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3 months ago
Barotrauma adds a whopping new submarine, plus more monsters to feed your friends to
There is now a too big monster in Barotrauma. It lurches at you from the depths, headbutting your submarine with its colossal and rotten flesh. This flesh then disintegrates, unleashing a horde of what I'm inclined to believe are human-sized parasitic worms. The scariest part is that your best friend might be egging the worms on. Barotrauma is a multiplayer game about piloting a submarine…
7 months ago
Feature: No pressure
The submarine is filling with seawater and nobody left alive is doing anything about it. The captain is calmly discussing the battery life of his headset radio with the ship’s doctor, who is standing still on the upper decks fiddling with his inventory. Two decks below them a ravenous trio of giant, shrimp-like sea creatures are burrowing from crew quarters to medical bay, flooding the…
9 months ago
Feature: Bathyschaphic bathos ahoy
Co-op space submarine game Barotrauma just hit Early Access, and it’s an absolute hoot
I’m pacing the dank, red-lit command deck, haggard even before the voyage starts, and worrying about my crew. They’re an untrained bunch; a mob of roustabouts I hired at the last waystation because I couldn’t afford anyone else. And in truth, I’ve got barely more experience than them - but I can’t let them sense my weakness.
10 months ago
16-player space submarine simulator Barotrauma plunges into early access next month
They say that before you agree to marry someone, you should go on a long trip with them. Perhaps all the way into space, in an airtight submarine plagued by maintenance issues and alien attacks. What I’m saying here is that if you and 15 friends can get together and survive the chaos of Barotrauma intact, it’s only logical that your next move is to…
3 years ago
Grab some pals, crowd into a submarine, and dive into an alien sea to die horribly inside a simulation inspired by Space Station 13. That's emergent sim-o-RPG Barotrauma [official site], which is currently available free in open alpha as developers Undertow Games work towards the full release. Delving into the icy waters of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons, different player classes with different responsibilities must…
