4.6
159 reviews
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Teen
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About this game

Play the game the movie is based on!

Iron Lung is a short dread-driven submarine horror game from the developer of DUSK, Chop Goblins, and Squirrel Stapler, and being adapted to movie by Markiplier in 2026.

Set entirely within a claustrophobic one-man submarine nicknamed the "Iron Lung," you must blindly navigate an ocean of blood to take photographs of key locations, and hope whatever lives below doesn't find you.

There is only a single porthole on the sub, and it needs to be closed due to depth pressure, so you have to navigate purely via an incomplete map, proximity sensors, sound, and a primitive external camera which can be used to take the pictures you need to complete your mission, or to get a grainy low resolution visual of what's happening outside.

Success will require resourcefulness and patience.

THE STORY:

Decades ago, every known star and habitable planet mysteriously vanished, along with whatever and whoever happened to be on them, leaving behind an empty universe of asteroids and lifeless moons where the only remnants of humanity are those who were on space stations or starships at the time. With supplies gradually dwindling and infrastructure falling into disrepair, the survivors have spent the subsequent years frantically searching for any trace of remaining natural resources. Up until now they have been unsuccessful...

Then, a mysterious anomaly known as a Blood Ocean (which is exactly what it sounds like) was discovered on an otherwise barren moon. It's not the first Blood Ocean found since the vanishing, but initial scans show a collection of potentially useful anomalous locations in a deep undersea (underblood?) trench that require further investigation.

And you're the unlucky sap who gets to investigate, in an aging submarine cobbled together from rusty space station parts.

Find your way to the marked locations, photograph whatever you find there, and try to finish before the sub collapses around you... or you're discovered by whatever lurks in the blood...
Updated on
Dec 19, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.6
153 reviews
Derelict Account
March 6, 2026
Good but brief. Takes approximately 1 hour to complete in one sitting after you get used to navigating. Dunno if it has much replay value but it's definitely worth playing once. Kinda wish there could be a more fleshed out game built on the same concept. If this had a much bigger map and a much longer playtime with the same "blind" navigation, I think the limited visual feedback could survive a long haul. There's plenty of room for imagination between photos. Iron Lung 2 LET'S GO.
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De'Andre Wright
March 6, 2026
very great game, it makes me want to make a game myself but I know I pretty much can't 🥱 this game is slow and sometimes makes you want to do something else other than play it but that's pretty much the point, like that's how it keeps the creepy vibe. the end was so brutal and I wanna know why the anomalies were playing with their food 🤨 like only at the end I see the eye and the other creature that breaks in the SM-13 to stop me from taking that last picture...of what 🤔 I didn't get to see.
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Morgan Armstrong
February 7, 2026
I'm garbage at most games but I had to get it because the suspense and claustrophobia is such a fascinating atmosphere to try and immerse myself in (obviously a lot harder with a phone screen than a cinema) even with a 7'' screen, though I did have some difficulty reading the map from a Mobile-screen size. If possible, maybe some kind of update where it's possible to get some kind of indicator of where you are on the map? Or the ability to zoom in? I know nothing about game development so idk
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What’s new

Seem to have fixed an error where FOV would be set to a very large number sometimes on exiting.