We’re all looking for a little escape right now. Life can be quite stressful and the last few years have been nothing but challenging. So sometimes you don’t want to end your day with a run-and-gun shooter or a stressful survival game. You just want to relax.
What could be nicer than frolicking on the rolling waves in a boat?
Submerged: Hidden Depths is all about giving you that feeling of relaxation and escape. the submerged Games offer you a relaxed world to explore at your own pace.
Set in a huge flooded city, you guide siblings Miku and Taku as they search for buildings to climb, problems to solve, and the answer to a very deep puzzle. Yes, there are puzzles, but the mechanics are designed to be simple enough that they don’t tax your brain too much – instead you can focus on making your own way through the ruins and unraveling the story that guides you find them everywhere.
The city itself has its own beauty. There are sunsets and rainstorms; the glow of the moon on the water at midnight; the thrill of distant thunder and the omnipresent and soothing roar of the ocean. Mysterious wildlife to approach and discover. If you find a view particularly pretty, you can even use the game’s photo mode to take a snap.
Submerged: Hidden Depths also lets you scratch the collector’s itch, with objects hidden throughout; hanging from the sides of skyscrapers, tucked away in one of the many nooks and crannies of abandoned villages, or bubbling up beneath the ocean. There’s a lot to explore and there’s no time limit to rush you through the experience.
We hope Submerged: Hidden Depths will help you forget your worries, even for a little bit. You deserve this break.
Submerged: Hidden Depths
Uppercut Games Pty Ltd
☆☆☆☆☆ 2
★★★★★
$29.99
A sunken city, crumbling skyscraper spiers standing stubbornly above the waves. Abandoned villages now inhabited by mysterious creatures. And beneath the surging ocean, a tortured, angry presence awaits. Submerged: Hidden Depths is a non-combat third-person adventure set in the sunken ruins of a beautiful world. Take on the role of Miku and Taku – one cursed with a mysterious power that she wants to use forever, the other determined not to let it tear them apart. Boat across calm waters and storm-tossed white caps, explore and scale the remains of a once towering city and search the buildings for the seeds of its salvation.
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