced to scraping a surviving connected mountaintops that are present islands. There isn't overmuch of a surviving to scrape connected mountaintops, truthful disconnected you spell into the "abyssal pool" to dredge up immoderate canned nutrient and gathering materials.

20 oregon 30 metres down, each you truly request to interest astir is immoderate touchy-feely carnivorous algae. It's almost... serene. But past you poke your caput into a cave, possibly hunting a crafting blueprint oregon immoderate robust for a basal upgrade, and whoops, thing has poked its caput into you.

As with Darkest Dungeon's formed of mercenaries, idiosyncratic Dive and/or Diers are some fragile and disposable. They level up beauteous fast, but they besides sprout foibles and afflictions to lucifer the shrinking of their sanity bars. When not paddling astir successful flooded catacombs, you tin presumption them successful your basal buildings for assorted resourcing benefits.

The large overarching interest is the coming of the Rainmaker, a sky-scraping squidgod and the root of the achromatic rain. No, not a hotshot lawyer, though good done you for knowing your John Grisham.

Each run, you're fixed a countdown till the Rainmaker rocks up and unleashes the last tsunami. To prolong the countdown, you indispensable stitchery definite relics from the ruins below. While it's hooked up to a acquainted vein of eldritch, I'm enjoying the determination and monster design: you'll fumble down aged elevator shafts and delve into labyrinths of tombstones, each the portion avoiding and, if you must, battling creatures that dwell mostly of elbows and incisors.

I've unlocked a dartgun successful the demo, which spans the archetypal 10 in-game days, but I'm successful nary temper to prime fights. Though I bash clasp retired anticipation of it abruptly coming implicit each Barotrauma and handing maine an existent submarine. Find the demo connected Steam, for a small while, anyhow – the afloat crippled is retired today.