We Need To Go Deeper Reviews

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BUGGY AF

4/10

LOVE IT. LETS GET DEEP IN IT

this game is DEEP

We ended up going deeper, big mistake.

i love destroying entire alien fish civilitaions for fun :) 10/10

Controls don't fucking work and changing the binds doesn't work. Unplayable. Horribly configured even after all this time. Playing with a controller is terrible.

Incredibly fun with friends. It's harder, but not necessarily worse the less people you have. It's hard, too, but in a good way.

We Need to Go Deeper is an example that not everything hidden in the depths of digital stores is a hidden gem. Sometimes it’s like a sea urchin — an unpleasant surprise you’d rather avoid. Beneath its quirky exterior and cooperative concept lies an experience that often frustrates more than it engages. I played with a friend — supposedly the perfect format for this kind of game. However, bugs, clunky controls, an awkward chat system, and unpredictable gameplay quickly killed the enthusiasm. The possibility for communication and coordination, so vital in such projects, here turns into a torture, especially if one player has to constantly switch between actions and a rough interface. The idea itself is great: diving into the ocean’s depths, facing dangers, discovering new areas, improving your depth record, gradually strengthening your crew and submarine. But the execution falls short. Players level up but barely feel rewarded — the in-game store mostly offers cosmetic items, and even those aren’t always obviously useful. To unlock anything worthwhile early on requires hours of grinding, which simply doesn’t work well alongside the chaos unfolding in the game. At the start, you depend heavily on luck: whether you end up in a decent biome or the game decides to throw you straight into the Frozen Waters (which I find absurd for a starting biome) — nobody knows. Meanwhile, the shops don’t offer anything genuinely helpful for early dives. The difficulty and absurdity often provoke bewilderment rather than excitement. Take the Lair Guardian, for example — it grabs your character through an instantly appearing breach right after entering the lair, and if you’re “lucky” enough to be in the wrong spot, you die immediately. It’s just absurd. Or the boulders falling from the ceiling at such a speed that even players with good reflexes might not dodge them in time. The same goes for the deadly tiki statues in the Volcanic Depths, which activate far too abruptly. These elements don’t create a sense of fair challenge — it feels more like a guessing game mixed with random chance. Separately, the bugs and technical issues deserve mention. I’ve gotten stuck in textures outside the submarine — sure, I can just reconnect, but at the cost of losing all my gathered loot. Snails in caves tend to become invisible, making them hard to kill. The interface responds with delays, and the chat often fails to work, forcing a restart. All of this leaves the impression that the game is stuck in a perpetual alpha state that the developers have abandoned, thinking “this will do.” Playing with two people is tough, and with bots — boring: they neither replace real players nor help; sometimes, they even sabotage the game. The whole cooperative concept falls apart without a full team. The game seems designed for four players but doesn’t offer suitable tools for smaller groups. The last update was ages ago, which shows — the interface feels outdated, like an early 2010s browser flash game. The chat works poorly, the menu navigation is inconvenient, and there’s no feeling of polish. To the developers’ credit, the ping was stable — no lag — but that’s a small consolation amid everything else. I don’t quite understand why many compare this game to Barotrauma, even loosely. It’s like comparing Shakespeare to someone’s drunk ramblings on a pub napkin. The idea is similar — submarine, depths, crew — but the level of detail and balance are incomparable. WNTGD feels like a game with potential that got tired halfway through development. It throws its players into chaos under the guise of difficulty, offers grind instead of genuine progression, and then leaves them to fight both enemies and the game’s own design flaws. And with the devs having gone quiet and no sign of meaningful updates, it’s hard to even recommend this as a “might improve later” title. Honestly, there’s nothing more to say here. If you enjoy unreliable mechanics, forced chaos, and a UI that seems allergic to usability — go ahead. But for anyone looking for a meaningful co-op experience beneath the waves: look elsewhere. The depths of this game aren’t mysterious — they’re just empty.