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Below the Ashes
Forty years after the sky caught fire, your group goes underground to survive. Lead a crew, dig into a world of cave-ins, floods and darkness, and face what is climbing up from the deep. Alone or in online co-op with up to 8 players.

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Features
Single-player
Online Co-op
Family Sharing
Profile Features Limited 
Languages:
Interface Full Audio Subtitles
English ✔ ✔ ✔
Content
Includes Interactive Elements

In-game chat, Online interactivity

Coming Soon To Early Access

The developers of this game intend to release as a work in progress, developing with the feedback of players.

Note: Games in Early Access are not complete and may or may not change further. If you are not excited to play this game in its current state, then you should wait to see if the game progresses further in development. Learn more

What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“Below the Ashes is fully playable, but a game about a crew and a living underground world gets better the more people play it together. We want feedback on balance, co-op and the story while there is still room to change things.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We expect around 6 to 12 months, depending on feedback.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“The full version will complete the story campaign with its endings, add more creatures and places in the deep, and bring more crafting, building and crew options. Balance and performance will improve throughout.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The core game is complete and playable alone or in online co-op: digging, building, crafting, farming, leading a crew, creatures, factions and most of the voiced story campaign.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“The price may rise slightly at full release as more content is added.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“Through the Steam discussions and regular updates with patch notes, which are also shown in the game under "What's new". Player feedback directly shapes balance, features and fixes.”
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Planned Release Date: To be announced

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About This Game

Forty years after the sky caught fire, the ash still falls.

Your group found an old mine hatch with a ladder going down. Under the ash the ground is warmer, and warm is what keeps you alive. But the deep was never empty, and something down there is climbing toward your light.

Below the Ashes is a survival colony game for one to eight players. You each control a survivor directly while your crew follows your orders. Dig, build, farm and fight together, and lead your people deeper than anyone should go.

Lead a crew

Mark areas to dig, build or guard and your crew gets to work. They get hungry, cold and hurt, and they remember how you treat them.

Dig into a living world

Tunnels can cave in, water floods the low passages and air runs thin the deeper you go. Every world is generated fresh, with caverns, underground lakes, root caves and fungus zones.

The dark is the enemy

You only see what your lights reach. The creatures of the deep hunt by night, and the deeper you go, the more of them there are.

A story told out loud

A fully voiced campaign that you play together. People give you goals, and how you reach them is up to you. Big decisions are made as a group.

Play together

Invite friends through Steam and play in the same colony.

  • Single player or online co-op for up to 8 players

  • Direct control of your survivor, with crew AI handling the work

  • Cave-ins, water, air and darkness as real threats

  • Crafting at stations, farming and food stores for the cold season

  • Three factions with their own beliefs about the fire

  • A voiced story campaign with group votes

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

The spoken dialogue of the story characters and the trailer narration are generated with an AI text-to-speech model. The lines are written by the developer and generated before release. No real person’s voice was cloned. AI voices can be turned off completely in the settings, in which case all dialogue is shown as text only. I plan to replace them with human voice actors in the future.

AI tools were also used to assist with writing parts of the code.

The in-game art, sound effects and music and other things are not AI generated.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Dual core 2.0 GHz
    • Memory: 4096 MB RAM
    • Graphics: GPU with DirectX 12 or Vulkan support
    • DirectX: Version 12
    • Storage: 500 MB available space
    • Additional Notes: Online multiplayer requires an internet connection.
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
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