Life Below Brings Coral Reef City-Building To Tokyo Game Show 2026
Four months after its Steam launch, Life Below's TGS booth is a push to put the game back in front of Japanese players who can already buy it.
Reporting from 1 source: Automaton.
Megapop and Kasedo Games showed Life Below, an ocean ecosystem city-building simulation, at the Norwegian Games booth at Tokyo Game Show 2026, held from September 17 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba. Players use a central Reef Heart to place corals and shellfish, attract more than 40 marine species, and restore a dying sea. The PC Steam release arrived on May 26, 2026, with Japanese support.
The reef is the city. Players place bivalves, sprouting corals, and Moon Corals around a central Reef Heart, which sets the size of the manageable area and produces the energy everything runs on. The twist is that new facilities require biodiversity, which only accumulates once a range of organisms settles in. That pulls players toward algae corals, sea anemones, and crafted lures rather than a straight build order.
Megapop developed the game with marine biology experts. It is published by Kasedo Games.
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