Games like Sunken Engine

Miss the mysterious and atmospheric pull of Sunken Engine? These games are worth a look next.

SUNLESS SEA
Captain a steamship across a vast underground sea, where the writing is the weapon and the dark is the enemy. Trade in souls, hire officers with secrets, watch your crew's sanity fray, and die. Then send your heir out with the family fortune to do it all again, better.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Surreal
83% of 7,648 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 58$18.99
Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop
A roguelite spaceship repair sim on a lonely space station. Fix procedurally generated ship modules with tools, manuals and shaking hands, pay the ever-rising R.E.N.T to your corporate overlord, and chat with cultists, black hole feeders and worse. Funny, grim, tactile and unlike much else.
Also in Simulators · Mysterious, Atmospheric, Surreal
84% of 1,117 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$19.99
Ship Graveyard Simulator
A dozen kilometers of beach, hundreds of wrecks, thousands of tons of steel. Book a ship, climb aboard with a hammer and a cutting torch, and strip it of everything valuable. Sell the scrap, upgrade your tools, hire a crew, and turn a rusty job into a tidy little empire on the shore.
Also in Simulators
64% of 2,160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 41$1.04
DREDGE
Captain a small trawler in a strange archipelago by day, sell what you catch, upgrade your boat, and piece together what the fog is hiding. DREDGE is a slow, moody fishing adventure where the fish get weirder the further you sail, and night is never worth the risk. Until you go anyway.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Surreal
95% of 48,461 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 834$24.99
Static Dread: The Lighthouse
A Lovecraftian lighthouse keeper sim: guide ships through the dark by radio, keep the generator alive, and keep your sanity while something impossible settles in. Fifteen nights, strange visitors, branching choices and several endings. Papers, Please dread with tentacles.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Surreal
90% of 1,446 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$10.90
The Last Caretaker
You are the last working Caretaker, a machine with one job: fish human seeds from a drowned Earth, grow them in the Lazarus Complex, and launch them back to the stars. Scavenge wrecks, wire up power, fight off rogue machines, and read a flooded world as you go.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Dark
86% of 14,060 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2,169$34.99
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.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
95% of 882 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$1.99
These Darker Tides
Welcome [EMPLOYEE] to your new job protecting Deep Sea Cables from creatures of the deep. We're not liable for loss of limbs, sanity, or life while on the job. Don't forget to keep your desk clean and your eyes on those cameras!
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Surreal
92% of 77 Steam reviews are positive$4.79
The Sinking City Remastered
Oakmont is half under water and entirely out of its mind. As private investigator Charles Reed you dig through a Lovecraftian open city, question witnesses who may not be sane, and piece cases together in your Mind Palace. The writing and atmosphere are the draw; the shooting is just something you survive between cases.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Surreal
75% of 5,508 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 86$39.99
Lighthouse Keeper
You are tasked with taking care of the old Lighthouse in a small island. Repair its broken parts, hunt for food to get by, gather materials to craft stuff to help you along your journey through 11 islands.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Story-driven
80% of 338 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim
Run a shop on a dystopian space station where the best margins live in legal gray zones. Craft, trade and smuggle, judge every customer, and pick which kind of trouble you monetize. Rent rises every week. How far you go to pay it is up to you.
Mysterious, Story-driven, Dark
87% of 14,387 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 52,418$17.99
Sunless Skies: Sovereign Edition
Captain a steam locomotive through a Victorian empire among the stars, where the stars are alive and dying. Smuggle souls, upgrade your engine, and lose captains to the dark while their heirs inherit the world. A slow, gorgeous, story-soaked game with over 800,000 words of some of the strangest writing in games.
Mysterious, Atmospheric, Surreal
84% of 2,666 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 40$24.99

Cheaper than Sunken Engine

Ship Graveyard Simulator

Buy beached wrecks, tear them apart piece by piece with your torch and hammer, then sell the steel and grow your salvage business on the shore.

$1.04

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

These Darker Tides

Welcome [EMPLOYEE] to your new job protecting Deep Sea Cables from creatures of the deep.

$4.79

Selkie's Salvage&Co.

Hook trash out of the water as a little robot, upgrade your gear and clear the sky one haul at a time.

$7.99

Ravenous Devils

Run a tailoring business above and a busy pub below, serving customers by day and feeding your dark trade by night.

$4.99

Water You Doing?

Your ride is dead, and rough waters lie ahead! Survive aboard a musty boat in a totally chaotic co-op.

$7.99

Shipwrecked 64

Rescue Bucky's friends from a strange island, then keep digging: the answers go deeper than the screen.

$7.99

Meat Grinder: Hotdog Simulator

Run your own hot dog shop in the foggy town of Grimshore. Cook and serve by day, solve your meat shortage by night, and try not to ask too many…

$7.99

Creepy Shift: House For Sale

Handyman needed - ASAP! The investor’s coming in the morning, and the house still isn’t ready! Take on an extra shift where horror meets simulation.

$6.99

Endless Dark

An existential horror game in which you are tasked with keeping a sleeper colony ship intact.

$7.99

Retail Hell

You are the only clerk of purgatory's only convenience store, stuck in a shift that never ends.

$7.99

The Caribbean Sail

Name your crew, purchase supplies, sail the world, harpoon fish, plunder your enemies, die horribly, unlock a new Captain and do it all over again!

$4.49

Hidden gems like Sunken Engine

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

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

Selkie's Salvage&Co.

Hook trash out of the water as a little robot, upgrade your gear and clear the sky one haul at a time.

$7.99

DRUDGE

You are a slave. A collar with three lights hangs around your neck: each one fades and shocks you for mistakes or disobedience.

$12.99

The Last Gas Station

An old gas station in the wilderness is yours to fix up, in a world that has moved on to electric cars.

$13.99

Static Dread: The Lighthouse

A Lovecraftian lighthouse keeper sim: guide ships through the dark by radio, keep the generator alive, and keep your sanity while something…

$10.90

The Sinking City 2

Fight through a flooded city where every bullet counts, the dead won't stay down, and something ancient waits beneath the water.

$49.99

Creepy Shift: House For Sale

Handyman needed - ASAP! The investor’s coming in the morning, and the house still isn’t ready! Take on an extra shift where horror meets simulation.

$6.99

Static Dread: The Submarine

A first-person Lovecraftian horror aboard a nuclear submarine lost in the North Atlantic.

$11.99

Uncle Chop's Rocket Shop

Repair strange spaceships by the manual, pay your corporate landlord, and see how long you last before it all goes wrong again.

$19.99

Probably Stolen - Cyberpunk Shopkeeper Sim

Run a shady little shop on a dystopian space station, crafting and trading your way through a rising weekly bill. ---

$17.99

Outbreak Island

Search a fog-bound island for your missing father while the dead rise after dark and a ruined farm slowly becomes your stronghold.

$14.99

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