Games like Rust Bucket

Miss the scary and tense pull of Rust Bucket? Browse these games for your next favorite.

Tin Can
Your ship exploded. Now you drift in an escape pod where every fuse, filter and wire matters, armed with a manual and your own wits. Fix systems, watch your breathing go ragged as oxygen runs low, and see how long you last before the cosmos wins.
Scary, Tense, Dark
84% of 1,079 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Heavy Metal Death Can
Heavy Metal Death Can is a Brutal Survival Horror game set on a Swedish Cold War–era submarine. Trapped beneath the ocean, you must fight against the terrifying Sludge which has turned your crew into Zombies. Look for survivors and uncover the truth behind the madness.
Scary, Tense, Dark
94% of 86 Steam reviews are positive$17.50
Iron Lung
Pilot a rusty one-man submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon. A short, dread-soaked horror trip that ends in under an hour and stays with you much longer.
Scary, Tense, Dark
92% of 10,312 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$7.99
Don't Sleep With The Fishes
Your ship is going down and the lifeboat holds one seat besides yours. Grab what you can, fish, talk, survive the nights, and hope something out there lets you leave. A point-and-click survival horror where every day is a choice and most endings are not the good kind.
Scary, Tense, Dark
95% of 887 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$1.99
Submersed
Rediscover the meaning of terror with Submersed. Are you afraid of depths? You will be.
Scary, Tense, Dark
45% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Sunken Seeker
Sunken Seeker is a short, first-person underwater horror experience. Forced to pilot a decaying submersible, you have 7 days to pay off a massive debt. Navigate pitch-black waters, scan for salvage beyond your headlights, and survive the shift before the Director cuts your life support.
Scary, Tense, Dark
50% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain
Black rain is falling and the Flood is coming. Lead the last survivors, send divers into a cursed abyss, and manage oxygen, sanity and hope while an angry sea god watches. A dark underwater mix of survival, camp management and dread, where every descent is a gamble and sacrifice is part of the plan.
Scary, Tense, Dark
91% of 1,374 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$17.99
Rusted Awakening
Rusted Awakening is a brutal, one-hour horror FPS with classic combat and a deeply atmospheric world. Fight your way out of a decaying underground facility where humanity is kept asleep by those who never sleep. Battle enemies, survive traps, and explore surreal environments that shift around you.
Scary, Tense, Dark
82% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$5.99
Submarine Homesick Blues
A real-time submarine management and survival game with tactical pause, where you manage crew, systems, and resources under constant pressure.
Tense, Dark, Atmospheric
78% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Iron Blight
A cold, rainy Eastern Bloc town, a collapsed state, and one goal: survive the night and find your wife, Valeria. Every bullet counts, guns jam, and your backpack only holds so much. A retro survival horror with no HUD, where the streets are empty and the sounds in them are not.
Scary, Tense, Dark
93% of 1,093 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$12.49
Rusted
Rusted is a Linear horror game. You wake up from a coma, but something isn't right. Everything is worn down and there's rust everywhere. How long have you been out for? Figure out what happened and find your way out. But be careful, you're not alone.
Scary, Tense, Dark
78% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Metal Casket
Single player simple horror game, inspired by "Iron Lung"
Scary, Tense, Dark
100% of 6 Steam reviews are positive$2.99

Cheaper than Rust Bucket

Don't Sleep With The Fishes

A hand-drawn survival horror where you fish for answers by day and ration your hope by night, with endings that rarely turn out kind.

$1.99

Rusted

Rusted is a Linear horror game. You wake up from a coma, but something isn't right. Everything is worn down and there's rust everywhere.

$1.99

Metal Casket

Single player simple horror game, inspired by "Iron Lung"

$2.99

The Oily Depths

Operate an oil-drilling submarine while taking instructions from a mysterious voice. Fail your quota, and they’ll cut your oxygen.

$2.99

My Rusty Submarine - New Waters

Grab a friend for a deep sea dive. Repair your submarine and try to get as far as possible with this old and rusty, but charming submarine!

$1.99

Little Lighthouse of Horror

A pixel art psychological horror game inspired by the Flannan Isles mystery.

$2.99

The Survivor

Manage your failing ship, evade lurking horrors, and navigate the galaxies to find the Lunar Star Base.

$2.99

Buried

You wake up buried alive. You are running out of oxygen and you can't remember how you got here.

$1.99

Eclipse Below

A co-op submarine piloting horror game with asymmetrical elements where your survival is dependent on the effectiveness of communication between…

$1.99

Deeper

Deeper is a short horror management game focusing on stress and being stuck in a submarine

$2.99

Ashes

Chaos and devastation devoured the last sparkles of life. Surviving is the main task.

$0.99

There's Nothing Down There

There's Nothing Down There is a short undersea horror exploration game.

Hidden gems like Rust Bucket

Don't Sleep With The Fishes

A hand-drawn survival horror where you fish for answers by day and ration your hope by night, with endings that rarely turn out kind.

$1.99

Iron Blight

Scavenge a dead town in first person, count every bullet and every can of food, and listen for what moves in the rain.

$12.49

DIVE or DIE - Children of Rain

Send divers down into a cursed abyss and keep the last survivors breathing, sane and hopeful as the Flood rises.

$17.99

Below, Rusted Gods

You are the lifeline supporting an expedition into the unknown.

$7.99

The Oily Depths

Operate an oil-drilling submarine while taking instructions from a mysterious voice. Fail your quota, and they’ll cut your oxygen.

$2.99

Darkwater

Pilot a submarine through a frozen alien sea with your crew, fighting what swims out of the dark and scavenging for the fuel to keep going.

$9.99

Hollowbody

A tech-noir survival horror short story. Mica, a black market shipper, crashes into a sealed-off British city to find her missing partner.

$16.99

EMPTY SHELL

You sign up for a recovery operation in an abandoned facility on a Japanese island, then die and get replaced by the next volunteer.

$11.99

Ocean Keeper: Dome Survival

Explore dungeons, fight hordes of monsters and survive on a huge map. This is Ocean Keeper – an action roguelike with tower defense elements.

$9.99

The Last Caretaker

Salvage, build and sail a flooded Earth while raising the last of humankind in your machine-run complex.

$34.99

Subterrain: Mines of Titan

Awaken from an abandoned stasis pod and discover a doomed mining camp on Titan in an uncompromising turn-based survival RPG.

$19.99

Tin Can

Keep a battered escape pod breathing in the void, managing every system by hand as the air runs thin.

$19.99

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