Very Positive(86%)
Ocean exploration
Mobile base
Atmosphere
Crafting loop
Developer updates
Slow pacing
Limited guidance
Boat capacity
Early Access
Ocean motion
Crashes
Poor optimization
Inventory management
Human-growing grind
Clunky combat
Reviews are predominantly enthusiastic, with players especially drawn to atmospheric exploration and the customizable mobile boat base, plus a deeply absorbing loop of crafting, salvaging, and discovery. The main reservations are crashes, performance problems, and lost progress, alongside frustrating inventory, combat, and progression systems. The slow pace, limited guidance, and unfinished Early Access state are rewarding for some players but tedious or confusing for others.
Positive Points
The flooded world is widely praised for its striking atmosphere, beautiful ocean and weather effects, environmental storytelling, and rewarding discoveries hidden throughout abandoned locations.Exploration feels open-ended and satisfying: players can choose where to sail, solve site-specific puzzles, salvage resources, restore facilities, and follow the story at their own pace.Turning the boat into a customizable mobile base is a major draw. Planning its layout, managing power and fuel, routing cables, and gradually improving its capabilities gives players a rewarding long-term project.The mix of crafting, resource management, light automation, puzzles, and occasional combat creates an unusually engaging gameplay loop, with many reviewers reporting dozens or hundreds of hours and frequent lost track of time.Many players appreciate the developers’ regular content updates, responsiveness to community feedback, and ongoing improvements, and feel the game offers strong value even while in Early Access.Negative Points
Technical reliability is inconsistent: reviews report frequent crashes, startup failures after updates, frame-rate drops, stuttering, and optimization problems that can make the game unplayable on some systems.Crashes and bugs are especially frustrating because saving can depend on terminals or infrequent autosaves; players have lost substantial progress, encountered corrupted saves, or become stuck due to broken quests and physics glitches.Inventory and interface friction recurs throughout the reviews. Managing heavy resources, sorting storage, carrying supplies between the boat and locations, and handling cable connections or overlapping controls can make routine tasks tedious.Some progression systems, especially growing humans and assigning professions, are described as confusing, poorly explained, time-consuming, and occasionally an unrewarding gate to the main story.Combat and vehicle handling are frequent complaints: swarming enemies can feel repetitive or annoying, while the gyrocopter and smaller vehicles are often described as difficult to control. Some players also find travel, scavenging, and later progression overly grindy.Mixed Points
The slow, relaxed pace and freedom to explore without pressure are a major appeal for many, but others find long boat journeys and repeated resource-gathering turn the experience into busywork.The game’s limited handholding encourages experimentation and discovery, but unclear tutorials, quest directions, item descriptions, and system explanations can leave players confused or reliant on online guides.The bleak ocean setting and tense dives create memorable immersion for some, while others report motion sickness, seasickness, or discomfort with deep and dark water.The mobile boat base’s restricted space encourages thoughtful planning, but many players want more room, additional ship upgrades, cargo options, or alternative vessels.Players broadly see a strong and distinctive Early Access game, but differ on whether the current amount of content and polish is enough to justify playing now or whether it is better to wait for the full release.Common Themes
Players repeatedly describe the central loop as sailing to an abandoned site, exploring and solving its problems, salvaging materials, and using them to improve the boat or restore infrastructure.The boat serves as both transportation and home base, making its layout, power supply, fuel use, storage, and upgrades a defining part of the experience.Reviews often compare the game to Subnautica, Raft, or Satisfactory while emphasizing its distinctive flooded-world setting and single-player focus.The atmospheric world, environmental clues, and story about a robot trying to preserve humanity are major reasons players become invested, though opinions on the writing and clarity vary.Early Access status shapes expectations: many reviewers praise frequent updates and developer engagement, while others emphasize unresolved bugs, technical issues, and unfinished or uneven late-game systems.A significant number of players would like co-op or multiplayer, even when they otherwise enjoy the solitary experience.Updated 10/20/2026, 12:02:26 AM UTC
