Wavetale
Glide across the waves of a drowned archipelago, swing from rooftops and help Sigrid save the islanders from the darkness below.
88% of 2,648 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$4.49
Games like Highwater
Looking for that same story-driven and colorful spark as Highwater? These games offer a similar pull for your backlog.
Wavetale
Wavetale is a story-driven adventure about Sigrid, a girl who can run across the sea thanks to a mysterious shadow beneath the waves. Surf a flooded archipelago, swing between rooftops with your net, meet its stubborn islanders and uncover what lies under the surface. Short, warm and easygoing, with a story about loss that lands.
Story-driven, Colorful, Atmospheric
88% of 2,648 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$4.49Submerged
Miku rows in with her wounded brother and climbs the green-covered towers for supplies, while a wordless story unfolds in drawings. No enemies, no timers, no way to fail: just you, a small boat and a beautiful ruin.
Story-driven, Colorful, Atmospheric
75% of 4,329 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Hydrophobia: Prophecy
Shoot, climb, hack, swim, and turn oil, electricity, and floods against them. Short, strange, and built around water that actually behaves like water.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Dark
60% of 1,977 Steam reviews are positive$4.99The Aquatic Adventure of the Last Human
Explore the ruins of the human race and discover the thriving wildlife that blossomed after our extinction in this underwater action/adventure. Encounter monstrous creatures and let curiosity guide you through an inevitable voyage of extinction.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
72% of 462 Steam reviews are positive$9.99After Us
Explore the corners of a surrealistic post-human world to give life on Earth a second chance in this touching story about sacrifice and hope.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
83% of 417 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$29.99Miasma Chronicles
A post-apocalyptic America torn apart by the Miasma, a force that twists the land into something unrecognizable. Elvis and his robot brother Diggs go looking for answers, sneaking through ruins and fighting careful turn-based battles. A story-rich tactical adventure with real twists, strange characters and a world worth lingering in.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Dark
79% of 2,059 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$34.99FAR: Changing Tides
A quiet, atmospheric voyage across a flooded world. You play Toe, a boy stranded after the waters rose, who finds a strange sailing ship and learns to captain it: raising the mast, catching the wind, stoking the furnace, diving to sunken ruins in search of a new home. No words, no rush, just you, the sea and a soundtrack that answers everything you do.
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Emotional
93% of 5,141 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99Jivana
Jivana is a story-driven adventure game. Embody Aelis, a water priestess who uses her powers to open the path for her community, forced to flee after the appearance of a huge cataclysm. Explore the enchanting landscapes of Jivana, use your ability to manipulate water and lead your people to safety.
Story-driven, Colorful, Atmospheric
90% of 722 Steam reviews are positiveFreeEastward
Eastward is a pixel-art adventure about a quiet miner and a mysterious girl who escape their underground town and travel a collapsing world by rail. Fight with a frying pan, cook strange meals, meet odd people, and let a warm, funny, surprisingly touching story carry you across the continent.
Story-driven, Colorful, Atmospheric
83% of 14,458 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 38$12.49Hyper Light Drifter
A silent drifter with a deadly illness walks a ruined, vividly beautiful world. Hyper Light Drifter is a tough top-down action RPG where the story is told in images, not words, and every fight asks you to learn its rhythm. Explore, find secrets, upgrade, and piece together what happened here.
Story-driven, Colorful, Atmospheric
93% of 15,669 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$19.99Fading Echo
Fading Echo is a fast-paced elemental action-adventure RPG where creativity fuels combat. Manipulate water, trigger chain reactions, and shift through surreal worlds as One, a young Legend on a mission to save a dying desertscape from the grip of the Paradox corruption.
Story-driven, Colorful, Atmospheric
90% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$19.99SALVATIONLAND
Dive into the dark world after the Flood. An exciting adventure awaits you as a young wanderer named Victor. Journey to the last city on Earth, whose fate rests solely in your hands. Defeat the elusive villain, destroy the sinister plans of the mysterious mayor, and become the liberating hero!
Story-driven, Atmospheric, Dark
100% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Cheaper than Highwater
The Wanderer
Enter a dark wasteland and fight mutants to survive.
69% of 49 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Sunday Gold
Sunday Gold is a point-and-click, turn-based adventure game set in grim, dystopian future.
77% of 692 Steam reviews are positive$4.39
Halfway
Halfway is a turn-based strategy RPG taking place a few hundred years into the future. Humanity has started colonising new worlds.
70% of 891 Steam reviews are positive$2.59
Pathway
Lead a squad of 1930s explorers through turn-based tomb raids where every run draws a new map and new risks.
76% of 1,910 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 10$4.79
Never Forgotten
A uniquely stylised survival-horror adventure game. Explore a dying world, averting enemies, managing your resources, and solving puzzles.
86% of 44 Steam reviews are positive$2.49
Disillusion
A mysterious muse calls upon you to investigate a Large tower in an oneiric land.
95% of 910 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$2.99
Ocean's Heart
Chase a missing father across an island archipelago, sword in hand, secrets everywhere.
81% of 1,417 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$2.99
Hydroactive
1 Party Member combat which is simple to pick up but tricky to master with a weapon switching system that encourages strategic thinking.
21% of 14 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Terra Incognita Chapter One: The Descendant
Terra Incognita is a classic role playing game. The world of Terra is slowly falling into chaos.
66% of 766 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Wuppo: Definitive Edition
Wander a strange, colorful land as a small round hero, solving puzzles, chatting with odd characters and taking on big boss fights along the way.
94% of 4,979 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$2.99
CESSPOOL
Follow the trip of Luna, a wanderer looking for her monkey, Tom, who's lost in the Cesspool, a world of strange and psychedelic ruins.
81% of 16 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Hidden gems like Highwater
Entropy
Entropy is a tactical turn-based RPG inspired by classic JRPGs.
94% of 336 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$11.99
A Song Of Sunlight
An RPG set in a distant, lonely future. Follow Arem, a young man lured from his small island community to explore the desolate megastructure beneath…
98% of 185 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Under The Island
Embark on an epic adventure in Under the Island! A 2D action-adventure steeped in ‘90s charm, step into the shoes of Nia, and battle fierce…
92% of 469 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
Fading Echo
Fading Echo is a fast-paced elemental action-adventure RPG where creativity fuels combat.
90% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Worldless
Trade blows with stick-figure beings in a newborn universe, absorbing rivals to gain their skills and exploring dreamlike realms full of secrets.
94% of 1,598 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 13$19.99
Artis Impact
Fight easy turn-based battles, take odd jobs and cook with your robot companion in a pixel world that stays warm and funny.
85% of 2,383 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$18.99
Echo Generation: Midnight Edition
Lead a gang of kids to uncover spooky mysteries, battle creatures, and explore the supernatural side of your hometown in Echo Generation, a…
93% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Hell is Us
Fight through a war-torn land haunted by supernatural creatures and piece together your own story from clues the game never spells out.
83% of 4,748 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 121$49.99
Solar Ash
You play Rei, a Voidrunner racing through a dreamlike void to save her home planet, one giant beast at a time.
90% of 1,370 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$39.99
Return
Return to your home planet after 200 years of space travel in this atmospheric, art-driven adventure.
86% of 195 Steam reviews are positive$5.59
Wavetale
Glide across the waves of a drowned archipelago, swing from rooftops and help Sigrid save the islanders from the darkness below.
88% of 2,648 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$4.49
Newest games like Highwater
Entropy
Entropy is a tactical turn-based RPG inspired by classic JRPGs.
94% of 336 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$11.99
Fading Echo
Fading Echo is a fast-paced elemental action-adventure RPG where creativity fuels combat.
90% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
A Tale of Silent Depths
A Tale of Silent Depths is a turn based tactical RPG set in a post-apocalyptic underwater setting.
77% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Aether & Iron
Run contraband through a floating 1930s New York as smuggler Gia Randazzo, where dice rolls and choices shape a hand-drawn noir story and its endings.
83% of 559 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 14$24.99
Under The Island
Embark on an epic adventure in Under the Island! A 2D action-adventure steeped in ‘90s charm, step into the shoes of Nia, and battle fierce…
92% of 469 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$14.99
A Song Of Sunlight
An RPG set in a distant, lonely future. Follow Arem, a young man lured from his small island community to explore the desolate megastructure beneath…
98% of 185 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Hell is Us
Fight through a war-torn land haunted by supernatural creatures and piece together your own story from clues the game never spells out.
83% of 4,748 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 121$49.99
Artis Impact
Fight easy turn-based battles, take odd jobs and cook with your robot companion in a pixel world that stays warm and funny.
85% of 2,383 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$18.99
Age of Water
Sail a flooded open world, salvage what the sea hides, and turn captured vessels into your own growing fleet.
72% of 2,902 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 30$29.99
Beyond Galaxyland
Beyond Galaxyland is a thrilling adventure-RPG combining cosmic exploration, strategic turn-based combat, and epic boss battle events across a vast…
85% of 317 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Never Forgotten
A uniquely stylised survival-horror adventure game. Explore a dying world, averting enemies, managing your resources, and solving puzzles.
86% of 44 Steam reviews are positive$2.49
Echo Generation: Midnight Edition
Lead a gang of kids to uncover spooky mysteries, battle creatures, and explore the supernatural side of your hometown in Echo Generation, a…
93% of 158 Steam reviews are positive$24.99