Barotrauma
WELCOME TO EUROPA
Barotrauma is a 2D co-op survival horror submarine simulator, inspired by games like FTL: Faster Than Light, Rimworld, Dwarf Fortress and Space Station 13. It’s a Sci-Fi game that combines ragdoll physics and alien sea monsters with teamwork and existential fear.
EMBRACE THE ABYSS
In the not too distant future, humanity has fled to Jupiter’s moon. With its irradiated icy surface, life can only be found in the ocean below. Travel through a punishing underwater environment and make friends or rivals of the four factions of the world. Discover what lies in the depths of Europa.
HELP YOUR CREW SUCCEED, OR MAKE SURE NO ONE DOES
There are as many ways to enjoy Barotrauma as there are ways to die in it. Work together with your crew to achieve your goals, or brace for betrayal when you have a traitor on board. Play with friends, strangers, or your worst enemies.
EXPLORE, OPERATE, COMMUNICATE
Navigate underwater, complete missions for the last remnants of humankind, explore the ruins of an alien civilization, flee or fight monsters. Operate complex on-board systems and devices like the sonar, nuclear reactor, weapons, engines and pumps. Communication is key!
EXPERIMENT, CRAFT, CREATE
Master the complex on-board wiring and the comprehensive crafting and medical systems. Create your own submarines and monsters with built-in editors to rival the standard ones. Even tap directly into our source code and mod away.
Features
- Play with up to 16 players on board a submarine. Supplement your player count with bots as needed in either singleplayer or multiplayer game modes.
- 6 player classes with different skills and tasks: Captain, Engineer, Mechanic, Medic, Security officer and Assistant.
- Talent system: Gain experience and unlock talents to improve your character. Each class has three specialization talent trees to customize your playstyle.
- Faction and reputation mechanics: Choose who to ally with, help their cause, reap the benefits or suffer the consequences.
- Procedurally generated world and missions with multiple game modes for virtually endless replayability.
- Comprehensive crafting system: gather materials, craft equipment, weapons, medicines and more to help your crew survive on Europa.
- Built-in Submarine, Character and Procedural Animation editors. Share and discover mods directly via Steam Workshop.
- Most game data exposed in .xml and the game’s source code publicly available on GitHub for modding.
Steam User 169
Tbh i've played the game illegaly for more than 1000hr+ and just now able to paid the game after my first job, VERY RECOMENDED!
Steam User 110
this game has been and continues to be a major contributor to my various academic failings
Steam User 50
One of the games that make me wait for the action, but when the action comes I beg that it stops
Steam User 68
Played this game with two buddies of mine. We get a mission to clear out a nest of crawlers. Before we can even ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ leave the station, a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CLOWN attacks us and nearly kills one of my friends. So, to save his life, my other friend injects him with alien blood. This causes him to start hallucinating fires all over the ship. He just walks through them since, y'know, they're not real. But the thing is, he was carrying nitroglycerin on him for some reason. And one of the fires turns out to be real. So there goes half the ship because he turned himself into a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ walking bomb. And then after that me and the other guy die because we cant get back in the ship because its on fire.
But finally, after reloading, we go to clear out the crawler nest. No issues, they clear it out just fine and i made sure the ship stayed intact. I was the mechanic, after all. On the way to the next outpost it does NOT go fine. A pack of mudraptors attack us, and both my friends instantly die to water pressure and vicious raptors. Leaving me, a lowly mechanic, the last one alive on the sub. Bad enough, right? It got worse.
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ CHTULU HIMSELF ATTACKS ME. A giant, tentacled, 20-eyed sea monster i can only describe as lovecrafitan descends upon the sub and breaks damn near everything. So this has to be the lowest point, yea?
The sub then lands ON AN ACTIVE ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ VOLCANO. So now the ship is infested with raptors, being attacked by an elder god, AND being melted by ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ pompeii.
I tried my best, and managed to stay alive for about 20 minutes by injecting myself with enough fentanyl to kill an elephant and unloading enough ordinance to level a small town. Unfortunately, i eventually ran out of fent and died.
10/10 game, would die to horrid eldritch horrors again.
Steam User 62
The trailers don't do this justice. Give it a try. There is a reason it's so highly rated, but they are terrible at advertising exactly what it is that makes this game so special. You won't regret trying it.
Steam User 78
> Built unstable nuclear bomb
> Put that in a railgun
> We forgot about it
> After sometime, the bomb exploded by itself after degrading
> We were fighting 2 Murlocks when this happened
> The submarine started falling and stopped on top of a volcano
> Everybody just died at the end.
> I love this game.
Steam User 83
Truly a game for the autistic. Wether it be roleplay or tryhard sweating this game delivers.
Around 200h in and half of it is just me designing submarines like a true chud.
11/10 would reccomend