Co-op island adventure game NAUTUS announced for PC

Publisher Arc Games and Have a Nice Death developer Magic Design Studios have announced NAUTUS, a cooperative island adventure game. It will launch in Early Access for PC via Steam in 2027.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

From the indie studio behind Have a Nice Death and Unruly Heroes comes NAUTUS, a quirky underwater adventure where the surface is your cozy sanctuary, but the ocean floor is a whole different beast.

Explore the abyss in your upgradable submarine, face strange creatures, gather resources, and recover mysterious artifacts to uncover what happened to the N.A.U.T.U.S. research team.

Return to the surface to craft, build, and befriend its eccentric inhabitants before diving even deeper—solo or with up to three friends in online cooperative play.

Watch the announcement trailer below. View the first screenshots at the gallery.