Underwater video games take place in the submerged environments and offer a variety of swimming levels. These games enable the player to explore the undersea environment from either a third-person perspective, side-scroll, or a first-person view. The world of underwater is full of strange creatures, sea life-form, fishes, and other species. In some games, the player has to establish his underwater empire using various resources, explore the environment, and battle against enemies to defend his realm from being destroyed. The underwater games draw inspiration from the marine creatures’ life cycles, moving through water, from all the wonders and dangers of the ocean. During the journey, the player will encounter beautiful sea creatures, some of them are friendly, but some are really dangerous for the player. These games place heavy emphasis on aquatic navigation environments full of varied and beautiful sea life and interacting with environments and creatures that live there. Underwater games deal with Exploration, Shooting, Action-Adventure, RTS, and Puzzle genres. Here’s the collection of best underwater video games.
#1 Deep Voyage
Deep Voyage is a Puzzle, Match-3, and Single-player video game by Notus Games Ltd for Microsoft Windows, Mac, and mobile platforms. The game takes place in the underwater kingdom and offers an addictive story, revolving around the female protagonist, who dreams of becoming a gardener and winning the design competition. In the game, the player needs to match same colored three or more items to win the tokens for power-ups in the sea garden to advance through the game. There are over 200 eye-popping levels. As the game advances, it becomes difficult to master. The game rewards the player with points for each completed levels and the player can use these points to become the master. To complete each level, the player has limited moves in which the player must clear the screen filled with items of different colors. Deep Voyage offers core features such as immersive Gameplay, Level Difficulty, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#2 Freddi Fish and The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds
Freddi Fish and The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, and Single-player video game developed by Humongous Entertainment. The game offers an underwater environment where it takes place and comes with an exciting story, in which the player must assist the detective Freddi Fish and her friend to solve a variety of cases. During the gameplay, the player can explore the caves, colourful reefs and deep canyons, and struggle to find fascinating places like the castle of the king crab and more. There are various levels available, and each level has a series of puzzles that you have to complete using your logical thinking. The game has more than forty different places to explore, and it enables you to join the detective Freddi and her friend on an epic adventure. Freddi Fish and The Case of the Missing Kelp Seeds includes prominent features such as 500 Secrets to Unlock, 40 Places to Explore, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#3 Shutshimi
Shutshimi is an Action-Adventure, Shoot ‘em up, and Single-player Side-scroll video game developed by Neon Deity Games and published by Choice Provisions for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the fantastic world where it lets you armed with your morphing shotgun, defeat enemies or make your path through hordes of foes and gather power-ups and upgrades as you combat your way through each vicious boss of the game. The game puts you in an endless gameplay experience where you will face non-stoppable waves of enemies. As the hero, you must defend the seven sea from brutal enemies while scoring the best points to unlock additional content. It revolves around rapid-fire gameplay and brings up to five unique weapons to select. There are over forty upgrades available to acquire and lets you combine your unlocked upgrade with weapons for interesting combination. As the game advances, it become tough to play and unlocks additional levels to explore. Shutshimi offers core features such as Underwater Environment, Online Leaderboards, different Weapons Combination, and more.
#4 Dark Parables: The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide
Dark Parables: The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide is an Adventure, Hidden Object, Puzzle-based and Single-player video game created and published by Big Fish Games for Mac and Windows. The plot of the game takes place in the underwater kingdom where the player takes on the role of the detective who must find clues his way through multiple chapters to investigate the strange purple tide. It offers compelling gameplay where the player can interact with the environment, find hidden objects and add them in his inventory to use later to solve the complex puzzles. As the game advances, it becomes difficult to play. According to the story, the player has been called to interrogate the case related to a strange purple tide. The game comes with a series of hidden-object scenes, including fractured objects. The player can use his bonus to unlock the secrets of mad king of Prasino. The game rewards the player with points which he can use to unlock achievements and can level up. Dark Parables: The Little Mermaid and the Purple Tide offers core features such as Concept Art, Strategy Guide, Achievements, Bonuses, a variety of Scenes, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#5 Tasty Blue
Tasty Blue is an Action-Adventure, Side-scroll, and Single-player video game published and created by Dingo Games. The game takes place in an underwater environment and centers on eat ‘em up gameplay. It puts you into the role of a small golden fish who escape into the sea after being overfed by the owner. In the beginning, you can start the match with a small fish, and your aim is to encounter different sea creatures to eat and grow your size. The more you eat, the bigger size you get. You can also play as a shark and a dolphin. It offers more than fifty levels in the story mode with other fifteen levels to play after completing the story mode. The underworld comprises three different environments such as Tropical, Temperate, and Arctic. Easy, Medium and Hard are three levels difficulty available in the game to play. Tasty Blue offers prominent features such as different Levels, Difficulty, Carnage Mode, Co-op, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#6 Narcosis
Narcosis is a Horror-Survival, First-person Perspective and Adventure video game with VR elements created and published by Honor Code, Inc. The game takes place in the surreal world, centers on the depth of Pacific Ocean. The story follows a group of survivors who stuck in the Pacific Ocean with limited tools and low light. They must take a desperate step to reach the surface before their sanity and oxygen give out. The player assumes the role of the character, who is in a dive with the task to explore the underwater environment to collect rare objects and complete variety of puzzles. During the gameplay, the player discovers a lot of creatures, and his primary goal is to finish a variety of tasks to complete quests and reach the surface before the game ends. Survive as long as possible to become the master. The stress situation will increase the intake of oxygen, sound, time and distort sight. Narcosis includes core features such as Terror Verite, Beyond Good and Evil, Hostile Water, Pressure Kills and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#7 Legend of Grimrock 2
Legend of Grimrock 2 is an Action Role-playing, Dungeon Crawling, and Single-player video game created and published by Almost Human. It is the direct sequel to the 2012 entry Legend of Grimrock. The game offers the similar gameplay like its predecessor and focuses on real-time dungeon crawling element and inspired by Dungeon Master. It introduces a set of modern features like non-linear gameplay, underwater environment, exciting levels, and persistent injuries. The player control one to four characters and his main job is to manipulate the environment in first-person perspective. Each character has its unique set of weapons, alchemy, and magic spell. The game world filled with puzzles and complex tasks that the player must solve and progress through the game to earn money. As the player advance, the game becomes more challenging. Legend of Grimrock 2 is the best game for those who are looking for games like Dungeon Master.
#8 Aquaria
Aquaria is an Action-Adventure, Side-Scrolling and 2D Puzzle-Platform video game similar to Child of Light. The game is set in a huge Underwater World full of wonders and ancient treasures. As the protagonist Naija, your task is to simply explore the underwater world, go through the darkest caves, interact with the objects in beautiful sun-lit oases in order to find your lost past, find the treasures hidden for centuries and battle against all the unforgiving and brutal underwater beasts and monsters and uncover the secrets of Aquaria. With an enchanted story, colorful world, surreal soundtracks and visuals, huge amount of creatures to interact with and an amazingly addictive game-play, Aquaria is one of the best games of this specific genre.
#9 Fishdom 2
Fishdom 2 is a Puzzle, Match-3 and Single-player video game developed by Playrix Entertainment. The game offers underwater environment full of sea creatures. It consists of dozens of exciting levels with color tiles. The gameplay is simple and you just match at least three tiles having same shape to smash and earn money. Clear each level by repeating the method and the game unlocks other as you progress through it. There are lots of cute fishes to take care, exotic plants and fabulous ornaments. Through social element, you can share your photos with fellows. The game includes different tanks such as Deep Sea Farm, Evergreen Oasis, Kingdom of Poseidon and more. Earn enough money to unlock other tanks and immerse yourself in puzzle experience. Dozens of Levels, different Species of Fish, Tanks, challenging Puzzles, etc. are the prominent features of the game. Fishdom 2 is the best game for match-3 lovers.
#10 BioShock
Bioshock, developed by 2K Boston in collaboration with 2K Australia and published by 2K Games is a First Person Shooter and an RPG (Role Playing Game) video game playable on PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac OS X, PlayStation 03, Xbox 360 Cloud OnLive and iOS platforms. The game is set in the year 1969 and features the protagonist Jack who after a plane crash near an underwater city Rapture, tries to escape but instead discovers something out of this world. The city stood in the bottom of the sea for decades but its foundations started to crumble with the discovery of a Plasmid named ADAM intended to empower humans with super powers. Jack tries to escape the city but the only possible way to get out of the city gets stormed with the ADAM powered super humans and jack starts fighting with them in order to get out. By the use of different weapons and the Plasmid, Jack fends off the enemy and frees a bunch of the last remaining sane people who then turn the city’s defensive systems against the enemies. Jack continues his journey, keeps defeating the foes and finally gets out of the city by utilizing the stealth and melee techniques along with the use of different weapons. BioShock with a horror survival and biopunk (a mixture of Biotechnology and Punk) themed environment, a brilliant story-line and quite exciting game-play provides with an amazing FPS gaming experience. Do try it out.
#11 Subnautica
Subnautica is a brand new Open World, Adventure and Survival video game set in the underwater world of an alien planet. Subnautica is set in a futuristic Era of the 22nd century, and it offers a futuristic experience. It refers to a period when Humanity started exploring and inhibiting the alien planets. To colonize the planets, various advanced vessels were sent on Exploration Missions. One of the Vessels named as Aurora was also forwarded to an exploration and terraforming mission to an alien water world known as 4546B. The vessel was on its way to a station on the planet when an unknown energy source disabled it. With a hull badly damaged, and all the systems failed, the vessel crash landed into the water and sank to the ocean floor. This is where the player character gets into the play. After getting out of the life pod, the palyer must explore the world, find means of survival (Food, Drinking Water, Oxygen to breath, etc.) in an alien world, defeat all the underwater alien life forms and survive by evolving in the environment. Resource collection has its own importance in the game because without resources there is no survival. Subnautica offers various game modes such as Freedom Mode, Hardcore Mode, Creative Mode as well as unique Crafting abilities, great upgrades, beautiful graphics and addictive gameplay.