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As an AI in a diving suit, guide xenobiologist Ellery through an alien ocean, cataloguing life and tracing its mysteries.
Released 03 Apr 2020
Guide Ellery’s Dive
Scan Alien Life
Collect Ocean Samples
Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. What will you discover together?
Developed by Jump Over The Age · Published by Fellow Traveller
You are an AI embedded in Ellery’s malfunctioning diving suit, guiding the xenobiologist through the ocean of Gliese 677Cc. She arrived searching for her missing partner and found an abandoned base; together, you investigate the planet and its unfamiliar life.
Explore through a minimalist suit interface: scan your surroundings, interpret signals, set a heading, and travel between points of interest. Observe organisms, take samples, and gather information about the seafloor and its inhabitants.
Catalogue discoveries in Ellery’s research records, then return to base to study samples, read her notes, and talk with her. Upgrades and discoveries open new routes, while managing suit resources helps you continue the dive.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its atmospheric sound and music, evocative writing, and carefully imagined alien ecosystem. Many appreciate how the minimalist interface and descriptions encourage them to picture the ocean, and find the slow exploration and scientific cataloguing absorbing. Others find the reading-heavy pace and repeated navigation actions tedious, so its distinctive approach does not suit everyone.
a xenobiologist who discovers extraterrestrial life while searching for her missing partner.
When Ellery is called to planet Gliese 677Cc by Minae Nomura, only to arrive at an abandoned base, she finds herself adrift in an ocean of secrets, with little more than a malfunctioning diving suit and a strange AI to guide her. You are this AI.
Guide Ellery—and keep her safe—as you dive deeper and explore an underwater alien landscape. The planet’s unique life, and its dark history, are yours to uncover and the bond between you and Ellery will be tested by the secrets you learn. Through this shifting narrative, In Other Waters asks questions about the nature of “natural” and “artificial” life, and investigates what it means to be a human in an epoch of extreme environmental destruction. For life to continue, it must change.
Freely dive into an expansive section of seafloor, from shimmering reefs to inky depths. Unlock upgrades and make discoveries that allow you to open up new paths, uncovering strange creatures and environments as you do.
Navigate an elegant, intuitive UI via gamepad or mouse controls. Interpret signals, set headings, and map the ocean through experimentation and intuition.
Discover and catalogue species through observation, scanning, taking samples, and interacting with alien life. Read Ellery’s notes, look at her sketches, and help her classify an entirely new ecosystem.
Choose whether to study creatures, investigate secrets or dive new areas, then come back to your base to study samples in the lab, chat to Ellery or read her journals to understand more about this world.
Through limited communication learn more about the person whose suit you inhabit, and help guide her towards a terrible truth. What you experience together will bring you closer.
Jump Over the Age is a one-person game development studio founded by Gareth Damian Martin (they/them). Gareth is the winner of GDCA and Indiecade awards, and has been nominated for a Games Award, multiple IGF Awards, a GDC Award, and four BAFTAs. They have been named both “An accomplished world-builder” (Edge Magazine) and “one of the most exciting indie talents around” (Eurogamer).
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 74/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
