CUP CODE STUDIO PRESENTS
Build your ship. Face the deep. Extract alive.
On a world covered by oceans, nothing is guaranteed. BENTH is a first-person multiplayer extraction and survival game set on a mysterious ocean planet. Gather salvage, build your ship, arm it, then sail for the abandoned zones in search of resources and secrets.
Every expedition is a risk. And nothing is truly yours until you make it back.
About BENTH
In BENTH you start with a simple boat made of old iron and second-hand parts, then slowly turn it into a vessel that reflects how you play.
Fit storage, cannons, pumps, engines and diving gear. Lay out its compartments and decks, and prepare for what waits out on the ocean.
Beyond the harbour lie shipwrecks and sunken industrial sites, resources worth the risk, and other crews hunting for the same salvage.
You can fight, explore or pull out. But you have to decide before the storm catches you.
Core Features
BUILD
Start with a small hull and unlock larger ones through research. Use modular building pieces to create bridges, storage, workshops and gun platforms, and save your designs to come back to on later expeditions.
SAIL
Steer through calm water, narrow channels and rough seas. Watch the weather, use sonar to find locations, and choose your route carefully as the ocean changes around you.
DIVE
Leave the ship and descend in search of wrecks, resources and forgotten facilities. Pack oxygen tanks, lights and salvage tools, and never go further than your gear allows.
FIGHT
Defend your ship with naval guns and fight with personal weapons on deck and inside compartments. Underwater, diving tools and weapons made for the deep become part of how you survive.
SALVAGE
Look for engines, metal components, devices and rare resources. Some salvage is small enough to carry; heavy equipment needs a crane and a ship that can haul it.
EXTRACT
Reaching an extraction point is not instant safety. Your ship has to stay inside the station’s range until extraction completes, while attacks and the storm keep coming.
The Story
Humanity came to this planet in search of resources and opportunity. On a world covered in water, they built harbours, industrial platforms, research stations and shipping routes.
Small settlements grew into a network of facilities reaching from the surface down into the depths. Ships carried equipment, fuel and workers between sites, while research teams found things no one had seen before.
Then came the collapse.
Strange storms appeared, communications failed, and whole ships vanished. Facilities sank, harbours were abandoned, and supply lines were cut.
The disturbance was named the Rift Tide. Its true nature is still unknown, and the ocean keeps reshaping the sea lanes and safe zones.
Years after the collapse, all that remains of the industrial age are wrecks, broken machinery and empty ports. But what the past left behind became a living for a new generation.
Salvagers gather iron, timber, engines and old weapons, and rebuild boats from mismatched parts: ships made to survive more than to look good. Some sail over the ruins of settlements. Others come back loaded with what they could recover. Many never come back at all.
Some research facilities still transmit signals, and strange readings sometimes come from sites that should have been abandoned long ago. There are stories of old technology, rare materials and creatures recorded in no archive.
No one knows exactly what caused the collapse, or why some machines in the deep seem never to have stopped running. With every new expedition, another piece of the truth surfaces.
In BENTH, you are one of the salvagers. Not a chosen hero sent to save the planet: a person trying to survive, and to build something worth coming back for.
The World
The ocean shifts from shallows littered with small wrecks to dark depths hiding unknown facilities and creatures. Every zone has its own resources, dangers and landmarks.
THE SHALLOWS
Fairly open water, old buoys, the remains of boats and reefs near the surface. A good place to learn to sail, dive and recover basic materials, but not free of danger.
GRAVEWATER
Broken cargo ships, sunken cranes and scattered containers. Abandoned compartments hide equipment that can reshape your ship, and the wrecks make good cover for hiding and ambushes.
GLASS REEF
Strange formations, glowing reefs and creatures moving between rocks and caves. Unusual resources grow here, but some of the locals are sensitive to light and sound.
IRON REACH
Platforms, factories and pumping stations that no longer do their original jobs. Heavy equipment and industrial stores lie everywhere, along with old security systems that still work.
SUNKEN VAULT
Research stations, archives and sealed corridors now underwater. Getting inside may take specialist tools, restarting machines and breaking old barriers.
THE HOLLOW
Zones far from the light, where visibility drops, strange signals appear and large shapes move in the dark. Exceptional resources lie here, but getting in and out takes real preparation.
KeelCore
Every ship in BENTH starts from a base hull and grows through research and design. With the KeelCore system, building is not about picking a ready-made ship: you shape its layout, functions and look.
01
Choose floors, walls, storage, compartments, weapon platforms and workshops. Use ready-made shapes or adjust modules to fit the space, then save them as your own blueprints.
02
Start with a small build area and progress through the ship research tree to unlock bigger hulls. Each size has its own strengths, costs and limits, so the biggest ship is not the best choice for every trip.
03
Engines, pumps, cannons and navigation gear are real systems on board. They can be damaged, and need maintenance, repair or replacement.
04
A hit to the hull can flood a compartment. Seal the bulkheads, start the pumps and repair the damage before you lose control of the ship.
You can lose the ship. The knowledge and blueprints you earned stay with you.
The Expedition
In the harbour, choose your hull or adjust your blueprint. Fit the compartments and equipment you need and decide what the ship is for.
Load weapons, ammunition, fuel, repair and diving tools. Decide how much you are willing to risk.
Head out and use maps and sonar to reach wrecks, platforms, reefs and submerged sites.
Gather resources, move equipment onto the ship, and deal with creatures, guardians and hostile crews.
Find an extraction station and keep your ship in range until the countdown ends. Protect the crew and the cargo to the last second.
Back home, use what you brought to craft gear, repair your ship, unlock new research and get ready for the next trip.
Combat & Survival
Players face many threats: hostile salvager crews, armed ships, old defence systems and sea creatures. Every environment changes the fight.
Use pistols, SMGs, rifles, shotguns and precision weapons, plus melee tools, to defend yourself and storm locations.
Mount cannons on compatible platforms, carry ammunition to them and fire them yourself. Disabling a ship’s engine or damaging its equipment can be worth more than trying to sink it.
Water changes how you move, see and fight. Use diving tools, spearguns and the right gear to defend yourself, or avoid the threat and get back to your ship.
Watch your oxygen, depth and gear. Survival is not about bullets alone: it is about preparation, knowing the environment, and pulling back at the right moment.
Rift Tide
An irregular storm front moves across the expedition area and shifts the safe sea lanes over time. The route that took you to the wreck may not be the way home.
Read the signals, use your navigation gear, and choose between chasing a bigger haul or leaving with what you already have.
The real danger is not always ahead of you. Sometimes it is the way back that has closed.
Craft & Progress
Gather metal plates, mechanical parts, wiring, devices and marine materials, and turn them into useful gear. Use the harbour workshops to make ship parts, repair tools, weapons and diving equipment, and unlock research for new modules, engines, storage and fittings.
Progress is not only about hitting harder. It is about widening your options.
Solo or Crew
Sail alone in a small, easy-to-run ship, or team up with a crew to run a bigger one. While one player steers, another works the guns and a third repairs equipment or hauls salvage. No one is locked into a role: crew members switch jobs as the situation demands.
But teamwork does not remove the risk. Every minute a crew spends in a dangerous spot gives other crews a chance to find it.
When the ship goes down
If the ship sinks, any equipment and cargo you did not save can be lost. In the right conditions, a survivor can grab a small emergency case holding two eligible items and try to reach a personal rescue.
The case is not just an inventory slot: you carry it through the water, and you can lose it on the way. You might come back with everything, with enough for a fresh start, or with nothing. That is the risk of extraction.
Crew Rewards
When a crew makes it back, the shared salvage appears on a dedicated split screen. Crew members pick what they want and agree how to share resources, with a fair way to settle disputes over rare items. Personal extracted belongings stay with their owners under the game’s rules.
Media
The trailer and real gameplay footage will appear here when they are ready. We will not show made-up images as if they were the game.
Playtest
When part of the game is ready to try, we open a test for a limited number of playtesters and listen to their feedback before we go on.
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Pick the test and tell us about your PC and when you can play. Acceptance is decided by a person at the studio.
Accepted testers find their access in the portal (a Steam key or a session time), and send bug reports and feedback from the same place.
No test is open right now. Sign in with Steam and agree to e-mails in “My account”, or tick the test-builds option in the newsletter below, and we will write when a test opens.
FAQ
A first-person multiplayer PvPvE extraction game that combines ship building, naval combat, diving, salvage and survival.
Yes. The design aims to support solo play and small crews, with ships and gear for each style.
Yes. You can meet other players and crews during expeditions, alongside environmental and AI enemies.
Building starts from an upgradable base hull, with modules, rooms and equipment you can fit, customise and save as blueprints.
Yes. Naval combat is a core part of the design, built on ship weapons, where they are mounted, loading ammunition and managing hull damage.
Yes. Diving and underwater exploration are central to the experience, with oxygen, depth, resources, wrecks and sea creatures.
Your ship reaches an extraction station and stays within range until the process completes, while still exposed to danger.
You can lose the hull, equipment and cargo from that run, but permanent research and blueprints are kept. You may be able to rescue some small items under certain conditions.
How practical it is to reach a zone depends on sea conditions, your equipment and how dangerous the depths are. Research unlocks gear for harder expeditions.
BENTH is in development. No release date has been announced.
PC is the initial target platform. Availability and supported stores will be announced through official channels.
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We are developing BENTH to bring naval engineering, exploration, combat and extraction together in one connected world. Follow development, and meet new ships, zones, creatures and systems as they become ready to show.
CUP CODE STUDIO is the studio developing BENTH. We are building an experience centred on interacting systems, freedom in ship design, and risk and survival, in an ocean world with its own art direction. Discover CUP CODE STUDIO
Development notice: BENTH is in development. The features and systems described here are the vision we are working towards, and some may change before final release.