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A smuggling game about running cargo past a surveillance state and turning it into money you can actually spend, in a world where everyone else is out on the same water.

Short

Dead Water is a modern-day maritime crime game set in a persistent online world. Load a boat, run contraband through a fictional archipelago, and get it past patrols, drones and satellites that are building a case against you. Cargo is worth nothing until it is sold, and cash is worth nothing until it is clean.

Long

Dead Water is a first-person crime game set on the shipping lanes of a fictional archipelago called the Shallows, in a persistent world shared with everyone else running the same water. A hull has more jobs than one person has hands for: somebody has the wheel, somebody reads the radar, somebody works the cargo. Between you and a payday sit a regional coast guard, a joint task force, private security and other crews, all of them corruptible and none of them stupid.

Heat is not a star meter. It is an evidence picture assembled from transponder logs, satellite passes, witnesses and eventually your own financial records, and different kinds of evidence clear in different ways. Outrunning a patrol does nothing about the paperwork.