There is something about underwater games that gets under my skin in a way most survival games simply cannot. Give me a huge ocean, a barely functional submarine, a handful of resources, and something enormous moving somewhere beyond the edge of my flashlight, and I’m already sold. That is exactly why Nautus has caught my…
If you have ever played Subnautica and thought, “I love exploring the ocean, but I absolutely do not need another nightmare waiting behind a rock,” then Nautus: Echoes From Below immediately deserves your attention. Magic Design Studios, the team behind Have a Nice Death and Unruly Heroes, is taking the underwater survival formula in a…
If you have been waiting to jump into Nautus only to be greeted by a completely black screen, I know exactly how frustrating that feels. You boot the game, hear music or environmental sounds, maybe even see the window appear for a second, and then… nothing. After spending far too many hours troubleshooting PC games,…
If you are playing Nautus on PC and the game feels less smooth than it looks, you are definitely not alone. The underwater environments are packed with atmosphere, lighting effects, dense vegetation, reflections, and moving objects, but all that visual detail can come at a nasty performance cost. A system that handles most modern games…
If there is one thing I have learned from spending way too many hours with survival games, it is that the ocean is almost never a relaxing place. Give me a beautiful tropical island, a submarine, some weird creatures lurking in the darkness, and a mystery involving a missing relative, and I am probably going…
Magic Design Studios has another strange little world brewing, and this one looks like it could become a serious obsession for anyone who loves exploration, base building, and games that somehow make terrifying creatures feel oddly charming. NAUTUS: Echoes from Below is the studio’s upcoming underwater adventure, and after the success of Have a Nice…
If you are jumping into NAUTUS expecting to spend hours building up an island, upgrading a submarine, and diving into increasingly ridiculous underwater trouble, the last thing you want is Steam deciding that your controller simply does not exist. Nothing kills the mood faster than watching your gamepad light up while the game completely ignores…
If there’s one thing I love about PC gaming right now, it’s being able to take surprisingly ambitious games almost anywhere. The Steam Deck has turned everything from massive RPGs to tiny indie experiments into potential couch, bed, or travel games. So when Nautus was revealed as a strange mix of tropical base management, underwater…
If there is one thing I love about indie games, it is watching a studio take a ridiculous-sounding idea and somehow turn it into something you desperately want to play. Nautus: Echoes from Below immediately feels like that kind of project. Magic Design Studios, the team behind Have a Nice Death and Unruly Heroes, has…
If you have been following upcoming indie games, Nautus is one of those projects that can sneak up on you and suddenly become impossible to ignore. Magic Design Studios, the team behind Have a Nice Death, is taking a very different swing this time: instead of throwing players into a stylish roguelike nightmare, the studio…
