It's the same as a cliff, a fence, or a wall, albeit often with the addition of your character instantly dying if they try to venture into its waters. In many examples of games that have a sea, it's easily recognizable shorthand: You can't go past this bit.
But in video games, the ocean is something almost entirely apart from what it's been portrayed as for millennia. It's a plot device: the great and wild unknown, with deep and dark secrets, that's always thwarting plans, sinking ships and dragging people down to a watery grave.
Enclosure or Escape: What the Ocean Can Mean in Video Games “She has inspired poetry, literature, art and song, but often the sea is portrayed as something untrustworthy-an untamed, raw and powerful force of nature containing leviathans, krakens and other terrifying monsters of the midnight murk. You also couldn’t swim because iron boots made more sense or something.” Not only did it slow every action to a crawl, but it made every area dark and indistinguishable from another - which led to plenty of frustration when you were trying to navigate through the temple. Mocked as one of the worst and most difficult levels of all time, the Water Temple did a horrible job of mimicking what it felt like to be underwater. This is a perfect example of developers trying and totally failing to do something interesting with water. Take a look at the Water Temple from Zelda: Ocarina of Time. 3) Things that look awesome on land or in the air, don’t look awesome underwater. 2) Rejiggering character movement in underwater space without simply slowing everything down is difficult. The reason for this appears to be threefold: 1) Many games have failed totally at underwater gameplay, which makes developers nervous. There Is No Great Underwater Video Game, but There Will Be “Underwater levels and areas are by no means unheard of - BioShock and SOMA engage in some nicely realized amphibious-ness - but they remain few and brief and far between. They're interested in the potential for healthcare, or a game that anyone can play, regardless of ability or mobility limitations.” The game is played completely by breathing and looking around you aren't required to hit any buttons, and all the feedback so far is aesthetic. "Ideally, it will be both, game designer Niki Smit continued. That's one of the questions we want to answer this week," Harris said. I found myself inside a sort of underwater environment, with simple polygons and deep colors, surrounded by schools of swimming fish and other interesting things to look at. A bit of conductive wool on the controller senses your body moving as you breathe. When you breathe in, the circle grows bigger. Subnautica game too dark how to#
Deep is a virtual reality 'game' that wants to teach you how to breathe “Deep is played inside virtual reality, and in the demo I played there's a white circle in the middle of your view. As Nava says, this stylized look is both an aesthetic and functional choice: “Abzû takes you on a tour of undersea biomes, ranging from swaying kelp forests and bright coral reefs to deep pelagic chasms and dark abyssal plains,” he explains.” 
The challenge was to allow for this, while at the same time ensuring that the space was readable.
In many areas of the game’s underwater world, fish, kelp leaves, ambient particles, corals, and seagrasses overwhelm the screen. “This approach worked very well in that it help us convey the essence of the creature, while simplifying less important details and reduced the noise.” Balancing visual noise with clarity was a major mission for Giant Squid. “We very intentionally chose what we felt were the most iconic elements of each species and focused our design on those, the outcome being a stylized representation of the actual thing,” Nava explains. But when Giant Squid studied these creatures they quickly realized that each fish is infinitely complex in the way it moves, acts and looks.
How Scuba Diving Inspired a Realistic Underwater Video Game “The hundreds of sea species in Abzû are all based on real creatures from oceans around the world.
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