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Barotrauma: Home & Harbor Expansion Announced, Brings Outpost Building and Management

Joelle Daniels — Sun, 08 Jun 2025 19:50:31 +0000

FakeFish and Undertow Games have announced a new expansion for multiplayer co-op submarine survival game Barotrauma. Titled Home & Harbor, the expansion will bring with it a host of new features, including the ability for players to take ownership of outposts, as well as the ability to build and manage these outposts.

Barotrauma: Home & Harbor was announced with a trailer during PC Gaming Show 2025. While we didn’t really get a look at the trailer, we did get a glimpse at the new faction that will also be coming to the game with the expansion – the Descendents.

The Descendants are a body-modified and technocratic faction that make use of alien technology. Thanks to the addition of the faction, players will also ultimately be able to get their hands on strange new tools and weapons to use.

Along with trying to build out an outpost, players will also need to manage NPC inhabitants and even establish industry to ensure the prosperity of the base. New technologies can also be researched through a dedicated technology tree.

Barotrauma: Home & Harbor will be coming to PC in 2026.

Barotrauma is a Co-Op Horror Submarine Sim, Now Out of Early Access

Shunal Doke — Tue, 14 Mar 2023 01:44:14 +0000

Co-op indie submarine sim Barotrauma has finished its almost-four-year stint in early access and is now officially available as a fully-released game on PC. Celebrating the launch, developers FakeFish and Undertow Games, along with publisher Daedalic Entertainment have released a launch trailer.

Despite being a essentially a submarine-piloting simulator, Barotrauma is unique in its setting, as well as its use of genre conventions. Featuring side-scrolling 2D gameplay, Barotrauma is set in the oceans of Europa. Players have to travel from outpost to outpost, trying to make a living by taking on various missions from different factions.

Barotrauma has players choose from several roles, from mechanic to medic to captain, each role providing different abilities and skill levels for different tasks. The engineer, for example, is better suited to repairing broken electronics without electrocuting themselves. The medic, on the other hand, will be able to better administer medicine to their allies.

Interestingly enough, Barotrauma also leans heavily on the horror side of the equation with its monster designs, as well as the general atmosphere it offers where you can’t really see what’s outside your submarine aside from making use of a few vague sensors to figure things out.

15 Best Co-op Survival Games

Ravi Sinha — Wed, 29 Jul 2020 17:09:11 +0000

Ah, the act of surviving together. There’s nothing better than foraging, creating a base together and building a thriving community…before it all comes apart from death, disease or zombies. Even with all the terrible things that can happen, survival games are still immensely popular and have some of the most dedicated fan bases out there. Let’s take a look at 15 of the best survival games worth playing in co-op.

Don’t Starve Together

Expanding upon Klei Entertainment’s excellent survival experience, Don’t Starve Together is more than just the base game with co-op mechanics. It offers three modes – Survival, which turns dead players into ghosts that drain the sanity of the living; Wilderness, which puts each player in a random location; and Endless, where players can respawn endlessly. With its plethora of content – from DLC like Reign of Giants, Shipwrecked and Hamlet to new characters and free updates – Don’t Starve Together remains one of the premiere multiplayer survival experiences.