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Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.
From the Depths is a building, naval combat and sandbox game
developed and published by Brilliant Skies Ltd..
Released on November 06th 2020 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux
in 4 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Russian and Japanese.
It has received 11,863 reviews of which 10,558 were positive and 1,305 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Gamivo.
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Windows
- OS: Windows10
- Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.0 GHz (or AMD equivalent)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT / ATI Radeon HD 3870 / Intel HD Graphics 4000
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX® compatible on-board
- Additional Notes: Steam connection required to play the game
MacOS
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Steam connection required to play the game
Linux
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Steam connection required to play the game
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List of required items to play the game: - Physics Degree - Engineering Degree - Hydrodynamics Degree - Aeronautics Degree - Theoretical Physics Degree - Computer Science Degree - 200 hours to understand basic mechanics (with degrees)
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~ DIFFICULTY ~ 🔲 My 90 year old grandma could play it 🔲 Easy 🔲 Normal ✅ Hard 🔲 Dark Souls ~ GRAPHICS ~ 🔲 MS Paint 🔲 Bad 🔲 Meh ✅ Graphics dont matter in this game 🔲 Good 🔲 Beautiful ~ MUSIC ~ 🔲 Bad 🔲 Not special ✅ Good 🔲 Eargasm ~ STORY ~ 🔲 This game has no story 🔲 Like playing Temple Runners for the story ✅ It's there for the people who want it 🔲 Well written 🔲 Epic story ~ PRICE ~ 🔲 Free ✅ Underpriced 🔲 Perfect Price 🔲 Could be cheaper 🔲 Overpriced 🔲 Complete waste of money ~ REQUIREMENTS ~ 🔲 You can run it on a microwave ✅ Average 🔲 High end 🔲 NASA computer ~ LENGTH ~ 🔲 Very Short (0 - 3 hours) 🔲 Short (3 - 15 hours) 🔲 Average (15-50 hours) 🔲 Long (50-90 hours) 🔲 Extremely long (90-110 hours) ✅ No ending ~ FUN ~ 🔲 I'd rather watch paint dry 🔲 Hard to enjoy 🔲 Repetitive 🔲 Actually pretty amusing ✅ Ride of your life ~ REPLAYABILITY~ 🔲 It's a one-time experience 🔲 Only for achievements 🔲 If you wait a few months/years 🔲 Definitely ✅ Infinitely replayable ~ WORTH BUYING ~ 🔲 No 🔲 Wait for sale ✅ Yes ---------------- From the Depths offers a remarkably ambitious blend of engineering, strategy, and open-ended creativity that sets it apart from more conventional titles. Its vast sandbox encourages experimentation, allowing players to construct elaborate vehicles and explore a dynamic world shaped by physics and ingenuity. The experience carries a sense of scale and possibility that rewards patience and curiosity. While demanding at times, the game’s depth provides a stimulating foundation for dedicated players. The story functions mainly as a framework for the broader creative and strategic systems, presenting a series of factions and conflicts that add context to the building and combat. Each faction displays distinct technological identities, giving campaigns a sense of flavour and progression. Narrative details are light but effective enough to motivate engagement with the game’s larger systems. This approach suits the title’s focus on player-driven creation and exploration. Gameplay sits at the heart of the experience, driven by an intricate construction system that invites both creativity and meticulous planning. Every component, from propulsion to armour, contributes meaningfully to vehicle performance, leading to thoughtful experimentation. The combat system, powered by detailed physics, makes every encounter feel grounded and reactive. Though the learning curve can be steep, the payoff is substantial once systems begin to click. Visually, the game adopts a functional aesthetic that emphasises clarity and mechanical detail over pure spectacle. Water effects and explosions provide satisfying feedback during battles, adding a sense of impact to major engagements. The modular block-based building system gives creations a tangible, engineered feel, even if the overall presentation is less polished than some modern titles. This practical style serves the game’s mechanical focus well. Overall, From the Depths delivers a deep and rewarding experience for players who enjoy creativity, engineering, and large-scale strategy. Its demanding systems are balanced by the freedom to design and refine increasingly complex machines. While the visuals and narrative take a back seat to mechanics, the game succeeds through its ambition and the satisfaction it offers to those willing to engage with its complexity. From the Depths gets a 7/10. For more reviews check my Steam profile Hope you enjoyed my review, god bless you
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A quick warning to those that watched a video from a streamer playing this game and decided to try this game. It is not easy to get into. The learning curve is not a curve, but a sheer cliff with few handholds and a whole host of turrets preventing you from entering. The plethora of tutorials in the game is mind-boggling, but this is not enough in many cases and additional community made tutorials are needed and can be found on youtube. Vehicles you build may not work as intended, your first planes will nose dive or shoot into the sky. The intended control scheme is also extremely weird at first. It takes a lot of effort to make a single ship or plane and a great deal of time at first. This game requires a lot of time and effort. Be aware of this before purchasing. However, if you can get into this game, it is great. The level of customization and complexity that can be made in each vehicle is amazing. Systems upon systems. Armor functions in a semi-realistic sense instead of straight HP or block HP. Weapons are built from the ground up and can made for whatever scenario you have envisioned (Cannon with ROF and specific round schemes, Missiles can be specifically programmed). Planes require control surfaces and factor mass, drag, and lift. AI behaviors can also be fine tuned by the AI menu or via code blocks in AI breadboards. The satisfaction at having created a ship, tested each system, and finally see the whole ship at work destroying an enemy is incredible.
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This is a fantastic game, but it is not a fantastic game for everyone. If you can get past the VERY steep learning curve, you gain access to a remarkably in depth building game with visually striking combat and a huge variety of available play styles. There are ways to play this game without building your own creations from the ground up, which allows one to play without having to learn all the details and nuances of the games systems, so if you want to just form fleets with the games built in crafts, modify those crafts, and watch cool battles in the campaign or sandbox, that is doable. To get the most out of this game takes a lot of learning, and unfortunately, the games own guidance is often convoluted and not entirely helpful. Youtube tutorials and Reddit threads are essentially part of learning this game. I cannot stress enough that this game is not intuitive, and requires some dedication to really get the hang of. However, once you do get the hang of it, the game is truly impressive. You can build tanks, bunkers, submarines, boats, hovercrafts, airplanes, spaceships, and anything in between. you can then customize the fine details of your creation's propulsion, weapon systems, and AI mainframe behavior. You can even make virtual breadboard circuits to control how all the different parts of your creations interact. If you don't mind (or even enjoy) taking the time to learn the games complex systems, it is remarkably rewarding. the depth of customization and fine tuning are immense, as well as the 'mimic' system to make your creations look exactly how you want. As of writing this, I'm approaching 1,000 hours with this game, and I still have plenty to learn and experiment with.
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This game is the ultimate time sink. At first it seems silly and simple, after all its only a bunch of 1m blocks. Like Minecraft! Oh dear how wrong that initial impression is. You start with the tutorials, which have certainly gotten better over the years. They are helpful, but leave you wanting more. So you turn to the internet. Reddit is helpful, then you find the thousands of hours of Youtube videos and realize how deep the rabbit hole goes. After binging about a days worth of online videos, you get back on the game and try to build something. You realize it doesn't work despite doing what you saw in the video. You go back to the video, and see that it was from 2021. Its all outdated. The devs ARE active. This game is receiving constant updates and fixes. It has been getting those fixes constantly for YEARS, and the devs have given no indication of slowing down or stopping. In 2024 alone they introduced two new weapons systems, a ton of new blocks, fixed a bunch of bugs, updated nearly every campaign ship and tank, and changed a handful of game mechanics for the better. Great devs. Okay, you found a tutorial from 2024, watch it, and jump back in game. You want to create a small boat. Yay! You spend what feels like days creating the most intricate tool of insurgency war ever devised by a sole rambot. You figure this piece of engineering excellence can take over the world. You jump straight into a campaign run, easy mode of course, lets not too ahead of ourselves. You realize you have no idea how to run a campaign, so you go watch a borderwise video on it. Come back, set up a supply line and make your first boat from earlier. An enemy! Its a tiny little Deep Water Guard craft. Essentially a little wooden raft with a couple missiles. You obliterate it with ease. See, you were right. This game isn't as hard as people say. Oh look, another enemy! A duster? Sounds easy. Wait, its a plane. You forgot any AA and your missiles can't turn enough. You Quickly slap on a simple weapon and get a lucky hit. Woah, that was close. Uh oh, another enemy. He's invading! The audacity! Its a Wanda? Fairly Odd name. Lets fight, bring it on! Wait, that's a big shell. OH NO! He one shot me? WTF? You rage quit. Twp days later you come back and start building a battleship, with a Lathrix video playing in the background. Yeah, this game is great. Huge learning curves and opportunities. I have over 1,100 hours as of this review, and have much to learn. As the great psychedelic frog put it, the game has a learning curve "like a cliff, on fire, and covered in bears." Beware that warning, and the sinkhole that is this game and its numerous overlapping mechanics. Yes, I absolutely adore and recommend this game to anyone that likes building games of any sort. Embrace the first 5-10 hours of confusion and learning suck. It gets better, then worse, then it becomes like drugs. After a hundred hours or so, you discover decorations and mimics, then time begins to delete itself. Get this game. It good.
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From the Depths is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
From the Depths is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.50€ on Steam.
From the Depths received 10,558 positive votes out of a total of 11,863 achieving a rating of 8.67.
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From the Depths was developed and published by Brilliant Skies Ltd..
From the Depths is playable and fully supported on Windows.
From the Depths is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
From the Depths is playable and fully supported on Linux.
From the Depths offers both single-player and multi-player modes.
From the Depths offers both Co-op and PvP modes.
There are 2 DLCs available for From the Depths. Explore additional content available for From the Depths on Steam.
From the Depths is fully integrated with Steam Workshop. Visit Steam Workshop.
From the Depths does not support Steam Remote Play.
From the Depths is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
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Developer
Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Publisher
Brilliant Skies Ltd.
Release
06 Nov 2020
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