Murky Divers, the co-op underwater horror game from French indie studio Embers, is coming to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S on June 30, 2026. Already available on PC where it holds a "Very Positive" rating on Steam, the console release will include full cross-play support across all three platforms, letting crews of up to eight players dive together regardless of where they're playing. A physical retail edition for PlayStation 5, dubbed the PharmaCorps. Edition, is also in the works through a partnership with Maximum Entertainment, with pre-orders going live at participating retailers across North America, Europe and Australia.
The setup is beautifully grim. Players are contractors working for Pharma Corps., a corporation that needs its abandoned underwater laboratories scrubbed clean of evidence. Specifically, the evidence is corpses, the remains of failed experiments that need to be hauled out of sunken wrecks and fed into a shredder back on the submarine. That's the job. Extract the bodies, destroy the proof, earn credits, and try not to become another body on the ocean floor. The tone walks a line between genuine dread and dark comedy, the kind of game where you're dragging a cadaver through a flooded corridor while something moves in the dark behind you and your crewmate is screaming over proximity voice chat about running out of oxygen.
The core of Murky Divers is the expedition loop. Players choose a submarine that fits their crew size, from a small sub for solo or duo runs up to a large sub accommodating five to eight players for full chaotic operations. From there, you coordinate to pilot the vessel toward one of numerous abandoned labs scattered across the ocean floor. Piloting is deliberately difficult because the submarine is blind. There are no windows. You rely on sonar and crew stations to navigate, meaning everyone aboard has a role and communication isn't optional. Reaching the dive site is only the first challenge. Once inside the procedurally generated wrecks, players use a caddie to extract dead bodies while managing a limited oxygen supply that drains faster than you'd like. The wrecks are filled with creatures that will kill you, and the open ocean between sites has its own dangers the crew needs to identify and avoid while in transit. Police also patrol the depths, adding another layer of threat beyond the biological horrors.
Surviving an expedition means credits, and credits mean preparation for the next one. Players can spend what they earn on items like Agent NUTS, a shopping cart, or a scooter, alongside upgrades such as see-through vision, body part detectors, and a grappling hook. The submarine itself can be enhanced with modules allowing greater diving depth, bigger fishing nets, and other improvements. There's also a cosmetic layer: diving suits unlocked through completed missions and activities. The progression feeds directly back into the loop, each successful run making the next expedition slightly less suicidal while the game keeps pushing players toward deeper and more dangerous sites.
What holds it all together is the tension between teamwork and panic. Eight players crammed into a submarine with no visibility, piloting by sonar toward a wreck full of things that want them dead, arguing over who handles the shredder and who watches the oxygen gauge. The game launched into Early Access in June 2024 and quickly found an audience among streamers and co-op communities, with Embers maintaining momentum through regular content updates before reaching its 1.0 release in June 2025. Console players will get the complete version with all expedition sites, items, and creatures added since launch.
Murky Divers is a game about corporate cleanup at the bottom of the ocean, where the job is disgusting, the employer is worse, and the things living in the dark don't care about your quota. Every expedition starts with a plan and ends with whatever your crew can salvage from the chaos: bodies shredded, credits earned, oxygen tanks empty.