Deepest Dark

by skrelevsky

co-authored: @gromkiymatuk, @luluuu, @joyrider, @mihail, @q-annette

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.60

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.37

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.48

Theme★★★★★★★★★★4.40

Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.33

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.64

Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.27

Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.47

You are a diver, lost in the crushing silence of an ancient underwater cave.

Your only hope: reach the rescue sub before the creatures of the deep reach you.

Deepest Dark is a tense underwater exploration game where every flicker of your light matters. Navigate tight cave systems, manage limited oxygen and light, and stay hidden from lurking horrors that patrol the depths.

🔦 Atmospheric exploration with minimal UI

💀 Avoid deadly monsters by using shadows and silence

🐚 Find your path through a maze of flooded tunnels

🚨 Escape before your oxygen – or your sanity – runs out

Can you survive the deepest dark?

Tags: #ludum-dare--57

Genres: survival

Tools: Unity

Comments7

maximumoverkilt8 Apr 2025, 01:11

Atmospheric. I really dig the terrain generation if it's procedural. Definitely could have benefitted from some spooky music even if you didn't make it.

LDJam user 3790948 Apr 2025, 01:14

The modd and atmosphere for Depths is spot on. The flashlight mechanic was cool as well, added to the mood.

Just needed some underwater spooky music to up the tension.

GRUZDID9 Apr 2025, 11:30

Nice small game!
i really like how game looks! Gameplay is very nice
Good job!

jtap9 Apr 2025, 15:19

Great game, beautifully made, atmospheric, creepy creature. I just missed the music.
Thanks for this game!

AToxigner10 Apr 2025, 08:32

Great art design! You can definitely tell from your credit list that you have a lot of talented artists on the team, haha. The sound design is also really well done, though some of the sound effects seem a bit too loud to me. Using UI text for level guidance at the start was a smart idea, but the text might be a little too much. Also, I ran into a small bug—after opening the credit list, I couldn't close the UI page to return to the main menu. Overall, it's a fantastic game! Regardless, well done!

Fupi10 Apr 2025, 17:07

Beautiful game! The creatures definitely feel scary, makes me shiver bvrbvr!! I died a bunch of times, so many that I considered giving up, but I did manage to finish the game! I'm just not really sure what I did that made me succeed the last time :sweat_smile: I just decided to go through the whole maze with my light off and beg that the creatures didn't find me while I was unprotected, which felt more like luck. Nevertheless, if you wanted to spook me you did a great job lol!

Slyz11 Apr 2025, 11:13

Hey ! Quite a good game ! And good controls, camera movement and level design. I think it would have been nice to have an oxygen bar or something to see which amount of oxygen you have left. Appart from that it's nice :)

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