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Surviving the Abyss
Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“Coming from Surviving Mars, this feels like a solid early access game. If you've played any city builders at all, this game won't be a problem. Just build things as you need it, there's no real big way to fail. There's an interesting core game but it doesn't seem fleshed out…”
— a player, Steam review · 31 hrs played“It's good, but an acquired taste sort of good. I first played this when it came out in early access. It wasn't very much then, as you'd expect of an early access game. I first played it, like what? 2022? 2023? Somewhere along those lines. The game was different and yet similar…”
— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs played“I bought the game in early access, found it unplayable and shelved it. This past week I found it in my library and, with it being fully released, I decided to give it another shot. This is my review for the second shot. Art / Graphics The game is visually pleasant. Really like…”
— a player, Steam review · 18 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 01:00 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.
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Latest official news
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Surviving the Abyss - Update 1.0.5 - Patch Notes
Hey everyone, just a small patch this time related to the recently announced Unity Engine vulnerability. Stay tuned for additional updates, and don't hesitate to share your feedback with us either her
Surviving the Abyss - Update 1.0.4 - Patch Notes
Hey all, Firstly we'd like to apologise for the longer than anticipated wait for the next update. It's taken us some time to put a team in place to continue work on the project. This update has been c
Surviving the Abyss - Update 1.0.3 - Patch Notes
In this latest patch we've addressed some performance issues, a number of bugs, and a requested change to the camera. Stay tuned for additional updates, and don't hesitate to share your feedback with
Surviving the Abyss - Update 1.02 - Patch Notes
Hey all! In today's patch we've addressed a number of bugs reported last week from the 1.0 release. Stay tuned for additional updates, and don't hesitate to share your feedback with us either here or
Surviving the Abyss - Update 1.01 - Patch Notes
Hi everyone! In today's patch we've implemented several bug fixes including fixes to the Brig, changes to mining relay visibility and incorrect status tags appearing on unstaffed buildings. Stay tuned
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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 | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | City Builder · Colony Sim · Exploration · Underwater · Building · Management · Base-Building · Survival · Difficult · Economy · RTS · Strategy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 27 |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 64-bit or newer Processor: Intel Core i5-3570K or AMD FX-8310 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GeForce GTX 950 or Radeon HD 7970 Storage: 8 GB available space