Scarce is a fully cooperative or competitive experience where players need to finish the construction of the enormous nuclear plant that powers their floating city. Each player controls a dragonfly ship, a vehicle that can travel in the air, on the ocean surface, and in the deep ocean. Players can upgrade and manage the crew and modules of their individual ships to maximize resource gathering. All this while avoiding a doomsday cult, hellbent on destroying the city. The cult has its own city and several scouting forces already in the vicinity of the player city. Players will need to move carefully to avoid enemies and be time efficient to get their city moving before the enemy city arrives. The deep sea is not safe either as strange creatures lurk in the dark.