Think of movies like The Poseidon Adventure (1972), The Towering Inferno (1974), Daylight (1997) or maybe even Deep Blue Sea (1999) where you have a small group of people stuck in some location trying to survive some kind of disaster.

I played a game called Hydrophobia Prophecy from 2011. This game had a huge potential to be a video game equivalent of The Poseidon Adventure, one of the best disaster movies IMO. The game is set on a floating city that gets attacked by terrorists that want to sink it.

This game is a technological marvel, even though it is an indie game, they built their own game engine with probably the most impressive water physics even today. You can break walls and glass and water would fill the room carrying you and everything else with it (see attachment). Your game character is a systems engineer that can hack computer systems and free climbing is her hobby, so you get to use all the moves you would find in a Prince Of Persia game, plus she can swim and dive like Lara Croft. You don't need much imagination to see just these few elements alone have a huge potential for an interesting game.

Unfortunately, the devs lacked experience, direction and vision (or maybe just money to pay someone with all this), and as much as impressive it is from a technical perspective, it all ends up being a gimmick, and instead of focusing on fixing things, climbing and running away from water, finding other survivors, etc, most of the time it is just your usual third person cover based shooter where you shoot the terrorists. Unfortunately the company closed down and I find it so unfortunate nobody used this tech for something more interesting.

In a way, Alien Isolation. If you haven't played it, It takes place on a space station about to be abandoned, and then got the xenomorph on top. As you progress through the game the situation keeps getting worse, and by the end you feel the very enviroment is out for you.

You'll likely spend a lot of time crouching or under a table, gameplay wise, and is often really tense.

Was this supposed to be a question, as your thread title implies?
Or did you just want to share your experience with the game "Hydrophobia Prophecy /Hydrophobia" with us? ;)

Funny, that was the first game that came to my mind when I read the thread title, even though it's not that well known and I only played for half an hour or so. :D

Maybe Subnautica would fit, to some extent? You're a lone survivor of a spaceship crash on a seemingly hostile alien planet covered with ocean and need to survive the environment, search for other survivors and try a to find a way of escape. The focus is more on exploration, problem solving, fixing, building etc. and not on combat.

Not sure, but S.T.A.L.K.E.R. might have some disaster movie elements, too, although it's also a shooter with lots of enemies.

Both. I expect if people see a longer more personal post they would be willing to reply in the same way, so we can have a more rich discussion. Doesn't always work though.

BTW, one thing I forgot to put more focus on in the first post is "GROUP OF PEOPLE". I can't name any survival game where you manage a group of survivors, except for The Thing from 2002, but that one is more a horror/shooter game. I think adding elements from that game, like the trust/fear mechanics and multiple survivors having different abilities to solve different obstacles would fit in this "disaster" game concept.

I was going to say Dead Space, but I think it doesnt quite fit the mold.

Edit: actually there was a game for the PS2 I never did get to play (maybe it didnt even get released?) that focused on the aftermath of an earthquake in a city. Cant remember the damned name of it though.

Isn't Disaster Report just exactly this?

My thoughts exactly. And 4 is coming westside next year even. (PS4+Switch+steam for the time being).

It does look interesting. Have you played the previous installments, perchance?

apparently thats the game I was thinking of in my post above (by screenshots im seeing).

You might want to try Raw Danger! for the PS2, another one in the disaster report series. Very janky but it fits what you are looking for pretty well, different people coping after a disaster etc.

It doesn't feel like a disaster movie, but "group of people with trust issues in what is pretty much John Carpenter's The Thing" - the game "Distrust" might fit that bill. Your mileage may vary (I thought it was good, but not great, a bit micromanagement-focused) but it should be obtainable for pretty cheap.

I played "Disaster: Day of Crisis" on the Wii.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3ZTu19M24I

Maybe Dying Light and/or Dead Island. Cryostasis. Would games like Left 4 Dead, World War Z, Earthfall count?

This war of mine
https://www.gog.com/game/this_war_of_mine

Dead Age
https://store.steampowered.com/app/363930/Dead_Age/

Does Project Zomboid count?

You don't find survivors unless you're playing MP, but SP also seems to fit the bill. I think a zombie outbreak counts as a disaster, and the game deals with surviving and recovering from one.

No, but I feel I've heard enough Goons LP it to qualify them as either SBiG, or Good.

I may have also been thinking of this.