Publisher Daedalic Entertainment and developer FakeFish and Undertow Games have announced the full release of their early access title Barotrauma. Barotrauma is a sci-fi submarine simulation game and it has been out in Early Access on PC via Steam since the summer of 2019. After a long and hectic journey through different Early Access stages, Barotrauma is now heading toward its full 1.0 release on March 13, 2023.
Check out the latest Barotrauma: Making of video shared by the developer featuring details of how the game was developed and what can we expect from the game post-launch:
The 1.0 release of Barotrauma will be filled with a lot of new features and tons of dedicated fans who have helped the developers shape up the final version of the game. At this point, the game is on track to entice even more brave submariners to dive into Europa’s depths with its huge variety of u-boats and missions, disgusting enemies, varied biomes, and hilarious ragdoll physics. Right before its 1.0 release, Barotrauma has managed to hit another major milestone of over 2.5 million players during its Early Access phase.
Barotrauma offers both solo gameplay along with a co-op mode where up to 16 players can play the game together and navigate the depths of Jupiter’s frozen moon Europa and fulfill various missions. Since its Early Access release, the developers have completely overhauled the campaign and tutorials, added new monsters, missions, and outposts, improved graphics and environments, implemented a scripted event system, and tons of new content and features. Most of these additions were based on fan feedback and community support.
As of now, the game has over 30,000 Discord members and 60,000 player-made entries on the Steam Workshop. To show their devotion to the game, the developers have also added a player-made submarine to the base game as part of a community competition. The full list of additions to Barotrauma since its Early Access release include:
- New graphics and environments
- Campaign overhaul
- Explorable outposts
- Wrecked submarines, abandoned outposts, and improved alien ruins
- Submarine upgrading and switching
- More and new monsters and missions
- New scripted event system
- Talent system for character progression
- Reworked tutorials
Fans are now looking forward to the full release of Barotrauma which is promising the addition of the rival factions and the ending of the campaign mode. Barotrauma’s lead developer, on the Barotrauma community comments:
Barotrauma has been a great community-assisted effort for almost a decade now, and we’re thrilled to be reaching 1.0 after all these years. We can’t wait to hear what our players think about the faction overhaul and the real ending of the campaign and look forward to making more updates even after this release.
Barotrauma is currently available on PC in Early Access and the full release of the game is slated for March 13, 2023. You can jump into the EA version of the game right now however if you want, you can simply add the game to your wishlist and wait for the full release coming next month.
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