WATERNAUT

by maximeg

co-authored: @thelink, @vincenthuet

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.42

Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.30

Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.12

Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.80

Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.72

Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.21

Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.52

In WATERNAUT, you take on the role of a galactic traveler wielding an ancient staff capable of detecting the levels of water that lies beneath the surface!

Follow the signals to find the best water spots and see what happens!

Make vegetation grow as you find water, and discover strange animals across a large variety of unique planets.

Discover and collect all the different living creatures to complete "*The Intergalactic Guide of Living Creatures*".

But be careful when trying to save a planet, oxygen can become a rare resource and the shovels are limited...

Made with love, joy, awesome people and not that much coffee... ♥

- Made with Unity
- Visuals with various bots
- Sounds & Musics by @Zoctor

Tools: LÖVE, Unity

Comments18

Ana Garcia21 Apr 2026, 05:42

Amazing aesthetics and care for the UI design. I loved how unique the game looks. I had fun playing it but I started to get tired as the exploration gets repetitive, and even though there's biome's differences, I felt that nothing made me more curious about exploring the planet. It was a great game for a such a short time of development. There's a lot of potential and I loved the core idea of it.

Caelestial21 Apr 2026, 10:30

Unique game, I LOVE IT! All feels alive

Rinzu21 Apr 2026, 10:32

The game is pretty fun, but even if we don’t dig based on the signal,water comes out anyway.

Saumchick21 Apr 2026, 10:58

This is a pretty interesting game, you just dig and look for new animals, it's just the thing to relax in the evening

JCoMcL21 Apr 2026, 11:01

It's fun and satisfying. It's impressive what people can do with AI nowadays, though it gets very repetitive when the only new things after the first level are more AI images.

Rum Ham21 Apr 2026, 15:23

The music and sound design was incredible, deffo a standout. The visuals were also really neat, a lot of polish in here which I wish we had time for 😅 - Collectables were also a very nice touch. Could maybe use a little balance to give some added challenge, perhaps having to defend your grown patches etc

LDJam user 021 Apr 2026, 15:24

the visuals are incoherent, there's a deep irony in using AI to make a game about using water to restore nature

21 Apr 2026, 15:24

the visuals are incoherent, there's a deep irony in using AI to make a game about using water to restore nature

Sarah22 Apr 2026, 01:24

I love the idea for this game, restoring nature is always fun. But it felt like I could just get water from digging anywhere, I'm not sure if that was intended or not but it was still fun to see everything come to life.

Well done!

frozenfire9222 Apr 2026, 02:04

Good concept for the theme! Keep on making games 😄

DmitriyCI22 Apr 2026, 09:36

This is a very cool game with a good concept. It gives off a kind of friendly vibe.

The music and sounds in the game fit the game very well. And the game also goes very well with the theme of Ludum.

Jiamu Zhao23 Apr 2026, 12:26

The core loop is incredibly satisfying.

Soul Grinder23 Apr 2026, 15:48

Really like this one, the music was a good fit and the graphics where nice to look at, especially when you paint the barren land with colourful forests. Simple concept but addictive gameplay, nice work!

Thos10son23 Apr 2026, 19:39

Super fun execution of the theme. the level progression is fun and collecting all those fun animals is a treat!

VenomousMouse23 Apr 2026, 19:53

Sweet and cozy game. Well done!

Zathnic30 Apr 2026, 00:18

This game does have a bit of a weird feel to it with the AI assets, but it is impressive how you put them together, making everything spawn dynamically when you dig out a spot! It did feel like there's not much of a difference between digging at a strong or a weak signal, so the game could use some better balancing here. But overall the foundation of the game is decent, and the music is nice as well

SinusQuell4 May 2026, 10:39

I saved this planet

BorodaOlen6 May 2026, 20:44

A great game with lots of diverse planets and collectible elements. It could use a few more animations, but overall that doesn’t get in the way of the gameplay.

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