Games like Wake

If the tense and fast-paced rhythm of Wake stuck with you, this helps. You might settle into these games easily.

Gift
When the protagonist wakes up, he finds himself on a luxury cruise ship. The game revolves around the story of his attempts to escape from the sinking ship and a group of passengers he feels nostalgic about.
Tense, Fast-paced, Scary
75% of 76 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
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.
Tense, Scary, Chaotic
95% of 882 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 27$1.99
Shipwrecked 64
A lost puzzle adventure from 1997, recovered: help Bucky the Beaver rescue his friends from an island called Nulla Terra, fix the boat, and get home. Except the game has layers, the story gets dark, and the answers are partly outside the game. Bring a notebook.
Tense, Scary, Dark
95% of 2,452 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$7.99
Shipwreck Escape
Shipwreck Escape is a 2,5D immersive game with puzzle elements. The catastrophe happened when the cruise ship was sailing from Athens to Dubai. The main character is a croupier in a ship's casino and he got stuck in this sinking hell.
Tense, Fast-paced, Scary
91% of 11 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Shipwreck
Shipwreck is a top down adventure game in which you must travel the land, explore dungeons, and defeat monsters to earn safe passage off the island on which you are stranded.
Retro
82% of 263 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Nauticrawl
A stolen, enigmatic machine is your only way out. It's likely to kill you, but so will the hostile planet you're escaping. Pull levers, hack devices, and puzzle out how to pilot the Nauticrawl to freedom in this unusual atmospheric adventure... or die trying.
Tense, Scary, Dark
91% of 453 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Under: Depths of Fear
Enter the mind of traumatized WW1 veteran Alexander Dockter and experience the terrorizing nightmare of trying to escape a sinking ocean liner while being haunted by the most terrifying entities you’ve ever come across.
Tense, Scary, Dark
65% of 251 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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.
Fast-paced
88% of 2,648 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 9$4.49
Still Wakes the Deep
Disaster hits the Beira D oil rig in the 1970s North Sea, and something inhuman comes with it. You are an electrician with no weapons, running, climbing and swimming through a collapsing rig to save your crew. A tense, cinematic horror story with superb sound, acting and dread. It is short, and it does not waste a minute of it.
Tense, Scary, Dark
87% of 11,639 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 62$34.99
Black Sails - The Ghost Ship
Best played with the lights turned off and the volume turned up, Black Sails is a creepy and mysterious point-and-click adventure game.Two survivors of a shipwreck try to survive in the raging sea. Until another ship appears. Hoping for rescue, they are calling, but nobody answers. They manage to go on board. Will this be their rescue?
Tense, Scary, Dark
69% of 224 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
FAR: 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.
Tense, Dark
93% of 5,141 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Darkwater
Darkwater is a co-op extraction horror game for 1 to 4 players. Command a custom submarine trapped beneath the ice of an alien moon, fight enemy vessels and deep-sea things with too many teeth, and scavenge abandoned outposts for the fuel that keeps you alive.
Tense, Fast-paced, Scary
77% of 1,006 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 19$9.99

Hidden gems like Wake

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

Darwin's Paradox!

Darwin is a clever little octopus yanked from the ocean into a vast industrial complex, and he wants out.

$24.99

Sunken Engine

A first-person ship repair sim with a Lovecraftian twist. You inherit your father's shipyard on a strange island, fix the ships that dock there…

$8.84

Shipwrecked 64

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

$7.99

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

Welcome to the Game III

Simon owes dangerous people money, and tonight the only way out is The Game: dig through the dark net for hidden puzzle pieces, hack other PCs while…

$19.99

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…

$8.99

The Cave Diver

A brutally challenging physics-horror caving game. Using only your hands, drag yourself down a suffocating cave system where every hold pulls you…

$9.99

Awaria

Repair generators in haunted tunnels while fire, scrap and lightning chase you through a fast, funny bullet hell.

Free

Wavetale

Glide across the waves of a drowned archipelago, swing from rooftops and help Sigrid save the islanders from the darkness below.

$4.49

Submerged: Hidden Depths

Boat, climb, interact and explore in the beautiful ruins of a sunken world.

$29.99

Newest games like Wake

Time To Wake Up

You're stuck in a dream. Blink and change your surroundings to escape the shadows of your past.

$14.99

Sunken Engine

A first-person ship repair sim with a Lovecraftian twist. You inherit your father's shipyard on a strange island, fix the ships that dock there…

$8.84

30 Days On Ship: Castaway – The First Days

A castaway survival game on a container ship wrecked in the Pacific.

Free

The Cave Diver

A brutally challenging physics-horror caving game. Using only your hands, drag yourself down a suffocating cave system where every hold pulls you…

$9.99

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

Welcome to the Game III

Simon owes dangerous people money, and tonight the only way out is The Game: dig through the dark net for hidden puzzle pieces, hack other PCs while…

$19.99

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

Darwin's Paradox!

Darwin is a clever little octopus yanked from the ocean into a vast industrial complex, and he wants out.

$24.99

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

Crabmeat

A short first-person point & click survival horror game where you're a prisoner tasked with crabbing for priceless Southern King Crabs to pay off…

$7.99

Spilled!

Sail a little boat through polluted waterways, recycle the waste and rescue the animals stuck in it.

$5.99

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…

$8.99