Barotrauma: Europa

Barotrauma takes place in the distant future, during an era where humanity is technologically advanced enough to achieve manned interplanetary space travel. The setting of the game is on Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons, which has become colonized since its initial arrival in 2022. Over many decades, colonies and outposts have been forced to establish under the layer of ice covering the surface of the moon due to the surface being too irradiated for survival. 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 that interconnected the colonies throughout the moon. The ocean itself is inhabited by a number of aquatic creatures, as well as naturally forming cave systems. Over time, the colonies of Europa became more distant and disconnected from Earth, until fifty years ago, sometime after the initial colonization of Europa, all contact was mysteriously lost with the rest of civilization for reasons unknown. The people stranded on Europa were left to fend for themselves, cut off from the supply chain of Earth. With limited resources and the ever advancing Jovian radiation, the abandoned settlers were forced to delve deeper and deeper into the vast, deadly oceans of Europa.