The co-op sci-fi submarine sim leaves Steam Early Access featuring new and improved monsters, missions, systems, visuals and more!
After nearly four successful years in early access, the sci-fi submarine sim Barotrauma is ready to take on its biggest mission yet: full launch! The game will be officially available today on Steam beginning at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT. To celebrate this momentous occasion and take players into the depths of Europa, publisher Daedalic Entertainment and developers FakeFish and Undertow Games have released a new cinematic launch trailer teasing the horrors that await you and your crew beneath the waves.
Barotrauma is a sci-fi submarine simulator with both a single-player campaign as well as co-op modes with support for up to 16 players, who must navigate the depths of Jupiter’s frozen moon Europa and fulfill various missions to survive. Together with their passionate and active community, developers FakeFish and Undertow Games have greatly expanded and improved the game since its early access launch in summer 2019. They completely overhauled the campaign and tutorials, added new monsters, missions and outposts, improved graphics and environments, implemented a scripted event system, and much more.
All of this was only possible thanks to the feedback and support of more than 30,000 Discord members, as well as 60,000 player-made entries on Steam Workshop. To show the team’s devotion to their players and fanbase, the developers even added a player-made submarine to the base game as part of a community competition.
Barotrauma’s thrilling and often hilarious chaos is both fun to play and watch, thanks to procedurally generated levels, ridiculous ragdoll physics and full mod support. But beware: some threats are closer than you think. Multiplayer’s “traitor mode” option may randomly assign players as secret conspirators, complete with their own individual missions like assassination or sabotage.
