The most popular aquatic / underwater games

Submarines, boats, ships, you name it. Games set underwater, in the deeps of the ocean, or in a less specific aquatic environment are all about doing something on water or surrounded by it. Naval tactical games like the Great Naval Battle series, submarine simulations like Silent Service are common occurrences for this kind of setting, while action games like Aquanox or fishing sports games like Bass Tour are less known but still part of this game group.

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X-COM: Terror from the Deep

DOS1995protected MicroProse Software

X-COM: Terror from the Deep (also known as X-COM 2) is a DOS science fiction tactical strategy game and the sequel to one of the most popular DOS games in history, X-COM: UFO Defense. Terror from the Deep was designed by Step...

Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons

DOS1995 KOEI

Uncharted Waters 2: New Horizons is an abandoned simulation game, sequel of Uncharted Waters, developed and released by KOEI in 1995. The Uncharted Waters series is set in the Age of Discovery and gives the player the freedom to s...

Code-Name: Iceman

DOS1989 Sierra On-Line

Part Cold War thriller, part adventure game, part submarine simulator, Code-Name: Iceman is a Sierra title that demands patience, precision, and a deep respect for diplomacy and torpedoes. You play as a super-agent with a license ...

Uncharted Waters

DOS1990 KOEI

Super Solvers: Operation Neptune

DOS1991 The Learning Company

Ocean Trader

DOS1995 Software 2000

Wolfpack

DOS1990 NovaLogic

Aces of the deep

DOS1994 Dynamix

Ever wanted to experience the grim, claustrophobic life of a WWII submarine captain without leaving your desk? Aces of the Deep (1994, DOS) delivers that dream in spades — torpedoes, sonar, periscopes, and lots of tense wait...

High Seas Trader

DOS1995 Impressions Games

Pirates! Gold

DOSWindows 3.xMac OS1993protectedremakedemo MicroProse Software

Pirates! Gold is an open world game designed by Paul Murphy, developed and released by MicroProse Software in 1993 for DOS, Windows 3.x, Mac and also Sega Genesis and Amiga CD32. Pirates! Gold is a remake of the game Pirates,...

688 Attack Sub

DOS1989 Electronic Arts

Dive, dive! This 1989 DOS simulator puts you in control of a nuclear submarine, though most of the action involves pushing buttons and waiting very patiently. Think of it as the “Microsoft Excel of naval warfare,” only...

Sid Meier's Pirates!

DOS1987protected MicroProse Software

California Games 2

DOS1990 Epyx

The sequel nobody asked for, but we’re still kinda glad happened. California Games 2 adds even weirder sports: jet-skiing, hang gliding, and bodyboarding, which is like surfing but with less dignity. The graphics are improve...

Super Solvers: Treasure Cove

DOS1992 The Learning Company

In The Hunt

Windows XP/98/951993 Irem Software Engineering

Harpoon

DOS1989protected Three-Sixty Pacific

Carrier command

DOS1989 Realtime Games

Part RTS, part simulation, Carrier Command was ahead of its time in the same way that an aircraft carrier is ahead of a canoe. You control a futuristic warship, launch aircraft and amphibious units, and fight over tiny islands tha...

Gone Fishing

DOS1989 Interstel Corporation

China Sea Trader

DOS1989

Forget piracy—China Sea Trader makes hauling porcelain and spices across 19th-century Asia feel like a cutthroat business. It’s part economic sim, part geography lesson, and all DOS brown-and-gray. You buy low, sell hi...

Great Naval Battles: North Atlantic 1939 - 1943

DOS1992protected SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.

1869

DOS1992 Max Design

If you’ve ever dreamed of becoming a 19th-century merchant sailing the high seas with a suspiciously optimistic outlook on international trade, 1869 is your jam. It throws you into the age of clipper ships, where profit marg...

Harpoon II

DOS1994protected Three-Sixty Pacific

Archimedean Dynasty

DOS1996protected Massive Development

In Archimedean Dynasty, humanity did the logical thing after wrecking the surface world: moved underwater and started shooting each other in submarines. It's part tactical sim, part gritty sci-fi novella, and entirely German in it...

Great Naval Battles vol. 3: Fury in the Pacific 1941-1944

DOS1995protected Divide by zero

EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus

DOS1991 Sierra On-Line

Bass Duel

DOS1993

Fish or be fished could be the motto of Bass Duel (1993), a competitive angling game that pits you against a friend or an AI in a fight to the last splash. Strategy is key: where to cast, how to reel, and when to brag about your c...

Ka-50 Hokum

DOS1995 Simis Limited

Great Naval Battles vol. 5: Demise of the Dreadnoughts 1914-18

DOS1996protected Divide by zero

Great Naval Battles vol. 5: Demise of the Dreadnoughts 1914-18 is an abandoned naval simulation game, developed for DOS only by Divide by zero and released by SSI Strategic Simulations Inc. in 1996. As the title implies, Great Nav...

Galleons of Glory

DOS1990 Broderbund

Galleons of Glory is an abandoned educational historical simulation game developed and published by Broderbund in 1990. As Magellan your mission is to circumnavigate the world while managing your crew and ship.