A Tale of Silent Depths
Crit42 Studio · 2026 · CRPG, Traditional Roguelike, Underwater, Submarine, Exploration
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Positive84% · 19
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About A Tale of Silent Depths
Generations after the apocalypse, humanity survives inside colossal Arks: floating societies sealed in steel. You are an Ark captain: you choose where to sail, who to trust, what to hunt, and what secrets to leave buried. The ocean is procedurally generated and full of ruins, routes, and threats, some human, some not. The world has drowned, and humanity clings to survival in the crushing dark. In A Tale of Silent Depths, you are the Captain of an Ark: a massive, mobile submarine base that is your home, your fortress, and your last negotiating chip in a dead ocean.Command your Ark across a sprawling open-ocean sandbox where pressure is just a number and safety is a lie. Explore the depths to harvest scarce resources, salvage forgotten wrecks, and dive into ancient ruins for relics and blueprints that can change the balance of power. Build and customize a fleet of drones, who will be your frontline and combat support, then deploy them in tense turn-based tactical battles against pirates, sea-creatures, rival Arks… and things that were never meant to surface.This is a world that reacts to you. Trade to grow rich, raid to take what you need, uncover secrets no one wants found, or gamble everything chasing horrors beyond comprehension, because sometimes the deep doesn’t just hide monsters. Sometimes it remembers you. Every decision reshapes your resources, your relationships, and the risks waiting out in the dark.In A Tale of Silent Depths, you’re free to be a trader, an archaeologist, a pirate... or something in between. The only rule is simple:Survive.
Explore an enormous, procedurally generated open world
Chart a living ocean that changes every run: shifting routes, new points of interest, hidden wrecks, sunken ruins, and dangerous territories controlled by pirates and rival Arks. Push deeper for rarer salvage and stranger discoveries: the most valuable secrets are rarely found in safe waters.Outthink your enemies in complex turn-based tactical battles
Every fight is a puzzle under pressure. Positioning, range, line-of-sight, terrain hazards, status effects, and limited resources all matter. Decide when to commit, when to retreat, and when to gamble. One bad engagement can cost drones, supplies... or the Ark itself.Roguelike progression with endless build variety
No two captains survive the same way. Each run offers a wealth of abilities, upgrades, equipment, and synergies, letting you craft specialized drone squads, captain loadouts, and Ark systems. Experiment with high-risk glass cannons, tanky control builds, stealthy scavengers, support-focused fleets, or weird hybrid strategies that only make sense when the right parts align.A dangerous bestiary with unique behaviors and skills
The Ocean isn’t just full of enemies: it’s full of problems. Predators that stalk you across zones, pirates that adapt to your tactics, and deep-sea anomalies that punish predictable play. Learn patterns, identify threats, counter their strengths, and exploit their weaknesses. Or become another silent wreck on the seafloor.Rich lore woven into exploration and survival
Piece together the truth behind the flood and what came after through logs, relics, factions, ruins, and whispered rumors traded in the dark. The deeper you go, the more the world’s history (and its contradictions) surface. Not everything down there is dead, and not every truth is safe to uncover.What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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A Tale of Silent Depths impresses players with its immersive underwater exploration, atmospheric pixel art, and engaging combat that creates tense, varied runs. However, the game suffers from notable bugs affecting settings and quest persistence, lacks sufficient content and direction to sustain engagement, and feels sparse with an underdeveloped world that leaves some players confused about what to do beyond basic exploration and combat.
Buggy (annoying not game breaking), poor performance (startup), missing quality of life, empty game world. I also expect to lose at some point in a roguelike. Bugs: - Settings not persisted. Set master volume to 1% (volume is quiet). Exit game, open game (volume is loud). Low volume is applied on entering settings menu (listed fixed 1.0.3). - Quests not persisted. Start a new game, ask smiley hat man where to find pirates (get entry "after the merritts"). Exit to menu, continue game. Journal is now empty (listed fixed 1.0.3). - Item duplication. In the inventory screen left click and drag an item to the hot bar (but do not release left mouse). Right click while holding left mouse (item is added to hotbar, but not removed from inventory) - Can't learn new recepies? Left/Right clicking in inventory does nothing, puting on my hotbar does not give a use option. This is how I found the item duplication, moving that stupid recepie around trying to find a place to use/learn it. Performance: - Loading AND closing the game takes a literal minute+ (on my computer). Due to the local LLM? I get that driving some logic with an LLM is nifty, but my first experience with this game was wonderin…12 found this helpful
I’ve been playing A Tale of Silent Depths for a while and I gotta say, I ended up way more hooked than I expected. The immersion in this game is really, really good. There’s something about exploring this huge underwater world that just pulls you in. I legit kept saying "okay, one more area" and then suddnenly an hour had passed lol. The map feels surprisingly big and rewarding to explore, and finding weird places, routes and little discovereis gave me that old-school sense of adventure that a lot of games kinda miss these days. The game is built around exploration in a large procedural ocean setting. The pixelart is also pretty awsome and fits the atmophere perfectly. It has this moody underwater vibe where the visuals and the setting work really well together. Nothing feels out of place and the whole thing has a cool identity. Some moments felt weirdly relaxing and creepy at the same time, which is kinda hard to pull off. I had a lot of fun with it and honestly I think this game deservs more attention. Definitely recomend it if you enjoy exploration and getting immersed in a world.9 found this helpful
This game is genuinely interesting and has a lot of potential but for now it feels a bit like early access. I explored around for about an hour and couldn’t find anything to do other than fight tiny but mighty sea creatures and combat is difficult. I met some people in the very beginning but I couldn’t tell what they were and I didn’t get a quest from them after chatting so it was a bit confusing. The town didn’t really look like a town or anything but a gathering of rocks with a statue. Tentative thumbs up for the amount of potential this has and its design and theoretically will be super fun if more gets added to the map. For now it feels empty. Sunless Sea is one of my favorite games ever and I was hoping this would be similar. Steam deck players - it’s possible but not great. The text boxes are cut off and you have to update the AI settings to get it to run. I’m wondering now if that has anything to do with how empty it felt.6 found this helpful
im geniully confused. has potential, but lacking direction in any way. its point and click supplies collector with elements of drone and equipment fights. maybe i put not enough time to play it, but after 2 hrs im not sucked into it. its not time wasted but also not time worth spending. also found few anoying bugs like hud dissapearting duriong fights, music is good but monotoneus.2 found this helpful
Did not expect to get this sucked in. You're captaining a sub in a dead ocean and every dive feels tense in the best way. Combat actually makes you think, no two runs play the same. Massive game from a small studio. Get it.1 found this helpful
Weird in a good way. A little resource management, a little tactical grid based combat, a little cosmic horror. Turns out the bottom of the ocean is cold. Half the ♥♥♥♥ wants to kill you and the other half wants to scam you out of your hard earned supplies (and then kill you after). There is some pretty fun and varied progression and the soundtrack fits really well and imerses you into the vibe. Pretty solid game, well worth the price.1 found this helpful
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