Life Below is an underwater city-builder for lovers of Finding Nemo and haters of coral reef extinction

My sherry-swilling, moustache-twirling armchair theorist understanding of ocean-wide coral decline is that addressing it will require a, forgive me, seachange in attitudes towards the "natural" realm we generally position as external and other, ripe for the despoiling - a new way of inhabiting and co-constituting this mote caught in a sunbeam, this stargazing planet from which lamentation is spun, this blithe blue impossibility we (but who are "we"???) call home. Failing that, perhaps we can ask some magic Pixar squid to play underwater SimCity. Sorry, this is my fairly jaded introduction to Life Below, the latest game from Trolls vs Vikings devs Megapop and Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus publishers Kasedo, which I do genuinely find intriguing in that it is trying to do two, somewhat incompatible things. Read more

May 28, 2025 - 12:00
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Life Below is an underwater city-builder for lovers of Finding Nemo and haters of coral reef extinction

My sherry-swilling, moustache-twirling armchair theorist understanding of ocean-wide coral decline is that addressing it will require a, forgive me, seachange in attitudes towards the "natural" realm we generally position as external and other, ripe for the despoiling - a new way of inhabiting and co-constituting this mote caught in a sunbeam, this stargazing planet from which lamentation is spun, this blithe blue impossibility we (but who are "we"???) call home. Failing that, perhaps we can ask some magic Pixar squid to play underwater SimCity.

Sorry, this is my fairly jaded introduction to Life Below, the latest game from Trolls vs Vikings devs Megapop and Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus publishers Kasedo, which I do genuinely find intriguing in that it is trying to do two, somewhat incompatible things.

Read more