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Darkwater
Darkwater is a cooperative extraction horror game for 1-4 players. Command a submarine trapped under the ice of an alien planet. Battle enemy vessels and deep sea abominations as you hunt for resources. Do what it takes to survive.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
What reviewers agree on
59 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“I've seen a few pretty critical reviews of this game that have no more than a single hour of playtime and all their issues look to be specific to them, not the game in general. That being said, there *are* some bugs in…”
“Fun with friends, mid alone. The gameplay loop is basically Lethal Company but with a cool battleship twist. Managing the ship while getting spammed by torpedoes, hooks, and mines is chaotic in a good way. Constant…”
“Good gameplay loop, needs a greater variety of maps, submarine encounters and enemies. Also needs more loot and a reason to keep pushing forward but currently the struggle seems somewhat hollow. Very lethal companyesque…”
23 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Fun with friends, mid alone. The gameplay loop is basically Lethal Company but with a cool battleship twist. Managing the ship while getting spammed by torpedoes, hooks, and mines is chaotic in a good way. Constant…”
“I expected this game to truly be just another friendslop but honestly the first time me and some friends played it we fell in love with this game. Props to devs.”
“So addicting and great fun with buddies. The submarine survival is challenging but it stays fun through the whole experience. We bought the game and binged it for hours”
12 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“I've seen a few pretty critical reviews of this game that have no more than a single hour of playtime and all their issues look to be specific to them, not the game in general. That being said, there *are* some bugs in…”
“The gameplay to some degree reminds me of Barotrauma if it was first person, it is fun but death feels very unforgiving, especially if you play solo, overall fun game with friends and the price point is super fair, i…”
“Definitely worth the $12, but the game lacks content, and the combat feels tedious and awkward, particularly in melee. However, the concept and foundation are certainly present.”
10 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“The gameplay to some degree reminds me of Barotrauma if it was first person, it is fun but death feels very unforgiving, especially if you play solo, overall fun game with friends and the price point is super fair, i…”
“Iv been following this game for years and its only gotten better and this full release made me come back to this game.”
“Fun to hop on with a few friends. It has the normal bugs for early access but we've having a blast with it now, and look forward to future updates. It's a straightforward gameplay loop of hopping between sites to…”
7 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“So addicting and great fun with buddies. The submarine survival is challenging but it stays fun through the whole experience. We bought the game and binged it for hours”
“🔥🔥 Great game, has a mix of R.E.P.O/Sea of Thieves mechanics almost. Just beat it on a solo run, the final boss had me running around for probably 30 minutes repairing/slowly waiting for missiles to reload (even if you…”
“Fun so far and not very buggy. Needs more enemies and jump scares. Maybe harder and faster enemies. Blacking out all the lanterns randomly would add to it. Fun but could use more in map challenges”
21 of the 104 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“Love the idea and your game but 1 time use bottle for oxygen that disappears right away, diving suit that is used and goes back to slot. Sorry but a lot of the game doesnt feel satisfactory yet. I hope it will get…”
“Fun with friends, mid alone. The gameplay loop is basically Lethal Company but with a cool battleship twist. Managing the ship while getting spammed by torpedoes, hooks, and mines is chaotic in a good way. Constant…”
21 of the 104 reviews raise this · 9 of them still recommend the game.
“Good gameplay loop, needs a greater variety of maps, submarine encounters and enemies. Also needs more loot and a reason to keep pushing forward but currently the struggle seems somewhat hollow. Very lethal companyesque…”
14 of the 104 reviews raise this · 8 of them still recommend the game.
“I've seen a few pretty critical reviews of this game that have no more than a single hour of playtime and all their issues look to be specific to them, not the game in general. That being said, there *are* some bugs in…”
“Bugs galore. Progress constantly holted or lost. Items being removed for no reason between districts”
“Very good game, but should still be in BETA, lots of bugs”
8 of the 104 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Good gameplay loop, needs a greater variety of maps, submarine encounters and enemies. Also needs more loot and a reason to keep pushing forward but currently the struggle seems somewhat hollow. Very lethal companyesque…”
8 of the 104 reviews raise this · 2 of them still recommend the game.
“Love the idea and your game but 1 time use bottle for oxygen that disappears right away, diving suit that is used and goes back to slot. Sorry but a lot of the game doesnt feel satisfactory yet. I hope it will get…”
“Bugs galore. Progress constantly holted or lost. Items being removed for no reason between districts”
“Your items on the floor gets deleted if you edit the submarine and items in storage disappear randomly. The game also has an incredible amount of 2 (two) tilesets; Outpost and Outpost - Japan.”
Counted across 104 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 78.5% positive rating · as of 2026-05-13
“The Devs advertising accurately shows you the gameplay of this game. Much fun, especially if you like Lethal Company style games. WORTH EVERY PENNY!!!”
— a player, Steam review · 39 hrs played“this is an amazing game, especially with friends. its like a mix of FTL ship combat, Lethal company looting, and Barotrauma submarine vibes, all perfectly blended together. Highly recommend playing this game, it has a lot of content and replayabiliy, definetly worth the money.”
— a player, Steam review · 37 hrs played“This game is good, it's fun, I like it. It doesn't feel complete, this should be in early access. From encountering major bugs every session such as dying or having inventory wiped on district transition with the only fix being restarting the game, to things feeling under…”
— a player, Steam review · 36 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-05.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Version 1.0.03 Patch Notes
Attention Divers, We've deployed a balancing and hotfix update. See the changelist below! Balance Loot can now spawn in enemy submarine lockers Toilet schematic (Schematics_Industrial) spawn weight in
Version 1.0.01 Patch Notes
Attention Divers, We've deployed a balancing and hotfix update. See the changelist below! Balance Respawning in outpost now always assigns hitpoints to 20 (instead of a random value between 5-20) Bug
Darkwater 1.0 is Available Now!
Divers! The time has finally arrived - Darkwater is launching into 1.0 with the Nations Update! WHAT'S NEW It's been a long road since we entered Early Access back in April of last year, and since the
Darkwater 1.0 is coming March 26
We're excited to announce that Darkwater is leaving Steam Early Access on March 26, 2026 @ 10AM PDT! This will coincide with the final major update - NATIONS - which adds a variety of new submarines,
Version 0.6.20 Patch Notes
Attention Divers, We've deployed a balancing and hotfix update based on player feedback. See the changelist below! General Inventory UI now disabled in lobby Pneumatic Launcher system renamed to Manne
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Casual, Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Early Access · Online Co-Op · Horror · Submarine · Survival · Strategy · Multiplayer · Naval · Underwater · Co-op · PvE · Resource Management (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Latin America, Traditional Chinese * |
| Achievements | 14 |
| Official site | https://www.playdarkwater.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system Processor: Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.00GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GForce GTX 1050 DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 7 GB available space