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 4,476 reviews of which 3,896 were positive and 580 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 36.99€ on Steam.
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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
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An unexpected gem. Slow, methodical and very tactical gameplay. Every action matters. Ended up learning how a submarine operates and does war. Many submarines to command, with different armament and capabilities, and many different ways to play depending on the environmental threats. You know those famous submarine movies? Now I understand those tense scenes and why all those decisions in the bridge were made. Highly educational. If you like military sims, give submarines a try. They are surprisingly not boring. If you ever wondered what military vehicle Solid Snake would be, wonder no more! He would be a submarine: Seawolf class. Highly stealthy and capable, based on the most advanced blueprints, with many units planned for construction, but only 3 built. Coincidence? Les Enfants Terribles.
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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
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---{ 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
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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.
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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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Online players
89
Developer
Killerfish Games
Publisher
Killerfish Games
Release
05 Jun 2017
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