Co-op island adventure game NAUTUS announced for PC
From Have a Nice Death developer Magic Design Studios.
Publisher Arc Games and Have a Nice Death developer Magic Design Studios have announced NAUTUS, a cooperative island adventure game. It will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam in 2027.
Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:
About
From the indie studio behind Have a Nice Death and Unruly Heroes comes NAUTUS, a quirky underwater adventure where the surface is your cozy sanctuary, but the ocean floor is a whole different beast.
Explore the abyss in your upgradable submarine, face strange creatures, gather resources, and recover mysterious artifacts to uncover what happened to the N.A.U.T.U.S. research team.
Return to the surface to craft, build, and befriend its eccentric inhabitants before diving even deeper—solo or with up to three friends in online cooperative play.
Key Features
- Explore the Deep Unknown – Navigate breathtaking coral reefs, sunken pirate shipwrecks, and uncharted underwater anomalies that even the local N.A.U.T.U.S. scientists refuse to approach. Make sure to be ready to fight and capture strange creatures that should never have existed!
- Pilot Your Own Upgradable Submarine – Craft specialized modules, protective equipment, and vital weaponry as you take control and update your own submarine. Advance your tech to dive deeper into hostile trenches and defend against aggressive, mutant marine life.
- Adventure Solo or Dive into Online Cooperative Multiplayer – Uncover the mystery of NAUTUS and brave the ocean depths entirely on your own, or team up with up to three players in four-player online cooperative play and dive into this offbeat adventure together.
- Meet, Befriend, and Uncover the Mysteries of a Quirky Cast of Inhabitants – Meet eccentric, amnesiac locals like a tanning-obsessed diver and a quirky expedition chief. Collaborate with them on unique and useful projects and recover lost artifact stones to cure their bizarre phobia of the ocean and restore them to their true selves.
- Solve a Sunken Mystery – Investigate the sudden disappearance of your uncle, Bernard Torpedo, by hunting for ancient relics, hidden clues, and secrets buried in the abyss. Will you uncover the mysteries of your uncle and this mysterious island?
- Develop and Customize a Unique Outpost – Transform a secluded tropical outpost into a thriving home base of your own. Set up vital crafting machinery to refine rare materials gathered from the deep, manage your resources strategically, and build the essential infrastructure needed to fuel your next sub-aquatic expedition.
Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.