The WhatsNext verdict
If you want an engineering sandbox where designing and testing your own combat vehicles is the main event, this delivers unusual depth and freedom. Play it if you enjoy wrestling with complex systems, not if you want quick access to polished action.
What it does best
Build and make it yours
A deep, believable simulation
What might put you off
A learning cliff
Clunky campaign and RTS layer
The setup
What you are walking into
In From the Depths you can build and take first-person command of battleships, planes, submarines, space ships, hot air balloons and more! The game contains a wide range of single player content including: A creative mode allowing you to push your designs to the limit and ensure the total annihilation of your opponents. A strategic campaign waged over hundreds of islands against eight unique factions. A Story Mode where you can play missions as each of the eight factions - a fantastic mixture of strategy, design and wild battles! Defend your fleet against waves of enemy forces in a series of extremely tough challenges. Adventure mode where you start on a raft and must build up your fleet and travel a dangerous universe fighting or running from enemy fleets As well as a wide range of multiplayer content Design with your friends in co-op designer Play a range of adversarial modes Play the entire single player campaign together in co-op
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