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2023USK 12PC, PlayStation, Xbox76 % positive29.99 €

A narrative underwater adventure where you play grieving diver Stan in a retro-futuristic 1970s North Sea, taking on jobs while confronting loss and isolation. Its calm deep-sea atmosphere and psychological story take center stage.

  • Emotional impact
  • Strong, story-driven narrative
  • Lavish presentation
  • Dark, serious atmosphere
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Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Under the Waves special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Deliver Us the Moon

91 %Match

2019USK 12PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck verified87 % positive24.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Under the Waves: emotional impact, a strong story and lavish production.

A story-driven sci-fi adventure where you play a lone astronaut exploring abandoned lunar bases, solving environmental puzzles and uncovering what happened to humanity's last hope. Atmospheric and linear, focused on mystery and narrative rather than combat.

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Everybody's Gone to the Rapture

Emotional impact

A quiet exploration game set in an empty English village, where you piece together what happened to its residents through ghostly light figures, radio voices and environmental details. It relies on atmosphere, music and intimate human stories, with no combat at all.

What Remains of Edith Finch

Emotional impact

A moving narrative game where you wander the sprawling Finch family home and relive each relative's final moments through short vignettes, each with its own inventive gameplay twist. Melancholic, creative, and unforgettable in just a couple of hours.

1000xResist

Dark, serious atmosphere

A story-driven sci-fi drama where you play Watcher, sifting through memories to uncover a dark secret about the ALLMOTHER. It mixes visual novel and walking sim elements into an intense tale about identity, legacy and diaspora.

The Invincible

Lots to discover

An atmospheric sci-fi adventure based on Stanisław Lem, where you play scientist Yasna exploring an alien planet in a retro atompunk style while searching for a missing crew. It focuses on dialogue, mood and philosophical questions rather than combat.

Tacoma

Emotional impact

Tacoma is a quiet narrative adventure on an abandoned space station, where you piece together the crew's fate through augmented-reality recordings. Its appeal lies in the small human details and the relationships between the characters.

Norco

Dark, serious atmosphere

A dark, poetic point-and-click adventure set in a warped South Louisiana, blending grief, industrial decay and sci-fi strangeness into a dense, text-heavy tale. The search for your missing brother leads through surreal, atmospheric pixel-art settings.

Dear Esther

Emotional impact

A contemplative walk across a desolate Hebridean island while a narrator reads fragmented letters. With almost no traditional gameplay, it relies on dense atmosphere, poetic writing and striking scenery.

Master Reboot

Lots to discover

An atmospheric first-person exploration game set in a digital Soul Cloud, where you wander through the memories of the dead, solve puzzles and uncover an emotional, mildly eerie story about death and remembrance.

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