3 people found this review helpful
Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 996.8 hrs on record (7.5 hrs at review time)
Posted: 29 Nov, 2019 @ 12:45pm
Updated: 23 Nov, 2023 @ 1:17pm

Early Access Review
Barotrauma is an in-depth game and is very fun with friends but is alright in single player with the help of bots, the game is set under the crust of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. You traverse an ocean inside of various submarines that can be chosen from a list of vanilla or workshop subs you can download.

Barotrauma is a game of many features:

Weapon variety and Combat, you can kill enemies and your friends in many ways which can vary from guns mounted on subs, to handheld firearms, harpoon guns, melee weapons, and an assortment of grenades types. Harpoons guns can have their harpoons recovered after firing. Revolvers are a good backup weapon and can be used with one hand. Assault rifles take up a backpack/toolbelt slot but are all rounders and do good damage. The HMG is the ultimate handheld weapon with a massive DPS but has expensive ammo, but the cost shouldn't be an issue at the point you acquire it. For melee, you can use knives, two handed boarding axes, stun batons, and even using your tools in an emergency.

Traitors can be enabled in multiplayer servers in which a player will be selected at random and must complete a separate objective that is either to sabotage or kill the crew, the normal crew can choose to either kill or restrain the traitor to prevent another appearing, as if the current traitor dies, someone else is selected as traitor.

The health system is in-depth, there are many healing items, poisons, buffing drugs and chemicals in that can be good, bad, or cause side effects, there are many poisons that will kill you or do other things, there are items that will speed you up or make you stronger. The health system is limb based which will affect your performance relating to the location. Once you lose your health, you go into an unconscious state where you stop breathing and lose control of your character, players will have to perform CPR to revive you from oxygen loss or use medical items to heal you to sufficient health for you to regain consciousness.

Classes, there are different roles and sub-roles. The Captain sails the ship and commands it, engineers operate the reactor and repair electrical items, mechanics repairs mechanical items and fix hull breaches, security officer are effective at attacking hostiles in the sub and aiming turrets, medics which heal people and an assistants which are not very good but are decent at all skills.

Alien Creatures, there is a good amount of creatures that inhabit the ocean with some having variations. They vary from small monsters that can enter your sub and kill your crew from the inside, to massive behemoths that can destroy hull segments in one hit.
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