What is the best Sea based game out there in your opinion?

Submitted ⁨⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Novamdomum@fedia.io⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

I'm talking about things like:

most realistic physics
most aesthetically pleasing sea
most fun to play
most immersive (pun intended (I'll sea myself out))
most activities available at sea
most variety of sea going vessels

Games with impressive seas that I've played so far:

Assassin's Creed Odyssey (Triremes and heaving seas)
Just Cause 3 (Sparkling blue mediterranean seas)
Sea of Thieves (Monsters and pirates)
Sailwind (Gentle seas and actual sailing mechanics)
Silent Depth 2 Pacific (Sneaky WW2 subs)
Cold Waters (Sneaky modern subs)
Uboat (Beautiful WW2 seas, rare shooting opportunities)
Subnautica (Thalassophobia and crafting)

I've also noticed that Ships at Sea has just gone on sale. If you've played it recently was it any good?

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Yokozuna@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Dredge is pretty fun and different!

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lowleveldata@programming.dev ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Subnautica

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- bagelberger@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I’ve played Subnautica so much that it’s no longer a challenge, even on hardcore. I installed this mod (Deathrun Remade) to increase the difficulty and had the most fun I’ve had in a while
  
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libra00@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Gotta go with the old school here, Sid Meier’s Pirates! No water physics, graphics from 2004, etc, but so much fun that I’ve been playing it since the original came out in 1987. Hell, i was playing the 2004 remake just last week even.

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- Num10ck@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  you might like Jaws on the NES play it online here vimm.net/vault/?p=play&mediaId=426
  
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  - libra00@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Holy shit that is cancer, the audio is so bad I can’t even turn the volume on like 1%. I’m gonna go ahead and say I probably missed the boat on that one, but I appreciate the suggestion.
    
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- tal@lemmy.today ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  If you’re super-into it, have you tried Port Royale 2, which also came out in 2004 and is kind of the same sort of game on the age-of-sail combat side?
  
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  - libra00@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yeah I’ve played it, I preferred Pirates! because it’s more about the adventure than just endless combat. Honestly I rarely even shoot the cannons on my ship except to very occasionally chain-shot someone’s sail or grape-shot their crew before I go board the ship and win it via fencing, so I’m not even all that into the combat.
    
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tatann@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Odyssey is more recent but Black Fag definitely has better storms

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- umami_wasbi@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Why the “Flag” get removed?
  
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  - tatann@lemm.ee ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Woops, typo
    
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BigBenis@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Dave The Diver!

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- The_Ferry@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  Dave the Diver has a very good early game, but eventually the grind just became needlessly tedious in my opinion. I liked going down and getting the fish etc. but the grind in mid to late game is just very time-skip heavy
  
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UnrefinedChihuahua@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I’m here for Sea of Thieves, so much fun.

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- Dragomus@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Sea Of Thieves has amazing ocean effects. The fog sometimes also is very atmospheric with how it seems to occlude sounds etc.
  
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- simple@lemm.ee ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Same, it’s a lot of fun with friends. They also added peaceful servers where you can’t PvP a while back so you can fish in peace.
  
  Fair warning though: This game needs to be played with friends, it can be tedious with randoms that barely communicate and disconnect whenever they feel like it.
  
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mlg@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Probably will get some groans but World of Warships is actually modeled very nicely. And yeah its a free to play monetized game, but it is miles ahead of war thunder in terms of actually having fun and playing the game at high FPS and great quality even with a potato computer.

The engine has some cool tricks that really makes it shine with water spraying and sloshing onto your vessel.

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- GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  War thunder for planes, world of warships for ships, tanarus for tanks (obviously in the push mode, the only battle mode worth fighting).
  
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XM34@feddit.org ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Either Subnautica or AC Black Flag. Odyssey’s water gameplay sucks balls compared to Black Flag.

Alternatively, Raft is quite nice

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- tal@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I really wanted to like Raft, but the game just felt kind of shallow and on-rails in actual gameplay compared to Subnautica.
  
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  - XM34@feddit.org ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Raft only truly shines when you play it with friends. Otherwise it gets old real fast. But with a crew of 3-4 chaotic people on board it’s a ton of fun!
    
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RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker has some of the most fun sailing physics of any ocean game I’ve ever played.

And the physics were realistic enough that you could fill out the map before you got the ability to control the winds just by tacking the boat.

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Thcdenton@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Cold Waters

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- GoodLuckToFriends@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Best simulator ever. And then you find the mods.
  
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tal@lemmy.today ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That’s a lot of different categories.

I like naval warfare games, but I tend towards the sim side, not the “experience being someone there” sort.

The naval warfare game that I have played the most of recently is Rule the Waves 3. That’s definitely not an eye candy game, but it models the development of warships from 1880 into the Cold War, the construction of fleets, and the tactics when they meet, has a lot of flexibility to simulate different stuff.

The game that I’m most looking forward to being completed is Sea Power: Naval Combat in the Missile Age, which is presently still in Early Access and last time I played it still had a lot of unfinished work. Sort of a spiritual successor to Fleet Command/Jane’s Fleet Command. Modern air and naval warfare.

It doesn’t work on Linux, so I can’t play it, but Command: Modern Operations is probably the most sim-oriented program you can get.

Two other naval warfare games that I enjoy playing:

Cold Waters, which is a Cold War sub warfare game. It abstracts out a lot of the manual stuff that some other sub sims do. Covers the “hide, gather data, strike” bit.

Carrier Command 2. This is not a real-world oriented sim. You command an amphibious assault ship which can capture islands to gain resources, capture technology, and buy munitions, air and amphibious vehicles, and fight against another similar amphibious assault ship approaching you. I really like the untextured polygon aesthetic – they make stuff look pretty even with just that. If you’ve played Hostile Waters, sort of similar idea — both are based on Carrier Command. Not mission-oriented the way Hostile Waters is. It’s really intended to be played multiplayer, which I’ve no interest in, but you can play single-player if you can handle the load of doing all the tasks.

You mention Subnautica. I enjoyed that, though unlike the other games here, that’s not really a naval warfare game, but it’s certainly got a sea theme. I think I own the sequel, Subnautica: Below Zero, but haven’t played it, but given that you don’t mention it, I thought I would, as I’d assume that if you like the first game, you’d also enjoy the second.

Sunless Sea and its sequel Zubmariner is…hard to describe, more about providing a dark British Empire fantasy naval-themed game. Not naval warfare, but exploring a subterranean world…but it’s got sea theming.

It’s not, strictly-speaking, a sea-based game, but Nebulous: Fleet Command is a sci-fi space-based fleet warfare game. A lot of the elements that you might want in a fleet naval warfare game are there.

I think that those are the sea- or sea-associated games that I’d probably most recommend, myself.

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- RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Dredge was one of the most compelling games I have ever played and I have been gaming since 1980.
  
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- Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Dredge is really cool if you are looking for something a bit more casual, but with decent narrative and very strong world-building.
  
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Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Ecco the Dolphin. (Genesis)

Sid Meier’s Pirates! (PC)

Subnautica (PC)

Uncharted Waters: New Horizons (SNES)

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- OminousOrange@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  I just replayed Subnautica in VR. Such a great game.
  
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philpo@feddit.org ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Definitely not the best, but still worth a mention is “Stormworks: Build and rescue”. Basically a Lego like “build a ship/plane and do missions on the oceans” game - missions nowadays are also including far more than rescue.

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Ugurcan@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Pretty stoked with Bannerlord’s next expansion, War Sails.

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Zahille7@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I haven’t played it, but there’s a game called Salt 2 that I’ve been interested in for a while.

The steam page says it’s basically an infinite ocean with different islands and such. It sounds like it might be procedurally generated, but you can customize your ship and it’s basically your mobile base and all.

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knexcar@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
From the Depths — it’s mind-meltingly complex, graphics are mid, and takes a few liberties with physics, but it lets you build your own warships Minecraft-style, including custom cannons, missiles, and air defense.

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swordgeek@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I read this as “Sea Bass game” at first.

Honestly, I don’t know.

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nyctre@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Abzu? Dave the diver, maybe? Dredge?

Or, this might be a might more out of left field or maybe completely stupid and not at all what you had in mind, but what about coral island? You don’t get to experience the water surface except when fishing or doing other stuff on the shore. But you get to do stuff on the bottom and there’s mermaids and stuff.

Stardew valley with a tropical island vibe. So definitely fun and immersive. Definitely more adjacent than something like sea of thieves or black flag or subnautica, but I feel like it fits better than just cause 3, imo

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Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
From the creators of Cold Waters you have Sea Power, I like it a lot but it is more about strategy fighting with missiles and stuff from the Cold War then really enjoying sea.

Ultimate admiral dreadnoughts and War on the sea are also cool options for naval warfare.

Ships at Sea for normal modern sea stuff (fishing, cargo etc).

Naval action for slow wooden ships in the Bahamas.

But the best pirate game still is Assassin’s Creed Black Flag. You can mod it a little and find good shaders to have it look a bit better on today’s hardware.

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- I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Good luck playing Black Flag unless you pirate it. Ubisoft fucking broke it with their shitty app. If will still work if you’ve previously installed and launched it, but if you’re a first time player, the launcher will prompt you to log in to Ubisoft 's shitty app, and then just never run.
  
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  - Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Really? Ah shit, I have it legit on steam so it should use ubi launcher but I haven’t started it in a while.
    
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- tal@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Naval action for slow wooden ships in the Bahamas.
  
  I haven’t seen this prior to now. The idea of a nice age-of-sale combat game sounds interesting, but…man, looking at the Steam description there has some surprises:
  
  That is an appallingly low Steam rating.
  
  It looks like the split is between players who think that the game is too-slow-paced and those who are fine with that, so I could see someone who wants a slow game being into it.
  
  Jesus Christ, the DLC prices. They’re selling each additional ship for ~$50? Like, the game with all ships is ~$700? mean, I know that DCS World and Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad use that model, but I can’t imagine that the ships function as differently as the combat aircraft.
  
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  - AAA@feddit.org ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    The developer is a cash hungry idiot, with no intention to ever listen to the community.
    
    The community is great. The battle intense. The skill ceiling is sky high. Sailing mechanisms second to none.
    
    There’s a lot more ships than the DLC ships. But yes, it’s almost inevitable you will end up buying a couple of them, because the DLCs let you spawn a ship for free every day.
    
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  - Skunk@jlai.lu ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Yep, I don’t know what happened with the reviews lately. I know they did something with the servers, maybe with the PVP server so that might have made all those players angry.
    
    I don’t have any DLC ships, except maybe for some gifted ones and I only play solo pirate/merchant on the PVE server and don’t engage too much with the community.
    
    It is a very slow game, combats takes ages as well as trade runs. But that is what I like in those games, I just relax sailing and trying to demast some merchants. Maybe if I was participating with the community (port raiding for your nation etc) I would be angry too.
    
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  - Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    
    Jesus Christ, the DLC prices. They’re selling each additional ship for ~$50? Like, the game with all ships is ~$700? I mean, I know that DCS World and Il-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad use that model, but I can’t imagine that the ships function as differently from ship-to-ship as the combat aircraft in those games, bring as much additional gameplay.
    
    It’s the Star Citizen model. Players should be happy they are not paying $400 for a concept art piece of a ship.
    
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obrenden@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
I had a lot of fun with Blackwake when it first came out, haven’t played recently though.

Free on steam store.steampowered.com/app/420290/Blackwake/

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- BevsDad@lemmy.ca ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  That game was the best!
  
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