Patient Gamers

I have another. One of my all time favorite games for the PS2 is Everblue 2. It's a first person diving adventure game, you swim around a tropical island, looking for treasure and advancing the plot. Travelling around the map, you're fixed to just moving left, right, forward, and back, but there are dive sites where you are given full motion. These are dark, claustrophobic spaces, sometimes with dangerous sea life. Usually, you're searching for a specific item at the request of a person on the island. You're given a time limit to each dive in the form of oxygen, and each item you collect effects both your overall health and the amount of oxygen you consume. Once you've got what you want, you then have to exit the site. There's literally no music during dives unless there's a threat. The only sounds are you and water...

Not super scary, unless you have thalassophobia. Just paranoia inducing, creepy, and tense at times.

If you're not opposed to emulation, because that's the only way to play it now,, I really recommend giving it a try! We only got the second game, but there's a European release of the first Everblue too. Emulation isn't perfect for it though. There's a ton of interlacing jitter no matter what settings you use, to the point that I can't play it because it screws with my eyes too much. The same company also made the Endless Ocean games for the Wii.

I've been wanting more games in the genre like it ever since. Only Subnautica came remotely close.