Deep Despair

Deep Despair is a retro-styled survival sandbox set in a world divided into four levels: the upper world, caves, caves with rivers and caves with lava. Each level has a descent to the next, where you can find and extract more valuable resources. Dungeons also contain abandoned mines. You explore freely, gather resources and choose the order of your actions as you craft, build, dig, grow crops, hunt and survive. The game includes over 100 units of content and large worlds to explore.

Survive day and night

Time of day changes dynamically. Night is dangerous for a poorly developed character, so you need to build a house in time to shelter in. You gather resources for food, weapons and shelter, and manage an advanced hunger system.

Food includes meat, potatoes, bread and berries, each with a different level of satiety. Raw food reduces hunger but does not provide satiety, so cooked food is preferable. Health regenerates automatically when satiety is above 80%. At 50% satiety or less, the character moves slowly; when completely hungry, the character loses health until death.

Gather and craft

To obtain usable wood, you chop down a tree, place the fallen logs on the ground and chop them again with an axe. The logs then yield units of wood suitable for crafting. You can also gather resources, craft items and construct buildings.

Cook over a bonfire

You assemble a bonfire from sticks and light it with flint. It can cook meat and potatoes: place raw food in the fire and collect it when its icon changes to show it is ready. The bonfire goes out over time, so you need to keep it burning with brushwood (sticks). You can extinguish it with a watering can or a bucket of water, or break it apart with any tool to recover sticks.

Grow crops

You can cultivate wheat and potatoes. Wheat seeds come from tall grass or from using a hoe on a grass block. Digging soil may yield potatoes or fertilizer, and both can also be found in mine chests.

To plant crops, loosen the soil with a hoe and place the seeds. Crops grow only in moist soil: nearby water wets it automatically, or you can water it with a filled watering can. Soil dries over time and needs watering again. Fertilizer or bone meal doubles crop growth.