Leicester, UK – 12th August 2025
Kasedo Games & Megapop will debut a playable demo of the sub-aquatic ‘reef’ builder, Life Below, next week at Gamescom 2025.
Developed by Norwegian studio, Megapop, and written by award winning video game writer Rhianna Pratchett, Life Below delivers a fresh and unique approach to the city building genre.
Visitors to the booth will be tasked, as guardian Thalassa, to protect the Heart of the Reef and reignite life in the deep. By channeling its energy and growing new coral structures, she must bring life back to the underwater world before it’s too late.
The Life Below booth can be found in Hall 7.1 (A02)
Life Below Features:
- Navigate the push and pull between expansion of the reef and the challenges they will need to grow and evolve new solutions to.
- Seek out new wildlife through the crafting and luring systems, while maintaining habitats and food resources.
- The rules underwater have changed rapidly. Find solutions with the aid of the corals of the reef as well as permanent and visiting wildlife.
- Navigate heatwaves, increased acidity, garbage clouds, jellyfish migrations and other constantly changing hazards.
- See the reef from three perspectives – close to the wildlife, classic top-down and the whole playable map.
- Experience the spectacle of life underwater, collecting species in the collection book as you go.
- Narrative written by award-winning video games writer Rhianna Pratchett.
- One of the most accessible city builders ever. Developed in conjunction with consultant Arevya and the charity Special Effect UK to evaluate accessibility features for the game and how we can implement these in impactful ways.
Life Below is coming to Windows PC in 2026.
You can watch their Announcement Trailer and Dev Demo videos below: