There Could Be More Than 2.5 Million Traitors Among Us: Barotrauma Will Tread in the New Treacherous Tides Update Today

JUPITER/EUROPA, (18.10.2023) - Barotrauma developers Undertow Games and FakeFish plus publishers Daedalic Entertainment have unleashed a deceitful new way to play with the Treacherous Tides Update, available now. The traitor system overhaul injects new features, delves into campaign integration, and adds a variety of volatile events and new rewards. In over 4 years , the game has witnessed over 2.5 million downloads on Steam and boasts a bountiful modding community with over 50,000 fan creations. Join us on our collusion course.

Watch the Treacherous Tides Trailer here: https://youtu.be/JgBZxBzdNS0 

Barotrauma is one of the games where playing evil is notoriously fun. Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator set on Europa, one of the moons of Saturn, featuring survival horror and RPG elements. The game has multiplayer as well as single player capabilities and a very active modding community: More than 2.5 million people own the game on Steam and there are more than 50.000 fan creations in the Steam Workshop to date. Barotrauma is known and loved for the amount of freedom and complexity it grants, especially in its well-balanced, sometimes hilariously chaotic multiplayer mode.

Need a refresher on Barotrauma without the drama? Watch our 1.0 release video and explainer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0JmXvbvxq8 

In comes the Treacherous Tides Update: with the traitor system overhaul, the game gets new exciting features and content to make traitor gameplay more engaging, offer more variety, and to deeply connect it with the multiplayer campaign game mode. You can now invite treason to your travels in campaign mode as well by activating traitors in the campaign settings. Developer Fakefish has added two new settings for traitor gameplay in the server settings to up the ante:

Successful traitors will receive XP and/or monetary rewards, and the possibility of chaining their traitorous acts with escalating danger. If the task fails or the crew correctly accuses the traitor, a new player will take their place for the next traitor mission.

In case you were thinking that winning sounded too good, here’s the catch: where the previous traitor system consisted of only 7 different events, after the update, there will be a total of 27 events that traitors may be assigned. Some of these events will also require multiple traitors to accomplish. These multi-traitor events will require special codewords to identify co-conspirators, adding a modicum of teamwork to the misbehavior.

The events bring with them new unique items to aid and abet your sudden and inevitable betrayal, such as:

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Barotrauma, an underwater, outer-space game of teamwork and ever-present danger, reached 1.0 in March 2023 after several years in early access on Steam. Embracing moddability and open development, Barotrauma is built in close communication with its players, and its Steam Workshop hosts almost 50,000 fan creations.

Barotrauma began as a freely downloadable project by Undertow Games, the solo developer of the free open-source horror game SCP – Containment Breach. Later, the award-winning fellow indie studio FakeFish joined the project with their team of industry veterans and fresh talents to launch Barotrauma on Steam. Based in Turku, Finland, the joint studio continues to support Barotrauma with further updates while also developing future game titles.

Daedalic Entertainment is a renowned publisher supporting indie developers for over 17 years, bringing their titles to every major gaming platform. The line-up of games is comprised of a diverse variety of unique titles, focusing on 4 distinct areas: story-telling, strategy, co-op-games, and wholesome games. With an international team of around 45 employees, Daedalic is currently working with various development studios to create a new line-up of innovative games across consoles and PCs to market. Recent hits include Barotrauma, Unrailed!, Potion Tycoon, Deponia, Shadow Tactics, Inkulinati, Hidden Deep, Fling to the Finish! and more.

In regards to future titles please look out for upcoming games like New Cycle, Reveil, Capes, Magin: The Rat Project Stories, Edge of Sanity, Wild Woods, and many more. Since April 2022 Daedalic Entertainment has been a subsidiary of French publishing house Nacon. For further reference please visit: https://daedalic.prezly.com/.

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