Underwater Survival: Deep Dive

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Having the necessary skills to survive in the wilderness can be quite handy, but the conditions of Underwater Survival: Deep Dive are far more extreme. As a spaceship crewman, you're still active when the ship starts crashing, and you have no choice but to evacuate. You reach a smaller escape vessel and fly the ship safely out, only to land in the middle of a vast body of water. With no assurance that any rescue will come, you have no choice but to try and survive for as long as possible in an alien environment. Welcome to your new home!

About Underwater Survival: Deep Dive

Survival games tend to go for realistic depictions of physical conditions and requirements to make the experience more challenging. This game goes for that route while also giving you a strange environment. Since you're in the middle of the water, you don't have many of the freedoms and advantages you would have on land. You're in a place where humans are not naturally adapted to live, and that means you need to rely on ingenuity and planning. This is the future, so you've got some technology to help you out, but it all comes down to you as a human and the risks you're willing to take so that you can keep going.

How to Play

Underwater Survival: Deep Dive is a 3D survival game in which a human crash-lands on a watery alien planet and is forced to survive using a mouse and keyboard.

Controls

Cursor - Look/Aim
Left Mouse Button - Interact/Use UI
W/Up Arrow - Move Forward
S/Down Arrow - Move Backward
A/Left Arrow - Move Left
D/Right Arrow - Move Right
Spacebar - Dive/Surface
Shift - Speed Up
E - Interact

The goal is to survive as long as possible and hope that help will arrive. Your stats and objectives will appear as rings in the top left corner of the screen. These stats include Hunger, Thirst, Oxygen, and Health. If your health ring reaches zero, it's game over.

You'll start the game by crashing in your ship and will need to emerge so that you can salvage any nearby wreckage. By doing that, you can return to your ship where you'll have a crafting table for processing materials and creating equipment. You'll also have a chest that can be used to store excess items that you don't want to carry in your inventory. There's also a medical station that will generate First Aid Kits over time. You must find food and drinks to keep your stats up, or your health will suffer. Oxygen will only decrease when underwater and draw from your health if it reaches zero.

When you're out in the water, you'll encounter all sorts of creatures and materials. Some creatures will be harmless, and you can catch them by swimming up to them. Others will be hostile, and you must either avoid or fight them. Materials can be harvested similarly, but approaching and interacting with them. Most things you gather must be prepped back at your ship before they can be used effectively.

Tips and Tricks

Since this is a survival game, you should start by playing it safe. This means that you shouldn't venture too far from the ship and should spend time surveying the surrounding water to understand accessible resources and notable threats. At first, catching fish will be tricky, so make efforts to craft tools and equipment so you don't waste time and oxygen swimming after each one.

Game Details

Developer: Craft Game World
Platforms: Web Browser (PC and mobile) and Android
Languages: English, Italian, French, Spanish, German, Portuguese, Turkish, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, and Russian

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FAQs

How do you survive in Underwater Survival: Deep Dive?

The key to survival is ensuring your Hunger and Thrist levels remain stable. At the start of each day, get them as high as possible, and if you're planning to venture out, always ensure you have provisions and a safe route back to the ship.

Is Underwater Survival: Deep Dive accurate?

While it's difficult to predict what landing on an alien would be like, the game captures the essentials of needing to feed, drink, and breathe to stay alive. Access to space-age technology makes survival much easier.