Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss
Uncover the mystery of Thalassa, a first-person psychological drama set under the sea.
86% of 324 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Games like Under The Waves
Remember how atmospheric and story-driven Under The Waves felt at its best? You might settle into these games easily.
Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss
Uncover the mystery of Thalassa, a first-person psychological drama set under the sea. Ill-fate has fallen on your former crew and friends and it’s up to you to find answers onboard the wreckage. Experience the melancholic underwater journey of human stories facing life and loss.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Emotional
86% of 324 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99ABZU
ABZÛ is a short underwater adventure about diving: you swim through a bright, living ocean, glide alongside schools of fish and whales, and uncover the ruins of a lost civilization. There is no dialogue and no fail state, just graceful movement, a gorgeous score and a story told entirely in pictures. Two or three hours of calm, with a few surprises in the deep.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Emotional
93% of 22,098 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99Beyond Blue
A calm underwater adventure where you play Mirai, a scientist exploring the ocean in the near future. Swim through eight dives, scan sea creatures, follow a family of sperm whales and unwind in a world with no combat, no timers and nothing chasing you. It plays like a documentary you move through yourself.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Emotional
88% of 1,058 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99Subnautica
You crash-land in a life pod on an alien ocean planet, with hunger, thirst, and oxygen to watch. Gather fish and minerals, craft diving gear and small subs, build a seafloor base, and push from bright coral shallows toward trenches, lava fields, and caves to find a way off the planet.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Dark
97% of 344,311 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3,928$29.99Submerged
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.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Emotional
75% of 4,329 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Aquaria
Aquaria is an award-winning action-adventure game set in a massive underwater world teeming with life and filled with ancient secrets. Join Naija, a lone underwater adventurer, as she travels from hidden caves shrouded in darkness, to beautiful, sunlit oases in search of her past.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Emotional
90% of 747 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99Debris
An atmospheric first-person narrative adventure set in a surreal seascape locked between ice and rock. Following an incident, you and a friend must find power, defeat strange and deadly creatures, and decipher what mysterious forces are attempting to prevent your escape. Escape together or die alone.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Emotional
60% of 97 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Stardiver
You're a Stardiver on a mission. Descend into the depths of an underwater world filled with wonder, mysteries, and peril. Discover the story behind the abandoned base. Explore this submerged planet and learn its history.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Dark
50% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Submersed
Rediscover the meaning of terror with Submersed. Are you afraid of depths? You will be.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Cinematic
45% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Song of the Deep
From the creators of Ratchet & Clank, Song of the Deep is a metroidvania-style action-adventure game following a young girl’s quest into the unknown to find her missing father. It combines underwater discovery, skill, and suspense with a powerful story.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Emotional
84% of 512 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Depths of Sanity
A mysterious signal. A missing crew. And the one man trying to piece it all together. As Abe Douglas, dive deep into a fully underwater metroidvania to explore massive oceanic biomes, battle monstrous bosses, and piece together a mystery that threatens not only your crew, but your own sanity.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Emotional
93% of 72 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Wavetale
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.
Atmospheric, Story-driven, Emotional
88% of 2,654 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99
Cheaper than Under The Waves
ABZU
Glide past fish and whales, no talking and no way to fail, while a short story unfolds in pictures and music.
93% of 22,098 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$19.99
Beyond Blue
You join a deep-sea research team, tracking whales and scanning sea life across eight peaceful dives.
88% of 1,058 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$19.99
Aquaria
Aquaria is an award-winning action-adventure game set in a massive underwater world teeming with life and filled with ancient secrets.
90% of 747 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Submerged
Sail a flooded ruin by boat, scale its overgrown towers and piece together a wordless story of a brother and sister.
75% of 4,329 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Debris
An atmospheric first-person narrative adventure set in a surreal seascape locked between ice and rock.
60% of 97 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Stardiver
You're a Stardiver on a mission. Descend into the depths of an underwater world filled with wonder, mysteries, and peril.
50% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
Song of the Deep
From the creators of Ratchet & Clank, Song of the Deep is a metroidvania-style action-adventure game following a young girl’s quest into the unknown…
84% of 512 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Submersed
Rediscover the meaning of terror with Submersed. Are you afraid of depths? You will be.
45% of 22 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Depths of Sanity
A mysterious signal. A missing crew. And the one man trying to piece it all together.
93% of 72 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
In Other Waters
Guide a stranded scientist through an alien sea as the AI in her diving suit, one signal and scan at a time.
88% of 2,115 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$14.99
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.
91% of 1,374 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$17.99
Hidden gems like Under The Waves
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.
91% of 1,374 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$17.99
Subside
Subside is an immersive aquatic VR experience with multiple areas to explore and lifelike aquatic creatures to interact with.
96% of 527 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
There's Nothing Down There
There's Nothing Down There is a short undersea horror exploration game.
84% of 440 Steam reviews are positive$2
Static Dread: The Submarine
A first-person Lovecraftian horror aboard a nuclear submarine lost in the North Atlantic.
82% of 366 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$11.99
Blood Orange: Definitive Edition
Underwater psychological horror with a shocking, character-driven narrative.
94% of 280 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss
Uncover the mystery of Thalassa, a first-person psychological drama set under the sea.
86% of 324 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
STASIS: BONE TOTEM
Their latest find, an abandoned rig in the Pacific, hides a secret the Cayne Corporation would kill to keep buried.
93% of 2,039 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$19.99
Wavetale
Glide across the waves of a drowned archipelago, swing from rooftops and help Sigrid save the islanders from the darkness below.
88% of 2,654 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$29.99
Submerged: Hidden Depths
Boat, climb, interact and explore in the beautiful ruins of a sunken world.
89% of 749 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$29.99
Death in the Water 2
Dive into a haunted open sea, scavenge for treasure and fight off swarms of sea creatures under the mind control of a giant Kraken.
83% of 1,751 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Still Wakes the Deep
An unarmed electrician flees through a ruined North Sea rig as something inhuman hunts the crew.
87% of 11,672 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 62$34.99
The Trench
As captain of the Pandora sub, you must explore the Trench and retrieve data from the Neptune wreckage.
85% of 161 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Newest games like Under The Waves
Depth Diver
Dive into an unforgiving underwater nightmare alone or with friends! Complete deadly missions for the Union in the terrifying depths of Gornak.
100% of 3 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Static Dread: The Submarine
A first-person Lovecraftian horror aboard a nuclear submarine lost in the North Atlantic.
82% of 366 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$11.99
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.
91% of 1,374 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 21$17.99
The Abyss Below
The year is 1997. Pilot a small submersible into the depths of the Pacific to investigate a massive sonar anomaly.
82% of 60 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
There's Nothing Down There
There's Nothing Down There is a short undersea horror exploration game.
84% of 440 Steam reviews are positive$2
Panthalassa
Panthalassa is a Point and click Puzzle game set in an underwater alien world.
98% of 106 Steam reviews are positive$13.99
Wavekin
Wavekin is a poetic and mysterious exploration and puzzle game, in which you explore a colourful reef and sing to control its creatures.
100% of 31 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
CRUSH DEPTH
CRUSH DEPTH is first-person sci-fi horror game set at the bottom of the ocean.
98% of 48 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
SUBMERSIBLE
1st person, Singleplayer, Ocean exploration, Horror game
80% of 10 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Sub-Verge
Conversation is a dangerous game. Manipulate a fractured band of renegade divers to reach the depths of this short narrative puzzle.
69% of 42 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
These Darker Tides
Welcome [EMPLOYEE] to your new job protecting Deep Sea Cables from creatures of the deep.
92% of 77 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Murky Divers
A co-op horror job at the bottom of the sea: dive into sunken labs with up to eight friends, destroy what Pharma Corps wants gone, and hope the dark…
87% of 3,999 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 29$8.99