Deep Within

Discover an underwater mystery. Solve real time puzzles.

Deep down in the seabed strange hybrids of steam machines and alien plants live. If you manage well your internal garden, these unique species in exchange will help you decode mysteries from your past.

These resources are fixed to the seabed so you need to optimise their circular usage to the very maximum.

• WASD - Move camera
• Left click - Select and place/remove hybrids.

The objective of the game is to collect as many decoding points as possible. If you reach the minimum required for the level, you will learn the next secret message. 

There are different tiles on the map:

• Resources -- these contain materials the hybrids require to live on. In order to use materials, you have to connect to them (directly or indirectly). 
• Decoding machine -- if this machine has materials in a cycle/tick, it will produce points.
• Regular hybrids -- required to make the full ecosystem work as they transfer either material to anti-material or vice versa. 
• Speed machines -- enable faster cooldown for hybrids so you can progress with building faster.

The materials are always transferred from one state to another if possible. Two phases: color regular and black anti. A hybrid requires all resources to process them (if only one type of material is available, they starve). Connected hives of hybrids (neighbouring tiles) act as one ecosystem - and would process materials together.

Game Jam 

Made for HEJ 2025 june (Havi Egy Játék) game jam. Theme options: OPPOSITES, RETRO FUTURE, NOT WHAT YOU EXPECTED. Optional mechanic: REAL-TIME STRATEGY

Selected main theme: RETRO FUTURE.

I set the game in a Steam Punk world. Although Retro Future is my main theme, I believe the game works as opposites (material - anti-material) and Not what you expect (cannot mine resources, only use them circular). 

In one month I found this theme to be turned into a full RTS game not possible, but I implemented certain RTS elements - like the game is time bounded and real time.

Made by: Tóth László

The game is a real time puzzle game with linear story telling. Play through time: 10-20 mins. 

The game is an early prototype and serves more a demo or concept test vs. a full game.

Tools

Engine: Unity 2022.3.55f1

Art: Affinity Designer 2

Sounds: Reaper

Shout-out

The game proudly uses great work of:

• Graphics: Steampunk machines by Macrovector, Design by freepik
• Fonts: Crimson Pro by Jacques Le Bailly, SteamWreck by Pixel Sagas
• Music: This Place Has Never Known So… Clemens Ruh from uppbeat.io
• Sound Effects: Closing Metal Door, submarine, Deep See Ambience, Metal Impact, Metallic clang, Glitch Sound, Clock Ticking Sound Effect, Creepy Dream Call, Metal Hit, Newton Balls Hitting Sound, hypnotic machine, Shimerring Object, Magic via pixabay from freesound_community, CoffeeBadAudioLab, u_vorg7bergvc

Known Issues

• None so far. I'm sure it's coming!