FREEDIVER: Triton Down
FREEDIVER: Triton Down plunges you into a capsizing research ship, the Triton, where survival means outmaneuvering the water’s lethal surge.
As world-class diver Ren Tanaka, you must freedive through a sinking ship, overcome underwater chaos, and unlock your path to the surface, all while protecting your most precious resource: the breath in your lungs. Reworked for PlayStation, the FREEDIVER: Triton Down Extended Cut now boasts a deeper story, expanded gameplay areas, and all-new ways to explore them.
Underwater Adventure: Survive a harrowing nautical disaster as a world-class freediver
Fight for Breath: Oxygen is your only resource, the rising seawater your greatest adversary
Gestural Locomotion: Navigate virtual spaces with intuitive dive and swim movement
Interactive Puzzles: Stay calm, think fast, and use your environment to escape
Immersive Soundscapes: Handcrafted music and SFX from an award-winning audio team
Game Discussion
Steam User 63
2 Minute Video Review →
FREEDIVER is a swimming exploration and survival game. You swim by holding the trigger buttons and simply swinging your arms. The direction that you swing is the direction that you propel from. It feels very natural and easy to do, and it does become a bit of an arm workout.
You can also grab onto and propel yourself from solid surfaces. Similar to zero G space games where you move along by pushing on walls.
And just like the title says, you're Freediving. That means you're swimming without an air tank. So a constant challenge is finding air supplies before you run out of oxygen.
Along the way you'll also need to solve small puzzle challenges like getting past dangerous areas or opening tricky doors.
The voice acting is great, both the writing and performing are realistic as not overdone or cheesy
This game is very exciting to play. I felt visceral danger and peril trying to survive in this journey.
I beat it in under an hour. And even though it's a short game, I thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it.
Steam User 29
A LOT of heart went into this experience. It is short but sweet! Took me about 50 mins to complete. Certainly worth the 8.99 USD price tag. I thoroughly enjoyed this. I would recommend adjusting your comfort setting from the get go if you are an avid VR gamer. Not quite sure why this has made such an impression but I have walked away from this feeling very satisfied with the purchase and hats off to the developers for a job well done :) It is not often you feel content with a VR purchase in the current industry climate!
Steam User 6
Freediver: Triton Down....Hell, I don't know why anybody'd want to be a Navy diver.
Freediver: Triton Down is a tense, diving simulator where your trapped on a sinking ship trying to survive with nothing, but your wits and the random oxygen tanks scattered throughout the ship.
I'm giving this a game a MARGINAL recommendation. I enjoyed this game in concept more than what it actually is. I've always enjoyed those movies where a person or group of survivors is trapped and has to use their wits and skills to survive. This game tries to emulate that, but doesn't quite stick the landing.
First the good:
Its fun. Its really fun swimming around a big ship as it sinks with explosions going off and bodies everywhere. This is the type of game that puts you in a heart pounding reality you've only seen in the movies. This concept is great and I'm surpised more games aren't made likes this with underwater crashes and deepsea stuff. The only other game that might be compareable is Subnautica, but that games in a whole nother category.
The bad:
Freediver:Triton Down has a great concept, but fails to fully flesh it out. The game is only about an hour long. The game ends rather abruptly just when your starting to enjoy yourself. No epilogue, no explanation, just a cutscene and then immediately roll credits. The developers have stated that they didn't put in an epilogue cuz they wanted the player to kind of come up with their own ending. Personally I find that to be a crock when games do this. Where's my cathartic ending? Where's my reward for surviving?
Another issue is that the swimming mechanics feel kinda janky to me. You have to actually use swimming motions with your arms to move. This is fine in concept, but when I was playing I would get stuck in corners and walls quite frequently due to the movement not working right thus causing many unneeded deaths. I wish there was an option to use the control sticks to swim instead of the janky arm motions.
Overall I like the idea of this game enough that I enjoyed it, but I think there is a better game inside this concept and I hope someone else fleshes it out and makes that game.
Steam User 22
What a great vr experience. Visuals are stunning. Took just under an hour for me to finish and I am wanting more, so much more. Please oh please release more content soon!
Steam User 6
I beat the game in about 43 minutes (although just 50% of achievements), but I must admit it's one of the most creative and unique experiences I've had in all my 3 years of VR gaming.
I'd absolutely LOVE to see it become a full length game. It could definitely compete with games like Lone Echo.
Please, devs, if you're reading this - either add more content, or make a full length game expanding this story and gameplay mechanic.
Steam User 3
The game was very short, almost demo-level in shortness.
Still, the use of VR in water is very interesting.
I think this is worth playing just to get a sense of the claustrophobia.
Parts of this game were frustrating simply because of the oxygen constraints.
I just kept thinking that the protagonist is an idiot for insisting on escaping without a tank.
Wait for a sale to buy it. It's not long enough for the full price tag.
Steam User 12
Absolutely worth full price. Exceptional gaming value.
Very nice graphics, great voice acting, exciting immersion. I opted for no comfort vignetting and that made the game even better! A must own for any VR gamer!