Pressure Express

Cooperative Submarine Delivery — Prototype Vertical Slice

The world drowned. You didn't — you weren't alive to begin with.

You and your crew of Delivery Droids work for Pressure Express, the post-flood logistics company keeping what's left of civilization connected. Climb into your sub, plot a course through the deep, and deliver the package. Try not to sink. Try not to get fired.

Deliver under pressure. Survive the chaos. Laugh through the mess.

⚠️ Heads Up — This Is a Prototype

This build is our First Playable / Must Have milestone. The full game is in active pre-production, and what's here is the skeleton of the experience: the sub, the core systems, and the chaos of running it with friends. Polish, content, and our headline rogue-lite progression are coming in later milestones.

What's In This Build

• Co-op submarine piloting (1–4 players) — every machine is fully multiplayer-synced, with real interdependencies between stations. Driving the sub heats the engine exponentially, systems feed into each other, and no one player can hold the ship together alone.
• Station-based machine control — walk up to the edge of a station to interact. Each machine has its own short mini-game (hold / mash / rhythm style).
• Procedural map & node generation — every run lays out a fresh path between the start and the destination.
• Environmental obstacles — generated rock formations and terrain to weave around (or crash into, your call).
• One delivery mission, one package — pilot from A to B. That's the prototype loop.
• Forced losing conditions — the run fails if temperature overheats or oxygen hits zero. Note: oxygen doesn't have a real gameplay purpose in this build yet — these are mock-up fail states for prototype testing and will be replaced with proper systems next milestone.
• Multiplayer via Steam — Steam must be running and logged in for multiplayer to work. Keep it open in the background.
• Audio & SFX pass — sound design is in.
• Proximity Voice Chat  — usable voice chat in game.
  

What's NOT In This Build

• ❌ No enemies — environmental obstacles only
• ❌ No rogue-lite progression — this is one of our headline features for the full release, but runs don't carry forward yet
• ❌ No in-game tutorial — see the controls section below
• ❌ Only one package and one mission

How to Play

Since the tutorial isn't in yet, here's what you need:

• Move: WASD
• Interact with a station: walk up to its edge — you'll see the prompt
• Mini-games: follow the on-screen cue (hold / mash / rhythm)
• Coordinate: no single player can run the ship — talk to your crew, divide stations, yell when something's on fire

Road Map

Feedback Welcome

This is the earliest the game has been in anyone's hands outside the team. Bug reports, weird crashes, "this felt good / this felt bad" notes — all of it helps. Leave a comment, drop a rating, tell us what broke.