A story about escapism.
Reviews: Mixed — 65% — of 85 reviews
Released: 2018-07-05
Developer: lower third
Genres: Adventure, Indie
Platforms: Windows
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Linear underwater horror game about a search dive that quickly turns into fight for survival after an encounter with hellish creature.
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Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.
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You play as a man called Jacob Reeves. A man who has lost his reason to live. He throws himself into a blackness to end his misery, but instead of it being the end he wakes up without a memory of his life before.
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