Surviving the Abyss

64% positive of 1,050 Steam reviews

Released: 2024
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by Rocket Flair Studios. Published by Paradox Arc.

About the game

Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.

Tagged by players

Underwater
Colony Sim
City Builder
Alternate History
RTS
Base Building
Economy
Building
Post-apocalyptic
Difficult
Management
Survival

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Surviving the Abyss

64% positive of 1,050 Steam reviews

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Released: 2024
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by Rocket Flair Studios. Published by Paradox Arc.

About the game

Tagged by players

Underwater
Colony Sim
City Builder
Alternate History
RTS
Base Building
Economy
Building
Post-apocalyptic
Difficult
Management
Survival

What players say

Recommended
This game is effing great, it's a shame people trash it for stuff that's water under the bridge at this point-- I personally don't care about what happened in development, I'm just here to play games. And this is a fantastic and very unique city builder. City builders are my favorite genre and I've played them all, and Surviving the Abyss is a much needed breath of fresh air. The reasons: --It's as much a…
11 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Only at about the mid-game (or beginning of at least) and I am enjoying the game so far. edit/TLDR after beating the campaign: Game definitely has no replayability. It's not like Civ or Stellaris where there's multiple win cons; it's just a single all or nothing tech tree with the same final goal. Pick up on a good sale and don't expect to get more than a handful of runs out of it. Game's got good bones but no meat.…
18 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Another paradox game that was pushed out unfinished and left to die when they figured out they couldn't sell 400 dlc for it. Last early access I'll buy from them, avoid
1.2 h played when written. 2 found it helpful.
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