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Sunkenland
Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?
In short, Steam reviewers most often praise “fun survival crafting and building” (72 of 104 reviews) and “active updates and care” (19); the most common complaint is “abandoned radio silent no updates” (19). What reviewers agree on ↓
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-12.
What reviewers agree on
72 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Great base of a game, fun gameplay, awesome theme. Unfortunately there are a LOT of bugs and needed updates and enhancements, but the developer refuses to push out any updates to their default (live) game. Instead, they…”
“I would love to love this game but currently can't. The level of jank is unacceptable. Constantly getting stuck on things that don't exist and then drowning as a result just gets boring after the third or fourth time.…”
“This one almost hurts to write. When Sunkenland first came out, I was immensely excited for it. It was definitely bare-bones; most of the ocean was empty and barren, the graphics for the mutants and people were clearly…”
19 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“This one almost hurts to write. When Sunkenland first came out, I was immensely excited for it. It was definitely bare-bones; most of the ocean was empty and barren, the graphics for the mutants and people were clearly…”
“My friends begged me to buy this, i finally caved and they played it for a total 90 min. (this was 2 years ago) I think its pretty good tho, couple updates and some quality of life fixes and it could shape up to be a…”
10 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“It was a great game, I guess. I really enjoyed my time with it, you can see from my hours that in terms of cost / play it was good :) I really wanted to see the 1.0. Unfortunately it's now been 4 months since any kind…”
“I LOVE this game. over 200 hours and my only complaint is that it isnt finished. It has SO MUCH potential, but it is STILL at this stage worth it!! I will play this game forever even if it never finishes beyond this…”
“Hi All, So this is a tricky one. Im playing the public tests beta from the start. It has some new features and a few bugs with the starting feats (I went for Diving and Gunsmith but Gunsmith didn't seem to work). At 5…”
9 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“Although it's fun and has great co-op, it's abandoned and un-finished. Also, I do not support charging full price for yet another forever Early Access sh*t. 8/10”
“great multiplayer game wich involves connecting and having a ton of fun with each other , while exploring the open sea in this dynamic open world experience.”
“Very nice survilal Game its bugs make it so fun to play and abuse God tier Movement mechanics and the pve is super fun in the early Game i would like to see m,ore primal/bow pve but it gets useless too fast overall…”
7 of the 104 reviews raise this.
“What I like about it is, you don't have to think to much. Crafting is made simple for beginners and you can just chill and play, Its a good survival game if you havent tried any yet. There is a lot of cool stuff to…”
19 of the 104 reviews raise this · 3 of them still recommend the game.
“DO NOT BUY These developers have a history of abandoning their projects, and then changing their name, and starting over again.”
“Not worth playing now they have basically abandoned the game and let it rife with bugs.”
“It was a great game, I guess. I really enjoyed my time with it, you can see from my hours that in terms of cost / play it was good :) I really wanted to see the 1.0. Unfortunately it's now been 4 months since any kind…”
17 of the 104 reviews raise this · 13 of them still recommend the game.
“Not worth playing now they have basically abandoned the game and let it rife with bugs.”
“Great base of a game, fun gameplay, awesome theme. Unfortunately there are a LOT of bugs and needed updates and enhancements, but the developer refuses to push out any updates to their default (live) game. Instead, they…”
“I would love to love this game but currently can't. The level of jank is unacceptable. Constantly getting stuck on things that don't exist and then drowning as a result just gets boring after the third or fourth time.…”
10 of the 104 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“It was a great game, I guess. I really enjoyed my time with it, you can see from my hours that in terms of cost / play it was good :) I really wanted to see the 1.0. Unfortunately it's now been 4 months since any kind…”
“This one almost hurts to write. When Sunkenland first came out, I was immensely excited for it. It was definitely bare-bones; most of the ocean was empty and barren, the graphics for the mutants and people were clearly…”
“Although it's fun and has great co-op, it's abandoned and un-finished. Also, I do not support charging full price for yet another forever Early Access sh*t. 8/10”
7 of the 104 reviews raise this · 6 of them still recommend the game.
“So first things first; "26 minutes played" is extremely misleading; I played this game for about 8 hours a year or two ago, but apparently it isn't counting that. The thing is though, the game I played was in a…”
“Hi All, So this is a tricky one. Im playing the public tests beta from the start. It has some new features and a few bugs with the starting feats (I went for Diving and Gunsmith but Gunsmith didn't seem to work). At 5…”
“I didn't last an hour before getting bored. Cool concept, not enough to keep me playing. But I still kinda recommend it, because like I said it's a cool concept.”
6 of the 104 reviews raise this · 5 of them still recommend the game.
“Oddly difficult with no reward. Everything felt a bit pointless. Got excited for a few things (like the trader) and it was very underwhelming. Some things improved over the years but not enough to keep me around for…”
“THEY DO RUSH YOU WITH GOOD GUNS JUST WHEN YOU UPGRADE YOUR RESERCH BENCH TO LEVEL THREE BECAUSE YOU JUST GOT ADVANCED GUNS”
Counted across 104 English reviews, sampled to match this game's 80.4% positive rating · as of 2026-05-12
“Look at all the negative reviews. I'll wait. Ok... So now your still reading. Guess what, this game is not that as bad as they say. It's actually VERY well put together with such a low budget. Is it an asset flip? YEP. But it's well put together. They keep updating. I played…”
— a player, Steam review · 45 hrs played“I like it - quite entertaining - I guess there's some bugs here and there, but they are not breaking the game. I played the released version for quite a while before switching to the beta branch. That one is even better. The biggest downside I can think of, is that the new big…”
— a player, Steam review · 574 hrs played“A game with a ton of potential and awesome ideas that's plagued by nonexistent updates to the public build and a stagnant test build where they actually have updated and shown some awesome ideas and mechanics but they communicate so rarely that its hard to tell if the game is…”
— a player, Steam review · 54 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 2026-10-20.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Update v0.9.20
Greetings, Sunkenlanders. We have added three new companions to the game, bringing you more fun and convenience. You can send companions out to gather resources, chop trees, mine materials, and repair
Update v0.9.10 | Public Test Branch
New Feature: Companion System Three new companions have arrived in Sunkenland, located at Big Bucket Fortress, Radio Island, and Zion Atoll! Rescue and recruit them to join your adventures and help wi
Hotfix v0.8.93
Bug Fixes Fixed an issue where the name of a ship-mounted Sleeping Bag was not saved correctly. Fixed an issue where player names could sometimes display incorrectly in multiplayer. Fixed an issue whe
Hotfix 0.8.92
Bug Fixes Fixed an issue where players could not jump out of the water. Fixed network lag on Dedicated Servers caused by ship-mounted weapons. Fixed an issue where underwater effects, such as bubbles,
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-12.
| Genres | Action, Indie, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Open World Survival Craft · Survival · Co-op · Underwater · Multiplayer · Base-Building · Crafting · Open World · Exploration · Adventure · Sandbox (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Turkish |
| Achievements | 107 |
| Official site | https://www.sunkenlandgame.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Dual-Core 2.4 GHz Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT