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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. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“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 count fetched 2026-07-24 00:28 UTC · history 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 2026-07-25.
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 2026-05-20.
| 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 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
| 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