Planned Release Date: Q2 2027

About This Game

The deeper you go, the darker it gets.

Abysses: Meridian is an underwater exploration adventure. Swim, walk and pilot your way down through a drowned world: in a diving suit with a minute of air, on foot inside a sleeping station, at the controls of a submarine you build yourself. Sunlight fades fast. Below that, there is only what your searchlights touch, and what your sonar hears.

Splash down. Your drop pod hits the sea crippled and leaking. Seal the leak, swim out, gather what the crash scattered across the seabed and fix your pod by hand: thrusters, ballast pump, searchlights, sonar. Then ping the dark. Five hundred metres away, a station that went silent three years ago answers.

Wake the station. Thétis lies forty metres down, dark and asleep. Pull its emergency lever, dock, and bring it back to life one system at a time: the pumps, the fabricator, the chart table, all the way up to the lookout under its glass dome. Twelve people lived here. Their voice recorders don’t tell the same story.

Build your way down. The cargo pods dropped with you sank deeper still. Find them, tow them home, and salvage the seabed: copper, crystal, scrap, kelp resin, basalt fibre, obsidian glass and the strange alloy of the ring. Every material becomes an upgrade at the fabricator. Your patched-up pod gives way to the MERIDIAN S-1, a real submarine assembled in Thétis’ moon pool, and later to the Lantern, a deep diver with a drill and a claw.

Descend. From sunlit shallows and kelp forests to the White Towers, the Rift, the Ash Plain and the glowing cracks of the Forges, every layer is darker, stranger and more alive than the last, down to the Geode, more than a kilometre below. Your hull creaks under the pressure. Depth is the frontier.

Meet the locals. Choir whales sing above the kelp, veil rays glide over the shallows, lantern jellies drift through the White Towers, and forge wardens patrol the cracks of the Forges. Most creatures want nothing from you. Some do, and a flash beacon will send them on their way. Log every species in your field journal.

See by searchlight. Volumetric light, caustics, drifting particles and glowing life make the water feel thick and real. Switch your lights off and you vanish into the black, but you also go blind. A sonar ping reveals everything around you. Deep in the caves, something listens back.

Dive together. Play with a friend: each of you comes down in your own pod and fights your own way to Thétis. Once you meet there, you share the station, the submarine and the dark.

Find the ring. Something enormous lies far below, and since it woke, the sea has never stopped rising. It was not built by anyone you know. And it is calling.

Abysses: Meridian favours immersion over simulation: easy to pilot, fun to fly, heavy with atmosphere. No hunger meters, no survival chores: just you, the dark, and the pressure.

• Swim, walk and pilot in first person, or over the shoulder.
  
• Repair your pod by hand, then build the MERIDIAN S-1 submarine and the Lantern deep diver.
  
• Seven materials and dozens of upgrades: thrusters, searchlights, sonar, drill, air, depth rating, cargo hold.
  
• Six layers of ocean, from sunlit shallows to the Forges and the Geode, more than a kilometre down.
  
• A living ocean: hand-crafted creatures, glowing plants, schools of fish, and a field journal to fill.
  
• Thétis, a silent station to bring back to life, and the recorders of its missing crew.
  
• Two-player co-op: each in your own pod, together at Thétis.
  
• Play as Jonah or Lina, with SEVEN, your pod’s AI, at your side.
  
• Day and night, rain, storms and auroras over the sea.
  
• Photo mode.
  
• Mouse and keyboard or gamepad.
  
• A custom engine built for atmosphere, from Low to Ultra, with DLSS.