From the Depths

From the Depths lets you build and command vehicles and structures, then use them in single-player and multiplayer battles. You can take first-person command of battleships, planes, submarines, spaceships, hot air balloons and more, designing fleets, fortresses and other structures from over 1,000 unique components. The game also includes 38 components for building missiles, torpedoes, depth charges and bombs, and 34 components for cannon shells.

Build and engineer

You can equip your designs with cannons, lasers, mines, bombs, missiles, torpedoes, propellers, rudders, jet engines, wings, hydrofoils, hot air balloons, anchors, blueprint spawners, repair bots, air pumps and automated control blocks, among other parts. The physics respond to construction and damage: adding or destroying blocks affects a vehicle’s function, physics and control, while drag, inertia tensors, buoyancy and sealed compartments update to reflect its design and damage.

Many components can be assembled and customized:

• Weapons: Combine warheads, fuses, IR seekers, laser beam riders, laser designators, thrusters, navigation algorithms, sonar seekers, buoyancy compartments and propellers to make missiles, bombs, depth charges and torpedoes. Build cannons from four barrel types and lengths, auto-loaders, warheads, ammo boxes and auxiliary components, from AA cannons to howitzers.
• AI: Slot AI cards into motherboard blocks connected to an AI mainframe. Radar detection, laser detection and tracking, and local weapon controllers can give AI partial or full control, for designs such as AI-controlled aircraft carriers and battery-powered drones.
• Engines: Build custom engines from crankshafts, cylinders, carburetors, superchargers, exhausts and fuel injectors. Electric engines, generators and chargers are also available for backup power supplies and drones.
• Other systems: Similar customization systems cover anti-vehicle and anti-missile lasers, drills, Particle Cannons and jet engines.

Single-player modes

The single-player content includes several ways to use your designs:

• Creative mode: Test designs and take on opponents.
• Strategic campaign: Fight across hundreds of islands against eight unique factions.
• Story Mode: Play action-oriented missions focused on upgrading a design to fit a role.
• Adventure mode: Start on a raft, build up your fleet and travel through a dangerous universe, fighting or fleeing enemy fleets.

Multiplayer

You can design with friends in co-op designer, play adversarial modes or take on the entire single-player campaign together in co-op. The game also includes other campaigns, co-op campaigns, missions and adventures for using your designs.

Create and share

The planet editor lets you create planets, campaigns, missions and multiplayer maps, and an integrated modding interface lets you add mods. Community-organized challenges and blueprint sharing provide ways to exchange designs.