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From the Depths

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac • 2020

Should you play it?

Over 1000 unique components allow you to build and command voxel vehicles from the deep ocean to outer space! Forge strategies, allegiances and fleets strong enough to destroy eight deadly factions of the planet and reign supreme. A genre-defying mashup of simulation, building, RTS and RPG.

What works

  • Extensive creative freedom in vehicle and weapon design
  • Deep and rewarding learning curve
  • Active developer and community support
  • Complex physics and ai systems
  • Engaging campaign and multiplayer modes

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep learning curve intimidating for new players
  • Complex and sometimes unintuitive ui and controls
  • Performance can lag with large battles
  • Campaign can become repetitive
  • Lack of polish in graphics and some gameplay systems

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Sins of a Solar Empire II

  • Avorion

  • The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt

  • Sea of Craft

  • Attack on Toys

  • Empyrion - Galactic Survival

Less competitive

Games that feels like From the Depths but with less competition against others

  • Cold Waters

  • War on the Sea

  • Badlands Crew - Drive, Command, Conquer

  • Starpoint Gemini Warlords

  • Void Destroyer 2

  • No Man's Sky

More intimate

Games that feels like From the Depths but with more focus on close relationships

  • Carrier Command 2

  • Guns of Icarus Alliance

  • Guns of Icarus Online

  • Airmen

  • War Dust VR: 32v32 Battlefields

  • Iron Brigade

Less fantastical

Games that feels like From the Depths but with less imaginative fiction

  • Task Force Admiral - Vol.1: American Carrier Battles

  • Wargame: European Escalation

  • Arma 3

  • War Thunder

  • WARNO

  • Stormworks: Build and Rescue

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

From the Depths: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Creativity, Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026