Under The Waves

挺好的游戏，前期水声和背景音乐让我整个人都安静了下来，景色也不错，很悠闲，慢节奏的海底探险，就是后面在狭窄的管道开潜艇太脑溢血了，处处碰壁，不过胜在价格便宜，那也没啥挑的了。

Very good atmosphere with a decent story. I really wish the game had spent more time developing a connection with J0 but the game pushed me to more of a ''Walking Sim''. Overall, the music, atmosphere, and some parts that I can’t spoil were really well done, there's a LOT of subtlety which I imagine was due to their budget. While it isn’t open world, it can definitely feel like it at times, since you can explore a huge portion of the ocean, discover secrets, and even find some achievements along the way. Unfortunately, the game crashed around four times while I was playing. I’m not sure what caused it, but I kept pushing through and eventually it seemed to fix itself. I’m not complaining too much since the game was very cheap for me, just pointing it out in case anyone else runs into the same issue. 7.5/10

Under The Waves is honestly one of those games that I started without expecting too much and ended up really enjoying. You play as Stan, a professional diver working alone deep underwater in the North Sea. He is trying to deal with a very difficult moment from his past and basically uses the isolation of his job to escape from everything. I don't want to say too much because the story is definitely something you should experience yourself. The atmosphere is easily my favorite part of the game. Being completely alone underwater, exploring abandoned places and hearing the sounds of the ocean around you just feels amazing. Sometimes it's peaceful and relaxing and other times it can feel really uncomfortable, especially when you're very deep and surrounded by nothing but darkness. I also really enjoyed the diving and exploration. Using the small submarine to travel around the map, leaving it to explore different locations and searching for resources was actually very satisfying for me. The underwater world feels vast and I often found myself exploring places even when I didn't really need to. The story is slow, but personally I didn't mind it at all. This is definitely not a game for someone looking for constant action. It's more about the atmosphere, isolation and understanding what Stan is going through. Some moments genuinely made me stop and think about the story. The graphics and soundtrack are also beautiful and fit the game perfectly. There were many moments where I just looked around at the ocean because the game can honestly look amazing. Of course, there are some small bugs and the movement can feel a little weird sometimes, but nothing that ruined my experience. Overall, Under The Waves was a really beautiful and emotional experience. As someone who enjoys story games and also really likes diving, this game was basically perfect for me Definitely worth playing if you enjoy slow, atmospheric and emotional games. 9/10 from me.

Under the Waves — Review The game is fantastic in one word — the history, the game music, and the environment all come together beautifully. At first, the game might feel a bit boring to get into, but it quickly becomes very interesting once you're in. It's not the most mouse-and-keyboard friendly experience — controlling the Seamoth was a bit hard and a little confusing at times. Overall, I'd recommend buying and playing this game. If you catch it on a sale, you're getting a great deal. Rating: 8.5/10 ⭐

Didn't quite scratch the itch of being immersed in an isolating and vast unknown, nor the enjoyable routine of foraging and exploration I was expecting out of a game set in a seascape. Your character gets a "trauma vocation" ala Firewatch (Oceanwatch), as you work with big corpo to mantain undersea operations and prevent disasters. Devs were funded by what seems like a ecological activist collective, self-promoting and having their messages getting dropped in pretty heavy-handedly. Almost every resource collection has your character sputtering commentary about ocean waste, and there is even a point even where your player claims to be "getting in bed with the enemy" for being on big corpo's payroll, as you betray the lamentations of your ecologically-conscious scientist wife. As someone who does volunteer with ecoactivism I don't exactly disagree with the messaging but it [i]waters[/i] down the gravitas and spunk of the plot significantly with how often it gets hammered in. Controls and camera is sticky and clunky, even out of a submersible. Wildlife is not interactible, save for plot devices. The resources you gather barely amounts to anything useful for progression. This makes exploration a chore at times and unrewarding. Probably the worst offender has to be how unbearable the player character is to follow. The art style is in an uncanny valley between low poly and high fidelity and his face comes across as abominably ugly and oversized. Doesn't even have a good looking cheeks in that wetsuit with how much you'll be staring at it in third person. He also has the weakest voice acting compared to the side characters where it feels like he's mumbling a lot and sounds almost as flat as I would be at singing sea shanties. Part of me still feels like I was on the cusp of an interesting plot development, but I can't bring myself back to enjoy it any further once I dropped it. Not a bad experience but exceedingly mediocre in all aspects, with the exception of world aesthetics. It is a visually beautiful game otherwise.

So good. Nice soundtrack. This one makes me miss diving.

It's atmospheric and quite inventive with the underwater environments. But it crashed on me and required me the replay quite a long part of it in the hope that it wouldnt crash at the same time again, no thank you! The story is told a bit too slow and its very much a walking sim rather than a real game.

Once again a game crippled by not having an fov slider