Everblue 2 is an adventure game

Adventure game

An adventure game is a video game in which the player assumes the role of protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and puzzle-solving instead of physical challenge. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based media such as literature and film,...

 based around scuba diving

Scuba diving

Scuba diving is a form of underwater diving in which a diver uses a scuba set to breathe underwater....

. It is the sequel to the game Everblue

Everblue

Everblue is an adventure game based around scuba diving. It is the predecessor to Everblue 2, and is the first of the Everblue series...

. Endless Ocean is not a sequel to these games, but it features similar gameplay. Both Everblue 2 and Endless Ocean were developed by Arika

Arika

is a Japanese video game developer. It was formed in 1995 by former Capcom employees. The name of the company itself is the reverse of the name of the company's founder, Akira Nishitani, who created Street Fighter II. Arika's first arcade game was Street Fighter EX...

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Plot

The player is Leo, a diver, who sails through a fictional treacherous Caribbean sea with his friends. Their ship sinks in a huge storm and they swim to a nearby island. There, they meet a group of scuba divers called The Amigos.

The Amigos salvage valuable items from the sea and sell them for profit. They also help people by finding their missing belongings from sunken shipwreck

Shipwreck

A shipwreck is what remains of a ship that has wrecked, either sunk or beached. Whatever the cause, a sunken ship or a wrecked ship is a physical example of the event: this explains why the two concepts are often overlapping in English....

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Gameplay

The player earns money by finding precious materials with their metal, glass, wood, clay, and stone sonars, and looting artifacts from shipwrecks. This money can be used to buy equipment allowing a player access to deeper and more challenging dives.

Over time a player is able to dive through a sunken freighter, a downed airplane, a pirate ship, a sunken luxury liner, a submarine and an undersea temple.