The Best Underwater Games for Linux

Update : CrabbleUp added at rank #5.
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Ocean Planet (2024)

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Ocean Planet takes the ideas & gameplay of "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy" and treats it as an art form, with atmospheric & immersive visuals and audio. You will be plunged into a diverse aquatic world, and it is up to you to rise up and see what awaits you at the surface.

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  • swimming
  • underwater
  • precision
  • platform
  • 2.5d
  • simulation
  • moddable
  • manipulation
  • time
  • psychological
  • dystopian
  • horror
  • exploration
  • sci-fi
  • linear

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Lakesider: Above and Below (2024)

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Working class weeb Knox's life is forever disturbed after a cute fish girl saves him from drowning himself by accident, introducing him to a strange sunken town hidden beneath the lake. An at times (un)comfortable slice of life turned survival horror you won't want to miss!

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  • underwater
  • humor
  • thriller
  • survival-horror
  • choices
  • visual-novel
  • romance
  • anime
  • psychological
  • dark
  • fantasy
  • drama
  • horror
  • atmospheric
  • cartoony

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Reef Escape (2023)

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Travel the underwater dangers of the reef in a breathable air bubble. Test your reflexes as you avoid obstacles and carefully explore each stage to grab items essential for clearing each level.

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  • scroller
  • 2d
  • underwater
  • side-scrolling
  • casual
  • platform
  • adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • controller-support
  • colourful
  • family-friendly

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Harmonic Depths (2023)

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Embark on a relaxing journey in an underwater realm. Glide through captivating environments, embracing the tranquility of exploration and survival found in these Harmonic Depths.

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  • immersive
  • underwater
  • submarine
  • nature
  • rhythm
  • attack
  • score
  • survival
  • exploration
  • simulation
  • relaxing
  • 3d
  • arcade
  • open-world

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CrabbleUp (2024)

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Dive into an oceanic odyssey, where serene exploration meets thrilling challenges. Embark on a journey through endless underwater mazes, armed only with your cunning and defending yourself from perilous foes with the power of your bubbles.

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  • rogue-like
  • hand-drawn
  • linear
  • underwater
  • isometric
  • family-friendly
  • 2.5d
  • character
  • 1990s
  • procedural
  • customization
  • casual
  • retro
  • controller-support
  • arcade

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We Need To Go Deeper (2017)

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DIVE. DISCOVER. DIE. Crew a submarine with friends in We Need To Go Deeper - a 2-4-player cooperative submarine roguelike set in a Verne-inspired undersea universe.


  • rogue-like
  • lovecraftian
  • submarine
  • steampunk
  • cooperative
  • 2d
  • underwater
  • pve
  • hand-drawn
  • loot
  • team
  • cartoony
  • exploration
  • platform
  • simulation

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PROXIMATE (2024)

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Explore an abandoned deep sea laboratory in a short horror game where your only form of navigation is an unreliable AI visor.

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  • lgbtq
  • short
  • horror
  • satire
  • walking-simulator
  • underwater
  • text
  • humor
  • atmospheric
  • dread-driven
  • fiction
  • narrative
  • psychological
  • political
  • surreal

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Solitude Underwater (2022)

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Solitude Underwater is a short horror adventure game. Two treasure-hunting brothers are searching for sunken riches off the coast of South Africa, only to find themselves immersed in catastrophe after one of them gets trapped in a cage, deep inside shark-infested waters.

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  • cinematic
  • underwater
  • horror
  • conversation
  • 3d
  • horror-adventure
  • dark
  • tutorial
  • first-person
  • adventure
  • multiple-endings
  • lore
  • atmospheric

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South Scrimshaw, Part One (2023)

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South Scrimshaw is the story of a newborn whale in a vast alien ocean. It is a richly illustrated experimental visual novel, written in the style of a nature documentary.

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  • cinematic
  • lore
  • linear
  • visual-novel
  • hand-drawn
  • sci-fi
  • science
  • underwater
  • historical
  • alternate
  • nature
  • atmospheric
  • emotional
  • aliens
  • 2d

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Swirl Wtch (2023)

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Swirl W@tch is a tense stealth-action roguelite that takes place on an over-exploited gas giant. Infiltrate industrial installations, evade or eliminate guard ships, commit corporate sabotage and grow the movement to unlock new gear. Can your actions free this otherworldly world?

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  • submarine
  • rogue-like
  • stealth
  • underwater
  • immersive
  • space
  • tactical
  • simulation
  • sci-fi
  • atmospheric
  • top-down
  • procedural
  • retro
  • 2d

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