History VideoGame / StrandedDeep

** While not misplaced as far as habitat, the Hammerhead Shark's behavior toward the protagonist is far more aggressive than it would be in real life. There are only 17 recorded attacks on humans by hammerheads since we began keeping records in the 16th century, and none were fatal. The ones in this game will actively hunt you and ''only'' you if you're anywhere in the vicinity, and even try to capsize your raft.

* GadgeteerGenius: The protagonist develops into one. Once your crafting skill gets high enough you can jury-rig a speargun out of an oxygen bottle and some sharpened sticks, make a working gyrocopter out of spare parts looted from underwater shipwrecks, cook biofuel out of potatoes, and [[spoiler:repair a seaplane to make your escape]].

** There is an achievement for completing the game without using a compass. What it doesn't tell you is that you fail the achievement if you even ''have one in your inventory''. So if you're looting a crate with a compass in it and you grab the compass (easy to do if you're not careful), you're locked out of the achievement for that playthrough even if you never equip it.

* GuideDangIt: This game does not hold your hand past the tutorial. And even then doesn't mention that coconuts are to be used as a stopgap for meals and drink, as you can and will get diarrhea from them.

* HowlingToTheNight: Bats do it.

* {{Megalodon}}: One serves as a boss battle, even though the game is set in modern times.

* {{Mundanger}}: The game has no supernatural elements ([[spoiler:other than the GainaxEnding]]), and even the game's 3 boss creatures, although larger than any real-life examples, are not so large as to be physically or biologically impossible to exist.

The game released in [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/313120/ Early Access]] on Steam on January 23rd, 2015. The complete version of the game was released on April 21st, 2020. A UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version released on September 2, 2021. The fully feature complete, full release of the game, finally coming out of Early Access, was on August 10th, 2022.

* AwesomeButImpractical: A huge barge-like raft is very slow and extremely sluggish to steer. Plus, you'll get caught on rocks and shallows that wouldn't be a problem for a smaller boat.

** The player character's shirt, pants, and necktie are in tatters from the crash. In the early access they were already before the crash.

* EarlyGameHell: The first few days are probably the hardest. Without a solid raft sharks can easily tip you over, if you are poisoned pipi for antidotes are risky to find if you do not have any available and clean water can rapidly become a rare commodity. Get a solid raft going and victory is more of an eventuality then anything else.

** The implications are disturbing: namely, [[spoiler:you are forever stuck in a cycle of crashing, surviving, escaping and causing the crash. [[AndIMustScream If this isn't Hell, it's a good approximation.]]]]

* HyperactiveMetabolism: Not quite to the "eat to heal" extant of other games, but once the cause of your damage is dealt with if you keep yourself well-fed and hydrated for long enough you will recover health over time and you can eat/drink as easily as using any other tool. As long as you don't give yourself food poisoning anything edible should do the job, though food and fluids are treated as separate problems you need to address. If you do eat the wrong thing it doesn't take too long for it to sort itself out if you can survive the side-effects.

* ItemCrafting: The game's main gimmick is it's crafting menu. Uniquely, it also counts items in a radius around the player, not just what is possessed in inventory.

* {{Mundanger}}: The game has no supernatural elements ([[spoiler:other than the GainaxEnding]]), and even the game's 3 boss creatures, although larger than any real life examples, are not so large as to be physically or biologically impossible to exist.

* ShootTheShaggyDog: After all your efforts to find a way to escape back to civilization, [[spoiler: not only do you end up dying in a plane crash, but to add insult to injury this also somehow also involves a time loop resulting in your death also causing the accident that marooned you in the first place.]]

* ThreateningShark: There are sharks in the ocean. And they are bad news. There are several kinds of sharks, the harmless Black Tip Reef Shark and Whale Shark which serve as food, the Tiger Shark, Hammerhead, Goblin Shark and Great White which serve as enemies, and a [[UniqueEnemy single]] Megalodon which serves as a boss battle.

* AnAxeToGrind: An effective method for felling trees, though equally employable as a weapon. Crude axes can be crafted, while actual, manufactured axes can sometimes be found among wrecks.

!!Examples you'll encounter in Stranded Deep:

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The game released in [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/313120/ Early Access]] on Steam on January 23rd, 2015. The full game was released on April 21st, 2020. A UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch version released on September 2, 2021.

* GadgeteerGenius: The protagonist develops into one. Once your crafting skill gets high enough you can jury-rig a speargun out of an oxygen bottle and some sharpened sticks, make a working gyrocopter out of spare parts looted from underwater shipwrecks, cook biofuel out of potatoes, and [[spoiler:put together a seaplane to make your escape]].

* ScareChord: While the majority of the game lacks music, an ominous, low theme will begin playing whenever sharks are nearby...

The game released in [[http://store.steampowered.com/app/313120/ Early Access]] on Steam on January 23rd, 2015. The full game was released on April 21st, 2020.

* MisplacedWildlife: A downplayed example with the Goblin Shark. Real goblin sharks swim well below free diving depth and are no danger to humans.

* ThreateningShark: There are sharks in the ocean. And they are bad news. There are four kinds of sharks, the harmless Black Tip Reef Shark which serves as food, the Tiger Shark and Great White which serve as enemies, and a [[UniqueEnemy single]] Megalodon which serves as a boss battle.

* SeaMonster: Three of them, which serve as the game's bosses. A Megalodon, a Giant Squid, and a {{Kaiju}} sized Moray Eel.

* GainaxEnding: [[spoiler:You repair a Cessna Seaplane to escape the area. Three nights later, you collide with a private jet midair. Specifically, ''your'' jet from the beginning. The plane crash happened because of ''you.'']]