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Template:Stub Subsurface is a 2D resource management game being developed by Undertow Games. The game is currently in an alpha release, which will be followed by a full commercial release in 1-2 years.

Plot

Subsurface's time period takes place several hundred years in a future, during an era where humanity is technologically advanced enough to achieve space travel.

The setting of the game is on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, which has become colonized during the space age. Due to the surface of the planet being too irradiated for survival, colonies and outposts have been established under the layer of ice which covers the surface of the moon. Beneath the ice layer is a vast ocean used as a transport network between colonies and as a source for natural resources. The ocean also allowed for the creation of transportation shafts which interconnect the colonies throughout the moon.

The ocean itself is inhabited by a number of aquatic creatures, as well as natural forming cave systems.

Gameplay

Controls

This is a list of the default controls. The keys can be customized in the options menu.

Action	Button
Movement	WASD
Sprint	L-SHIFT
Activate, deactivate or pick up an item.	E
Aim Equipped Item	MOUSE2 Right-Click
Use Equipped Item	MOUSE1 Left-Click
F3 Fn+F3	Open the console.

GUI

Inventory

The inventory consists of 15 slots. Five slots are for equipped items, as indicated by the icons displayed on them; one slot for head, torso, legs and both hands. The other ten slots are for any unequipped items.

Items can be equipped by dragging them into an appropriate slot on the left. Some items take up more than one slot: the railgun shells, for example, require both hands to carry, and the diving suit takes up the head, torso and leg slots.