In Other Waters
Fair · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $14.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 4.8h
- Value
- $3.12/hr
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, 2 GB VRAM, 696 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. What will you discover together?
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.74, set in September 2024. Its cuts run 70 percent off as a rule. There have been 64 in the 7 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 80 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 85 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Gorogoa ($14.99, scores 72) beats it on value, while it beats Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP ($7.99, scores 44).
The press gave it 74; the people who bought it give it 87 percent. A 13-point gap in the buyer's favour.
This site sampled 537 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 60 percent of the 313 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 15 percent of everything written about it.
Players
4 players online when we last checked, on Sep 27, 12:56 UTC.
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Really novel and cool gameplay/presentation. The marine ecosystem they designed is really interesting and I read every bit of lore I could find, something I don't usually do.
Fascinating alien planet and ecosystem exploration story. Theres a few mysteries to uncover lots of bio samples to take and observations to make. Travelling around in game is a bit of a pain though, it really stretches out the gameplay time without much reward if you're backtracking or trying to remember how you got somewhere.
Jumping into this game after playing Gareth's other games Citizen Sleeper 1 and 2, I believe this was one of his first projects before the Citizen Sleeper series. I actually went in blind on this much like I did the first Citizen Sleeper and while I did enjoy my short time with this one, I can definitely say it didn't have the same impact that the Citizen Sleeper games did. It is a simple game, you are exploring the...
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No data upstream: achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
In Other Waters scores 52/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/890720/in-other-watersReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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