Submerged: Hidden Depths is featured in the MIX 10th Anniversary Showcase on Steam . Miku and Taku are back! This week Submerged: Hidden Depths features in the MIX 10th Anniversary Showcase on Steam! Time has passed and a lot has happened to Miku and Taku. The new game brings a n
We have some exciting news for Submerged fans. Submerged: Hidden Depths is available now on Steam! Sit back, relax, and explore Submerged: Hidden Depths. Now on Steam! The long-awaited sequel to Submerged has now been launched on your favourite platforms. Pick up a copy of Submer
Sit back, relax, and explore Submerged: Hidden Depths. Now on Steam!
The long-awaited sequel to Submerged has now been launched on your favourite platforms. Pick up a copy of Submerged: Hidden Depths today and join Miku and Taku on a relaxing and explorative adventure.
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The Uppercut Games Team!
Added a fast travel button to the pause menu for returning to the home base. Fixed start up crash some players were getting.
Set sail on March 10th as Submerged: Hidden Depths launches on Steam. Set in a breathtaking city gripped by a dark mystery, Submerged: Hidden Depths is an adventure exploration game that sees players climb the ruins of lost skyscrapers to uncover the tale of the sunken city, whil
- Submerged correctly uses the language selected for it in Steam - Fixed the Korean language not working - Fixed multiple stuck bugs
The Hidden Visions update adds a new treasure hunt to the post-campaign Explore mode. What are these peculiar, pulsating plants and where will they lead Miku and Taku next? Follow the trail to find out! Additional Update Notes: Unreal Engine Upgrade supports newer hardware. 4K Mo
Bug fix patch: - Fixed a bug where you could be stuck on a plank after loading a save game. - Fixed a few remnants that would just disappear. - Fixed telescope mode leaving you in a spinning boat if you were turning whilst entering telescope mode. - Fixed black ledges in low deta
Bug fix patch: - Fixed a bug where you could be stuck on a plank after loading a save game. - Fixed a few remnants that would just disappear. - Fixed telescope mode leaving you in a spinning boat if you were turning whilst entering telescope mode. - Fixed black ledges in low deta
There's no combat in Submerged , the post-apocalyptic exploration and adventure game from indie studio Uppercut Games. While it has eerie moments, and even a couple frightening ones, there are no enemies. While you spend a great deal of time scaling buildings, hanging by your fin
There's no combat in Submerged, the post-apocalyptic exploration and adventure game from indie studio Uppercut Games. While it has eerie moments, and even a couple frightening ones, there are no enemies. While you spend a great deal of time scaling buildings, hanging by your fingertips from ledges, vines, and pipes, you can't fall. And, apart from some on-screen explanatory text, there are essentially no words. Despite this, Submerged manages to tell three different stories in three different ways, all visually.
Submerged is about a young woman named Miku and her brother, Taku, who have arrived in a ruined city partially submerged in the sea. Taku has a severe injury, and Miku must explore the city—by boat and by climbing its crumbling buildings—in search of items like food, medicine, and bandages to save her brother's life. The three stories that slowly come to light as you progress are the story of the submerged city, the story of Taku's injury and the reason Miku brought him to the city at all, and the story of what happens to Miku once she starts exploring. Each of these stories are pieced together slowly while you play, but in different and interesting ways.
Submerged is an open world game: you can climb and explore the buildings in whatever order you like, using your boat to get around and a telescope to spot areas of interest. The buildings are essentially climbing puzzles, and you're guided by visual clues: vines with red flowers and certain types of ledges quickly become familiar and take you on circuitous routes up, down, around, and over the buildings. As you climb and explore you find pictograph clues scattered around the buildings, and they're added to your journal. They're not collected in order, so you may find a piece of the story from the beginning, another from the end, a few from the middle, and the longer you play the more you'll piece together until the story becomes more clear.
Putting together the city's story is optional, similar to hunting for collectibles in other games, like GTA 5's hidden packages or Far Cry 4's Mani Wheels, only you uncover a history of the location in addition to the feeling of having completed a task. You can also collect pictographs of landmarks and the local fauna as you encounter them.
The story of Miku and Taku, how Taku was injured, and how they came to this ruined city is also told with pictographs, but it's told from beginning to end instead of in a patchwork. While you can climb buildings in whatever order you want, the first piece of Miku and Taku's story will be revealed with the first supply chest you find, regardless of its actual location. In that respect, the siblings' story is a linearly told story in an open world. You also receive a series of four pictographs at a time, almost like a comic strip—and not a very happy one—that reveals their history.
Not only are these interesting ways to tell stories, they require a little more work than, say, a journal entry or an audio diary or a cutscene flashback. There's nothing wrong with those storytelling devices when they're done well—I enjoyed Bioshock's audio diaries, for example—but figuring out what Submerged is trying to tell you can take some examination and thought in ways that listening to someone tell you a story often doesn't require. It's similar to environmental storytelling, where you're simply examining the world and putting together a narrative for yourself, and feeling that satisfying mental click when another piece falls into place.
The third story is one I can't really talk about specifically, because I don't want to reveal anything about it, but it becomes evident that as you play that being in this drowned city is having a effect on Miku. You witness this effect slowly over time, entirely through visuals, Miku's body language, and her wordless reactions to what is happening to her.
The only real text in the game is the statement of Miku's goal when she sets out to find items that will help her brother, and a handful of gameplay tips. Everything else is imparted without words, which I found engaging and refreshing. With all three stories all unfolding simultaneously while you play, there's plenty of motivation to keep progressing, and allowing the player to figure out these stories for themselves is far more rewarding than simply telling them.
Submerged is now available on Steam and in the Humble store.
Sometimes, just sometimes, it s nice to take a break from all the murder. Even the most red-blooded psychopath needs a day off. Which makes Submerged s combat-free, climbing-n-boating exploration of a half-drowned city an extremely refreshing time. Here’s wot I think: …
Sometimes, just sometimes, it s nice to take a break from all the murder. Even the most red-blooded psychopath needs a day off. Which makes Submerged s [official site] combat-free, climbing-n-boating exploration of a half-drowned city an extremely refreshing time. Here’s wot I think:
Submerged is Now Available on Steam and is 10% off!* Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her woun
Post-apocalyptic video games are rarely serene. Thugs want to kill you, mutants want to eat you, and irradiated fauna wants to chew on your bones. Sometimes there are zombies. Video games rely on these conflicts to keep ladling us with gratification, but Submerged is a post-apoca
Post-apocalyptic video games are rarely serene. Thugs want to kill you, mutants want to eat you, and irradiated fauna wants to chew on your bones. Sometimes there are zombies. Video games rely on these conflicts to keep ladling us with gratification, but Submerged is a post-apocalyptic game where nothing kills or even chases you. You literally can t die in Submerged.
I first saw Submerged at GDC in March. After several hours wandering booths, killing this and that and dying pretty regularly, I was drawn to the sad drowned world of Submerged. As a young woman named Miku I was allowed to slowly glide around in a boat, sailing between the crumbling skyscrapers of a ruined city, sighting uncannily familiar landmarks, and staring at the horizon as it melted into an orange dusk.
Submerged is a relaxing game and it s probably going to annoy anyone looking for 'game-y' gratification. It's developed by Canberra studio Uppercut Games, and the three-person team have history with the now shuttered 2K Australia, formerly known as Irrational Australia. Employed by those studios, the team had a hand in the two BioShocks, as well as Tribes: Vengeance and Xcom, to name a few.
In all of these games you can die, but not in Submerged. Sometimes you ll leave your boat to scale the treacherous walls of a ruin, but they re not treacherous at all, really: you can t fall off them. You can t fall off anything. You re gently tasked with finding resources that can aid your sickly brother, but unless you re especially invested in the game s cryptic plot there s no urgency to do so.
Miku must scale numerous buildings, but she's never at risk of falling off.There are no failure states, Uppercut director Ed Orman says. This sounds very counterintuitive at first, but there are lots of different factors that have contributed to our combat-free game design. I guess the most prevalent one was that at some point we had the realisation that we'd made a place that was so pleasant that the threat of death sort of detracted from it.
A few other factors contributed to Uppercut s decision to forgo deadly conflict. The first is simple: after developing two third-person shooter games for phones and tablets, they were burnt out on combat. The second is borne of a GTA 4 mod that submerges Liberty City in water. There was all this chaos and it totally broke the game, Orman says. But I had a freeze frame of it and I thought it looked like a really peaceful, interesting place .
In addition to resources for the protagonist s brother, Submerged has other collectibles, including power-ups for your boat. But it appears Uppercut doesn t necessarily want people to boot up Submerged in order to engage with its systems. This is a game inspired by Journey and Shadow of the Colossus—both games that leave the player to their own devices in a mysterious world. As in Journey, players can piece together the story via cryptic pictograms scattered throughout the world.
I think the influence is obvious once you start playing it, Orman says regarding Journey. We learnt a lot about storytelling by working on BioShock—that idea of progression via storytelling, and having things in the environment that allow people to piece the story together. The language [on the pictograms] is a character substitute and I wanted to have that as an Easter egg for people to figure out—you can translate each of the pictograms.
So there's no written history, just these images, and the player will have to decipher them and decide what they mean.
Submerged has identifiable landmarks, but they're all from different real world locations.One of the seemingly obvious themes of Submerged is climate change, though Orman is reluctant to drive the point home. The idea for the setting and gameplay long predates any association with the topic, though they did have to eventually decide what kind of apocalypse the world had experienced.
It was unintentional at the beginning, but the setting we ve chosen is pretty topical with global warming, sea levels rising and people ignoring that problem," said Orman. It was only after we started talking about the backstory that we managed to tie everything together into something that affected the past and the present of the Submerged world. And while the story of the city and the world can be pieced together by exploring and finding secrets, we are never explicit—it's still up to the player to interpret the pictures they find and what story they tell.
Submerged releases on Steam on August 4.
Exploring a drowned world on a dinky little boat sounds grand. Not Waterworld drowned, just… end-of-human-civilization-as-we-know-it-don’t-worry-it’s-kinda-peaceful-may-as-well-accept-it drowned. I’ve had my eye on Submerged for a while, keen to get exploring, and am glad to lear
Exploring a drowned world on a dinky little boat sounds grand. Not Waterworld drowned, just… end-of-human-civilization-as-we-know-it-don’t-worry-it’s-kinda-peaceful-may-as-well-accept-it drowned. I’ve had my eye on Submerged [official site] for a while, keen to get exploring, and am glad to learn the wait is almost over. For months I’ve been making do the best I can, which was sitting in the bath surrounded by LEGO houses. It’s not the same.
Submerged will arrive next Tuesday, August 4th, developers Uppercut Games have announced. Come see some lovelies in a new trailer:
One of the most interesting games I saw at GDC earlier this year was Submerged, a combat-free exploration game by Australian studio Uppercut Games. The game has been in development for a while now, but it's finally releasing next month on Steam August 4, to be precise. Submerged
One of the most interesting games I saw at GDC earlier this year was Submerged, a combat-free exploration game by Australian studio Uppercut Games. The game has been in development for a while now, but it's finally releasing next month on Steam August 4, to be precise.
Submerged follows Miku, who's tasked with tending to her sick brother in a flood-ravaged city. It sounds like a familiar post-apocalyptic scenario on paper, but you won't be killing anything in Submerged. Instead, there's an aquatic open world to explore, and the game is designed to be played slowly: it's a meditative experience above all else.
It brings to mind a mix of Ico and Shadow of the Colossus, but instead of a horse you've got a boat, and instead of killing giant monsters you're marvelling at whales. Miku's most prized tool is a telescope, which she uses to spot points of interest thorughout the world. Expect to scale crumbling skyscrapers in search of any resources that might be useful to your ailing brother.
Created by former Irrational Australia devs (they had a hand in BioShock, XCOM and Tribes: Vengeance, among others), the game has a Steam page, and a new trailer.