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Games like Ecco: The Tides of Time

1994PC

As the dolphin Ecco, you swim through vivid underwater worlds, solve puzzles and travel through time to stop a cosmic threat. It is atmospheric, unusual and notoriously tough.

Interconnected level design
Lots to discover
Challenging difficulty
Sci-fi setting

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Ecco the Dolphin

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1992PEGI 12PCXbox

As a young dolphin you swim through vast, dangerous oceans to rescue your vanished family. It blends exploration, puzzles and tricky underwater action with an unusual, melancholic atmosphere and a notoriously high difficulty.

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