Pilot a heavy submersible through dark underwater caves. Reveal the route with sonar, recover lost cargo and carry it to the far lock. Fight currents, falling rock and curious predators while propulsion, sonar and electric defense drain the same battery.
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MinimumRecommendedSystemwindows 10/11—CPUintel core i3 from 2gen—GPUintegrated—RAM512 MB RAM—Download size256 MB available space—
About the game
About Bathyscaphe
You can only see so far. Your echo travels further.
Bathyscaphe is a single-player 2D underwater exploration game about deliberate movement, uncertain terrain and getting a fragile machine through a hostile place.
A human pilot is sealed inside your submersible. Ahead lies a dark passage. Somewhere near the seabed is a lost container. Find it, secure it and deliver it to the receiving lock at the far end of the sector.
See by sound
Send a sonar pulse into the dark and watch the cave take shape. The echo fades, leaving you to judge the next passage from what you remember. Cargo remains visible up close; at a distance, its position appears only briefly when your sonar finds it. A clearer picture costs power—and nearby predators can hear your signal.
Feel the weight
Thrust builds speed. Releasing the controls does not bring you to a stop. Brake before a bend, counter a current and leave room beneath the hull for your suspended cargo. Active stabilization helps you hold position, but it also draws from the battery.
Choose what the battery is for
Propulsion, sonar and close-range electric defense share one reserve. A discharge can drive nearby creatures away, but it will not clear a rockfall or pull you out of a bad approach. Make space, wait for a lull and commit when you are ready.
Fifteen routes into the dark
Travel from the Silent Shelf to hydrothermal passages, wreck fields, ice fissures and the Threshold of Silence. The nine advanced sectors squeeze the route through narrow bends and pulsing currents. Each mission has one cargo and one destination: there is no required trip back to collect a set of containers.
Optional expedition relays hold fragments of earlier dives. Stop to decode them, or keep moving. Their records never replace the delivery mission.
- 15 authored delivery routes with distinct terrain and hazards.
- Momentum-based piloting, active braking and a physical cargo footprint.
- Sonar discovery, fading echoes and a terrain-memory chart.
- Currents, rockfalls and reactive sea life.
- Close-range electric defense with a shared energy cost.
- 15 optional expedition records and a persistent journal.
- A green phosphor interface, animated machinery and an atmospheric soundtrack.
- Campaign checkpoints, sequential unlocks and replays of completed routes.
Players updated — · store data Sep 28, 05:15 AM UTC · source: SteamWebAPI
Steam does not list a price for Bathyscaphe at the moment.
Bathyscaphe has not been released yet. Planned release: October 15, 2026.
Minimum: windows 10/11, intel core i3 from 2gen, integrated, 512 MB RAM. The requirements card above compares minimum and recommended specs for every platform.
Steam lists 256 MB of free disk space for Bathyscaphe.
There are no Steam reviews for this game yet.
English is supported for the interface and subtitles, without full audio. In total, Steam lists 2 languages for Bathyscaphe, none of them with full audio.
No — Steam lists Bathyscaphe as a single-player game.
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On Steam, Bathyscaphe runs on Windows and macOS. No controller support listed.