Depth Strider

The rig went dark eleven hours ago. Whatever is still moving down there is not crew any more. DEPTH STRIDER is a twin-stick side-scrolling shooter set in a flooded deep-sea research station. You are the Aquanaut, alone in a two-tonne atmospheric diving suit, holding the catwalks against everything the pressure has rewritten. HEAT, NOT AMMO Your harpoon gatling never runs dry — it runs hot. Hold the trigger and the barrels spin up, the spread tightens and the damage climbs. Hold it too long and the gun jams for three full seconds, which down here is a very long time. Every firefight is a bet on how far past the redline you are willing to push. A SUIT, NOT A SPRINT Water changes everything. You move with weight and momentum, thrusters slow a fall rather than cancel it, and the dash is your only fast option — so you spend it carefully. DESCEND Every third wave the station takes you deeper. Upper Catwalks. Coolant Spill. Reactor Trench. The Boneyard. The Abyss. Each depth repaints the water, rebuilds the level and introduces something new: armour-plated crabs you cannot shoot from above, anglerfish that lock a charge and commit to it, acid spitters, drifting mines, shoals, and things that do not stay lit long enough to identify. WATCH YOUR AIR The tank is always draining. Oxygen is the one meter that kills you while you are doing nothing at all. REFIT BETWEEN DIVES Salvage pays for twelve permanent upgrades — thicker plating, barbed heads, coolant injection, piercing bolts, overcharge coils, a turbine wake that shreds what you dash through, and an emergency purge that buys you one more life per run. Nothing resets. Every dive makes the next one further. FIELD BOOSTERS Supply caches scattered through the station drop twin barrels, overpressure rounds, spool override, a pressure shield, oxygen and hull patches. - True twin-stick controls, built for touch - Full keyboard and mouse support - Plays offline — no account, no login, no server - Seven languages - One-handed to learn, deep to survive How deep did you get?