Underwater metroidvania Depths of Sanity gets a release date

Depths of Sanity is breaking the surface soon. After a stellar debut at Pax East in 2019 and 2022, Depths of Sanity launches on PC November 2, 2022.

The news comes from Bomb Shelter Games themselves. Depths of Sanity puts players into an unforgiving and inhospitable world beneath the ocean. Mutated, grotesque, dark, and haunting, a lone explorer, Abe Douglas, searches for answer in the blackness if the sea. With strange creatures and horrifying monstrosities at these depth, Abe searches for answers at the cost of his sanity. Surviving the madness is only part of the challenge.

Depths of Sanity is a metroidvania where players explore ship wrecks, coral reefs, caverns and more. Players utilize unique tools and weapons to navigate, explore, solve puzzles, and survive. At times, this includes Abe stepping out of his submersible to explore and retrieve clues related to be disappearance of his crew.

Playing the game myself at PAX East in 2019 and 2022, you should definitely keep this one on your radar. My time with the demo was excellent, unique, and memorable. My demo had me retrieve tools to progress through a cavern and fight monstrous mermaids. I even left the sub to fight and retrieve an important item. I’ve seen the game start off in prototype phase, and have followed it to where it is now. Finally, it is scary. The noises and sounds are sure to send a chill down the spine. For horror games fans especially, you’ll want to play this one.

Depths of Sanity launches November 2 for PC. Steam Deck compatibility was not confirmed at the time of this posting. Depths of Sanity is set for a console release to both Xbox and Nintendo Switch in Q2 2023.