Cold Waters

Spiritual Successor to the Microprose Classic “Red Storm Rising”.

Cold Waters is a simulation, naval combat and submarine game developed and published by Killerfish Games.
Released on June 05th 2017 is available in English on Windows and MacOS.

It has received 4,440 reviews of which 3,870 were positive and 570 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.24€ on Steam and has a 75% discount.

The Steam community has classified Cold Waters into these genres:

Simulation Naval Combat Submarine Strategy Naval Cold War Military Singleplayer Indie War Open World Tactical Action Realistic Multiplayer Historical Atmospheric Psychological Horror Wargame RTS

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS: XP
Processor: Intel Atom
Memory: 2 GB RAM
DirectX: Version 9.0c
Storage: 2 GB available space

MacOS

OS: OS X Version 10.6.3
Processor: 1.6GHz (Dual Core) Intel CPU
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: Shader Model 3 Capable Graphics Card
Storage: 2 GB available space

Reviews

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Sept. 2024

amzing game but dont buy unless your desprate as sea power (another game made by the same devs) is coming out in november which will have submarines and suface ships and air craft carries and planes

Aug. 2024

---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☑ 9 ☐ 10

June 2024

PROS: - good variety of subs and enemies, all modeled to historically accurate specs - three dynamic campaigns in interesting time periods (early cold war, late cold war, Taiwan invasion) that promptly show the outcome of your success or failure - interesting strategic approach, rewarding long term thinking and good positioning instead of all-out charges - a bunch of good but really hard scenarios - controls are relatively simple, well integrated, and easy to learn CONS: - graphics are dated and 3D models could use some more details, or just more polygons. Explosions are especially bad nd you will see plenty of them. - AI can be either Marko Ramius or Spongebob. They may act like asleep at the wheel allowing you to follow in the silence cone and plant two torpedoes up their buttocks point blank, or hear you from the other side of the ocean and pursue relentlessly shooting torpedo rockets and calling in air support in waves. No inbetween. - Campaign missions could use a lot more variety - Speed in the grand strategy map is way too fast, with no possibility of slowing down and plan in real time - the full price is *WAY* too high. 37€ is the price for a AAA game, in my book this would be worth half that. So, wait for a discount. Overall, it's enjoyable and challenging, but not as interesting nor varied as the fully modded U-Boat game. On the plus side of the comparison, is also not as full of bug nor slow to load.

June 2024

92 hours in and I am still learning some aspects of the game, how passive sonar works in particular. It's really fun :) * I miss multiplayer mode, that would be awesome. Wolfpack against wolfpack, or one-to-one. * I also miss proper Linux release. I am using Proton to run this game, and so far there have been no major glitches really. But still. * I will probably grow tired of this game 150 hours in and stop playing it. There is not that much content. But for me that is okay. I dont want to play games forever. ----- UPDATE @ 203 hours --------------- This game is SO MUCH BETTER with the mods (esp. the "EPIC MOD"). It was a Nice game without mods, but with the mods its SOOO MUCH BETTER. Number of campaigns are more than quadrupled, it's possible to play Russian, French, Chinese, Brittish, Australian and Swedish submarines. Some of the Russian submarines has nukes that can be used in-game, which is not as over-kill as it maybe sounds, considering their normal armament is pretty lousy. I REALLY liked the visual effects of the EPIC mod. It get Really Dark a handful of hundred meters down below. And visibility is limited. While this visual occlusion can be disabled, ofc, it gives a much better game experience. TBQH it feels like the modders maybe did at least as much as the original game creators. I hope some of the money earned goes to the modders. I will continue playing this game forever :) I hope there will be a sequel and that it's released for Linux as well.

June 2024

Cold Waters is an excellent submarine simulation including the hunting submarines of the modern era. The campaigns have different levels of difficulty and also different scenarios. The submarine simulation is challenging and requires a high level of concentration. The game can be difficult at first, but after a while you get a good overview of the units. Between the dynamic campaign missions, short illustrations and newspaper articles are shown, which gives a good immersion of the scenario progression. Overall a clear recommendation.

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-75% 36.99€ 9.24€

8.4

3,870

570

Online players

117

Developer

Killerfish Games

Publisher

Killerfish Games

Release 05 Jun 2017

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