In Other Waters, a "unique narrative adventure", will be heading to Nintendo Switch on 3rd April, it has been confirmed.
The game puts players in the shoes of AI assistant, Ellery Vas, revealing the mysteries of the turquoise depths of an alien ocean. She's a Xenobiologist (which is someone who essentially studies aliens, according to a hasty Google search) who is searching for her missing partner on the planet Gliese 677Cc.
Equipped with a malfunctioning dive suit possessed by a strange AI unit, Ellery discovers extraterrestrial life and an ocean full of secrets. A press release for the game says that "In Other Waters is like the ASMR of video games", allowing you to join Ellery on a journey of learning and discovery. Here's a feature list:
- Explore an Alien Ocean: 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.
- See the World Through an AI Lens: Navigate an elegant, intuitive UI via touch or mouse controls. Interpret signals, set headings, and map the ocean through experimentation and intuition.
- Become a Xenobiologist: 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.
- Plan Your Dives: 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.
- Build a Lasting Relationship: 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.
Pre-orders for the game actually start today, with a 10% discount available from now until 10th April. From then, it will return to its normal price of $14.99.
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ASMR = Autonomous sensory meridian response, so that no one else needs to wonder.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_sensory_meridian_response
Cool game concept.
ASMR=Another Super Metroid Remake
ASMR darling on youtube is very cool massive fan, it works for me x x x x x x x
If it's anything like Abzû then it's worth playing.
It does give the same vides as that Wii diving game. Can't remember the name.
EDIT: Endless Ocean was the name thanks to nintendolifers. Would be nice to have a coop/online functionality too.
@Bomberman64 Endless Ocean?
Well that is an incredibly intriguing trailer. I'm all about Ocean exploration based games so this just might fit the bill. Looking forward to hearing more about it.
Not sure I'm seeing the ASMR connection at all, but whatever.
I usually love underwater and undersea games but this looks like a pass. How about Nintrndo bring back Endless Ocean?
Very interested in this game. I thought it would be more like Abzu before watching the trailer, but now I'm even more intrigued.
Getting weird ABZU vibes from this trailer. Might check it out on PC.
I too was lured by the prospect of an Abzu-like, but this appears to have players navigating menus more than an actual 3D seascape. Nonetheless all the UI design and animations do look gorgeous, so I guess I'll keep an eye on it.
@mlj11 Yeah navigating menus doesn’t sound like a videogame tome. Hard pass.
Looks quite relaxing, just watched some of the demo stream over on steam - its running live now if you want to see more https://store.steampowered.com/app/890720/In_Other_Waters/
@Quarth That explanation just confuses me even more.
So it's Abzu V2 then.
@Bolt_Strike You're not alone. 😆 Maybe that's why Ryan didn't care to explain it.
How people can compare this to Endless Ocean or Abzu is completely beyond me.
"Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean."
If you're wondering where exactly in this entire game we get to see this supposedly beautiful and mysterious alien ocean, I'll tell you where: nowhere. I just watched over half an hour of a Steam live stream of this game, and all you do is watch instruments and move dots on the screens of instruments. That was definitely a MASSIVE waste of my precious time and energy, and that's 40 minutes of my life that I'll never get back spent on something completely boring.
There's no actual diving or seeing creatures or environments going on, and it looks like simplistic, 6th gen crap. It's more like a diving management simulation, and it's the most boring and coarse types of gameplay, so it'll probably only appeal to fans of those types of games. I'd rather do the actual diving myself, instead of constantly looking at a scanner/monitor and seeing dots move, while having to read WAY too many boring texts...
It's a VERY hard pass for me.
@ThanosReXXX Not sure why people were mentioning Abzu either, looks nothing like that.
Still, the idea of a diving "management" thing is appealing. Just want to hear more.
@Thesharkfromjaws Well, I don't know if you've also watched that live stream on Steam (the link is in comment #12), but suffice to say that it didn't show anything new compared to what's already shown in the trailer in this article, so that is all that the game is about, which to me is infinitely boring.
I clicked on this article in hopes of finding something interesting, and perhaps indeed something along the lines of Endless Ocean, so I think you can imagine my disappointment when I saw what this is actually about.
The description of the game DEFINITELY does not apply, because you don't get to see any of that supposedly beautiful alien ocean, and you don't get to "freely swim around" in it.
All you'll ever see is a moving pointer on a radar/sonar screen.
Eh... If the game was what it looked like on the cover art, then I'd give it a whirl. No offense, but to me, all it really is is just controlling a dot on a screen with an extensive beastiary & a story. But to each there own though.
Looks like Endless Ocean ... on another planet and in HD. Not necessarily a bad thing.
Before watching the trailer I thought this game would be like ABZU or Endless Ocean but after watching it all it seems to be is navigating menus which doesn't seem to very relaxing to me.
I was expecting a walking simulator when I read the headline but this game actually looks really interesting and different. I love how they are presenting actual ship navigation.
@Thesharkfromjaws
Cause underwater.
@Burning_Spear The only scenario in which it's not a bad thing is if you like controlling a dot on a sonar screen, because that's all you'll be doing. And reading, a LOT of reading of text that explains the story and interaction, but other than that, this couldn't be further from something like Endless Ocean, even if it tried.
What you see in the trailer that is in this article, is all the gameplay there is. There's no 3D, free-roaming, third person diving going on, just blips on a screen.
@HeroOfCybertron That's it! Thanks.
What's an ASMR?
Looks nice but... New Horizons is out 😂
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