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In Other Waters (Windows, macOS, Switch) is a strange and beautiful game: part biological survey, part mystery novel, and unlike anything else I’ve played. You take on the role of an AI that awakens in a dive suit with no memory of its origins. The suit has been discovered by Ellery Vas, a xenobiologist answering a distress call sent from the ocean planet of Gliese 677Cc by Minae Nomura. Minae, her former colleague and former lover, disappeared years previously with technology she stole from Baikal, the interplanetary mining corporation that has led humanity’s expansion away from a dying Earth. Piloting the dive suit, you see the environment through a radar-like view, guided by Ellery’s evocative descriptions of everything she sees (and accompanied by a soothing ambient soundtrack). This is not another dead world, but one of rich and complex ecosystems. How could Minae have kept secret the first known alien life? As you help Ellery catalogue the biology of the vast ocean, your search for Minae uncovers other, long-buried secrets, dark as the abyssal plain.