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Overview
Murky Divers is a co-op diving horror game from Strasbourg-based studio Embers, released December 12, 2024, across PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and Epic Games Store. The premise is grimly funny on the surface: your employer had some experiments go sideways in their underwater facility, and now they need a cleanup crew. That cleanup crew is you and up to 15 other players, suiting up, diving down, and hauling corpses back to the submarine before whatever is lurking in the dark decides you look like the next experiment.
The game sits in a space that feels genuinely distinct. Lethal Company proved there was an audience hungry for co-op jobs-gone-wrong horror, and Murky Divers carves its own niche by trading derelict moons for flooded, pressure-crushed underwater labs. The tension comes not just from the monsters but from the environment itself. Visibility is limited, communication gets messy with a full crew, and the clock is always ticking.
Gameplay and mechanics
The core loop in Murky Divers centers on coordinated dives from a shared submarine. Players navigate to the abandoned facility, split tasks, retrieve bodies and evidence of the failed experiments, and make it back to the sub without losing crew members to the creatures patrolling the depths. The game supports up to 16 online players, which means the chaos scales dramatically depending on how organized your group is.
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Key mechanics include:
- Submarine navigation and crew coordination
- Body retrieval and evidence removal
- Monster avoidance and survival under pressure
- Limited visibility and resource management
- Cooperative task delegation
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The PS5 version takes advantage of DualSense haptics and adaptive triggers, adding a tactile layer to the tension when something is close. That kind of physical feedback in a horror context is a meaningful touch, not a checkbox feature.
World and setting
The underwater setting does a lot of heavy lifting here. Abandoned research labs beneath the ocean carry a specific kind of dread that surface-level horror games rarely replicate. The pressure, the darkness, the sense that you are somewhere humans were never supposed to stay for long. Embers leans into that atmosphere hard, and the abyssal creatures you encounter feel like they belong to this world rather than being dropped in from a generic monster roster.
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The storyline framing, working for a corporation desperate to erase its mistakes, gives the game a dark satirical edge without ever getting preachy about it. You are the cleanup crew. You know what happened here was wrong. You do it anyway because that is the job.
Is Murky Divers worth playing with a full group?
At $9.99 on PlayStation, Murky Divers sits at a price point that makes it easy to convince friends to buy in. With a 4.69 out of 5 rating from over 100 PS Store players, the reception has been genuinely positive. The ESRB Mature 17+ rating covers blood, gore, and violence, so the game does not sanitize what it is.
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For groups who have exhausted Lethal Company runs or want co-op horror that trades jump scares for sustained dread, Murky Divers delivers a focused, well-priced experience with enough player capacity to make every session feel different. The combination of cooperative body-retrieval gameplay and underwater survival horror gives it a hook that is specific enough to stick.