Games Like Barotrauma

DIVE. DISCOVER. DIE. Crew a submarine with friends in We Need To Go Deeper - a 2-4-player cooperative submarine roguelike set in a Verne-inspired undersea universe.

Why similar: Submarine 41.5% ★, Underwater 24.1% ★, Co-op 17.7%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Simulation 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Another co-op submarine game where players scramble between stations to pilot, repair, fight monsters, and survive increasingly chaotic dives.

Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!

Why similar: Co-op 47.9%, Multiplayer 27.6%, Sci-fi 12.2%, Simulation 7.8%, Action 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is a hectic co-op ship game about manning stations, fixing damage, upgrading systems, and surviving hostile missions together.

A crew of players experience the tense atmosphere of a WW2 U-boat, manning the stations in this realistic co-op simulation game. Several crews may play together in a wolfpack, completing missions based on iconic events during the different stages of German U-boat warfare. Solo play included.

Why similar: Submarine 49.8% ★, Co-op 16.2%, Underwater 14.6% ★, Naval 7.1% ★, Simulation 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: If you want Barotrauma's station-by-station teamwork with a more realistic submarine sim bent, this multiplayer U-boat game is one of the closest matches.

The co-op open-world space sim where everyone has a role! Pilot the ship. Reroute power. Launch nukes. Explore alien planets. Research new talents. Work together to find the Lost Colony! ...or just deliver some biscuits

Why similar: Co-op 44.8%, Multiplayer 24.8%, Sci-fi 17%, Simulation 10.8%, Action 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: It translates Barotrauma's crew-role chaos into space, with coordinated piloting, engineering, navigation, combat, and mission-based survival.

Hidden Deep is an atmospheric sci-fi action game heavily inspired by Aliens, The Thing, and Half-Life. Explore, climb, swim, scan, blast and shoot your way through dangerous missions in a huge sub oceanic mining and research facility. Fear the horrors that lurk below…

Why similar: Co-op 33.5%, Multiplayer 21%, Horror 18.6%, Sci-fi 13.6%, 2D 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A side-view sci-fi horror game with hostile creatures, claustrophobic environments, and a strong 'keep the expedition alive' feel.

UBOAT is a simulator of a submarine from WWII era. It is a survival sandbox with crew management mechanics while its primary theme is life of German sailors. The boat is their home, but it can become their grave at any time.

Why similar: Submarine 53.1% ★, Naval 14% ★, Moddable 11.5% ★, Survival 8.4%, Management 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Singleplayer but deeply focused on managing a cramped submarine, crew needs, system failures, and tense underwater danger.

GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.

Why similar: Co-op 26.6%, Survival Horror 19.4%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Horror 13.8%, Difficult 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same reliance on communication, specialist roles, and survival under constant monster pressure, just in an FPS format.

Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

Why similar: Co-op 52.3%, Survival 20%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Horror 11.7%, Action 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: Another co-op mission game where class coordination, repairs, resource management, and surviving swarms create similar team tension.

Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.

Why similar: Underwater 41.1% ★, Survival Horror 17%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Horror 13.5%, Sci-fi 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the underwater co-op horror angle while turning teamwork and escalating disasters into darkly comic panic.

Diluvion is a 3D deep sea, Jules Verne inspired, exploration game with RPG elements and thrilling submarine combat. As the Captain of your own vessel, you must grow and manage your crew as you search for the secrets of the past in a hauntingly beautiful flooded world.

Why similar: Underwater 61.7% ★, Submarine 34.1% ★, Action 3.8%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Why You'll Like It: It blends undersea exploration, submarine combat, and crew management in a monster-filled world that feels very close to Barotrauma's aquatic sci-fi vibe.

A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

Why similar: Co-op 34.2%, Survival Horror 27.3%, Horror 23.8%, Sci-fi 9%, Psychological Horror 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: The constant risk of sudden disaster, monster encounters, and funny-but-deadly co-op mismanagement will feel very familiar.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Underwater 39.9% ★, Survival 21.9%, Horror 12.6%, Survival Horror 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Though solo, its underwater survival loop and creature-driven dread hit many of the same exploration and terror notes.

Own the skies in steam-powered airships! Guns of Icarus Alliance is a team-based online game that pits co-op crews against both rival teams and an AI that learns your tactics. Players become part of the story as each battle shapes history in an ever-changing steampunk world.

Why similar: Co-op 45.6%, Multiplayer 32.1%, Simulation 14.6%, Action 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Built around multiplayer crews repairing systems, reloading weapons, and coordinating ship maneuvers during hectic battles.

Dive into a freezing underwater adventure on an alien planet. Below Zero is set two years after the original Subnautica. Return to Planet 4546B to uncover the truth behind a deadly cover-up. Survive by building habitats, crafting tools, & diving deeper into the world of Subnautica.

Why similar: Underwater 38.7% ★, Survival 19.9%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Survival Horror 11.4%, Horror 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the underwater survival, isolation, and leviathan anxiety that many Barotrauma players enjoy.

Explore a neon galaxy in your very own battleship in this 1- to 4-player couch co-op adventure.

Why similar: Co-op 49.3%, Multiplayer 28.7%, Sci-fi 11.6%, 2D 6%, Action 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its 2D co-op has the same frantic station-hopping rhythm of manning guns, shields, and engines under pressure.

A short horror game where you pilot a tiny submarine through an ocean of blood on an alien moon.

Why similar: Submarine 51.8% ★, Underwater 29.4% ★, Horror 11.3%, Sci-fi 4.7%, Psychological Horror 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A compact, oppressive submarine horror experience that zeroes in on the fear of being trapped in a tiny vessel with something outside.

Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

Why similar: Survival 30.6%, Horror 19.4%, Difficult 16.8%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Simulation 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its 2D interface-driven exploration of dangerous derelicts captures Barotrauma's tension of managing fragile systems against unseen horrors.

Space Engineers is a sandbox engineering game where you design and build ships, stations, and planetary bases in a fully destructible environment. Explore planets and space, mine resources, survive hazards, and engage in combat alone or with friends in Creative or Survival modes.

Why similar: Co-op 25.7%, Moddable 22.9% ★, Survival 20.2%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Co-op shipbuilding, damage control, and keeping complex machinery functioning make it a good sandbox pick for Barotrauma tinkerers.

We left the surface of the Earth in ruins, abandoned it and populated the oceans. The sea is now our new home. We call it Aqua. Pilot customized fighter ships and explore a deep sea dystopia torn by the struggle for resources and survival. Enter the unforgiving world of Aquanox Deep Descent.

Why similar: Underwater 38.5% ★, Co-op 33%, Multiplayer 17.4%, Simulation 5.3%, Action 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op underwater sci-fi combat game that shares Barotrauma's submarine setting and hostile deep-sea atmosphere.

Can you deal with unrelenting disaster and hold your ship together long enough to destroy the enemy invaders? Repair systems, extinguish fires, arm the torpedoes, avoid deadly solar flares, destroy your friends and clone them back again; it's all in the life of a Catastronaut!

Why similar: Action 100%

Why You'll Like It: More arcade-like, but it recreates the same fun of scrambling around a doomed vessel to repair systems, fight fires, and keep the ship running.

S.B.T.F. is a very hard arcade-style / rogue-like / perma-death first person shooter. You play as Marines who must brave dark, claustrophobic and terrifyingly intense Space Beast infested spacecraft in order to extract critical data and lucrative upgrades. Can you make it out alive?

Why similar: Co-op 31.4%, Horror 16.2%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Gore 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A brutally claustrophobic co-op sci-fi shooter where teamwork and survival against monsters come before heroics.

A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.

Why similar: Co-op 37.5%, Survival 28.9%, Multiplayer 20.2%, Simulation 8.4%, Action 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: Living out of a mobile drilling ship while crafting, repairing, and fending off attacks scratches a similar 'mobile base under siege' itch.

Join a world where you design, create and pilot your own air sea rescue service. Release your inner hero as you battle fierce storms out at sea to rescue those in need.

Why similar: Naval 52.5% ★, Survival 47.5%

Why You'll Like It: For players who love Barotrauma's mechanical side, it offers detailed co-op vehicle operation, troubleshooting, and emergent disasters.

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Why similar: Survival 32.7%, Co-op 30.5%, Multiplayer 22.6%, Underwater 11% ★, Simulation 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: It lacks the horror intensity, but the co-op survival, crafting, and constant upkeep of a vulnerable moving home overlap nicely.

Chocks away! Bomber Crew is a strategic simulation game, where picking the right crew and keeping your bomber in tip top shape is the difference between completing your mission or losing it all! USAAF DLC NOW AVAILABLE! FLY THE ICONIC AMERICAN BOMBER!

Why similar: Management 29.8%, Survival 20.9%, Simulation 17.7%, Difficult 14.2%, Strategy 13%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps the submarine for a bomber, but the core appeal of assigning crew roles and patching disasters mid-mission is very close.

An online multiplayer game about shapeshifting deception and betrayal! As a hapless, brave spaceman employed by The Company you'll work diligently to defend and be rescued from failing outposts, but not everyone around you is who they claim to be...

Why similar: Co-op 25.1%, Survival Horror 23.5%, Survival 15.8%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Horror 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its sci-fi co-op, hidden-monster tension, and chaotic survival vibe line up with Barotrauma's darker multiplayer antics.

Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.

Why similar: Underwater 31% ★, Co-op 16.2%, Survival 15.1%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Survival Horror 10.7%

Carrier Command 2 is the real-time strategy game that puts you in command of a futuristic carrier capable of deploying a vast array of aircraft and amphibious units. Compete against AI or human players and hop into every single vehicle to take matters into your own hands!

Why similar: Management 42.2%, Simulation 30.9%, Strategy 27%

Why You'll Like It: Another systems-heavy vehicle command game where coordinating machines and managing combat pressure matters more than twitch skill.

Darkwater is a cooperative extraction horror game for 1-4 players. Command a submarine trapped under the ice of an alien planet. Battle enemy vessels and deep sea abominations as you hunt for resources. Do what it takes to survive.

Why similar: Submarine 30.7% ★, Underwater 16.7% ★, Co-op 9.9%, Naval 8.6% ★, Survival 8.5%

Venture forth as part of a specialized team of fellow players tasked with retrieving classified materials, evading the black goo virus, and the nightmarish entities it has spawned. With time running out before the US government initiates a devastating nuclear strike to contain the spreading menace.

Why similar: Survival Horror 29.7%, Co-op 28.8%, Horror 16.6%, Multiplayer 12.4%, Sci-fi 7.5%

Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.

Why similar: Survival 44.4%, Multiplayer 26.8%, Sci-fi 19.8%, Simulation 9%

Aliens: Fireteam Elite is a cooperative third-person survival game set in the iconic Alien Universe. Battle through hordes of different types of Xenomorph, customize your character and gear, and level-up as you try to contain this ever-growing threat.

Why similar: Co-op 30.5%, Survival Horror 17.7%, Survival 17.6%, Horror 12.3%, Sci-fi 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Squad-based sci-fi action against swarming monsters delivers a more action-heavy version of Barotrauma's creature-fighting stress.

FULL METAL COFFIN is a 3D co-op submarine simulator. Crew your vessel with up to 4 players. Load the torpedoes, dodge incoming fire, and eliminate the enemy.

Why similar: Submarine 37.6% ★, Underwater 19.6% ★, Co-op 15.4%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Management 4.8%

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Why similar: Survival 58.8%, Horror 21.9%, Naval 11.2% ★, 2D 5.6%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: If Barotrauma's oppressive nautical atmosphere grabbed you as much as the co-op systems gameplay, this leans hard into that dread.

KLETKA is a co-op (up to 6 players) horror game about going down in an elevator that is trying to eat you. Feed the elevator, explore deadly floors and descend deeper.

Why similar: Co-op 62.7%, Horror 31.6%, Action 5.7%

Explore abandoned biospheres at the bottom of the ocean, alone or with up to 4 friends.

Why similar: Submarine 36.3% ★, Underwater 23.6% ★, Multiplayer 10.1%, Co-op 9.6%, Survival Horror 8.5%

Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.

Why similar: Co-op 22.5%, Multiplayer 21.2%, Survival Horror 16.9%, Horror 15.9%, Survival 10.3%

Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.

Why similar: Survival Horror 31.7%, Horror 25.4%, Multiplayer 22.3%, Sci-fi 13.5%, Psychological Horror 4.2%

Operate an oil-drilling submarine while taking instructions from a mysterious voice. Fail your quota, and they’ll cut your oxygen. This is deep-sea horror. Obey or drown.

Why similar: Submarine 48.1% ★, Underwater 23.8% ★, Survival Horror 11.3%, Horror 7.7%, Management 3.3%

Every descent is a deadly gamble. DIVE or DIE in the cursed abyss, face Eldritch horrors to uncover the mystery of the black rain. Scavenge and upgrade, recruit and sacrifice. Save your camp... The Flood is coming.

Why similar: Underwater 39.4% ★, Survival Horror 17.9%, Survival 15.7%, Horror 10.7%, Management 8.7%

As captain of the Pandora sub, you must explore the Trench and retrieve data from the Neptune wreckage. But beware - the trench is home to unimaginable horrors that will test your courage. Can you survive the terrors of the deep and complete your mission, or will you become the next victim?

Why similar: Submarine 46.4% ★, Underwater 26.7% ★, Survival Horror 13.1%, Horror 8.2%, Sci-fi 4.2%

Play as a shark or a diver in a dark aquatic world and overcome your enemies by employing cunning, teamwork, and stealth. Depth blends tension and visceral action as you team up against AI or be matched with other players in heart pounding combat.

Why similar: Underwater 28.9% ★, Co-op 16.3%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Survival 12.8%, Multiplayer 10.6%

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Survival 62.2%, Co-op 16.3%, Multiplayer 12.9%, Survival Horror 3%, Difficult 2.5%

The year is 1997. Pilot a small submersible into the depths of the Pacific to investigate a massive sonar anomaly. Navigate by instruments, scan targets, and uncover something far older than it should be.

Why similar: Submarine 51.6% ★, Underwater 32.8% ★, Horror 6.6%, Simulation 4%, Sci-fi 3%

CRUSH DEPTH is first-person sci-fi horror game set at the bottom of the ocean. A salvage operation that would set you up for life goes sideways when you realize you're not alone down there. You'll solve puzzles and run from danger as you uncover the mysterious fate of Eclipse Station.

Why similar: Submarine 46.5% ★, Underwater 32.2% ★, Horror 8.8%, Sci-fi 7.5%, Simulation 3.2%

Avoid your watery grave in this asymmetrical co-op horror game where you and a friend take the roles of a submarine Pilot and Mechanic. Work together to repair the ship, solve puzzles, avoid a deadly creature, and make it back to the surface before time runs out! It's time to Sync or Swim

Why similar: Submarine 50.1% ★, Underwater 27.9% ★, Co-op 7.4%, Horror 7.4%, Multiplayer 3.4%

How long will you survive in this open water diving experience as you go head to head with terrifying Great Whites as they threaten to tear you apart?!

Why similar: Underwater 45.2% ★, Survival 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Gore 9.4%, Horror 8.3%

Design and simulate the starships of your dreams! Command your ship or fleet in epic battles and manage your crew while exploring a dangerous galaxy. Play alone or with friends, test your ships in online PvP, and let your imagination reach for the stars!

Why similar: Survival 23.7%, Sci-fi 20.4%, Multiplayer 18.9%, Difficult 13.7%, 2D 7.3%

From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.

Why similar: Underwater 26.8% ★, Survival Horror 23.5%, Horror 17.6%, Gore 12.1%, Sci-fi 11.6%

Subterranauts is a 1-6 player multiplayer horror game with proximity voice chat and terrifying creatures. Your job is to complete assignments by gathering scrap for the Association of Scrap Allocation. Work together with your team to complete assignments, earn company Bucks, and survive!

Why similar: Multiplayer 52.9%, Horror 40.1%, Action 7%

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Survival 40.2%, Co-op 21.3%, Multiplayer 19.5%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Simulation 3.8%

Descend into Lovecraftian horror aboard a claustrophobic military submarine. Assign tasks as a captain’s right hand, analyze sonar signals, make hard decisions, and keep the crew from madness. Dark horrors lurk both within… and beyond the hull.

Why similar: Submarine 51.8% ★, Underwater 28.4% ★, Horror 14.2%, Psychological Horror 4.6%, Singleplayer 0.9%

A deep-sea exploration company sends you and your friends to investigate a research facility that has mysteriously gone silent. Face terrifying events together, survive as a team, and uncover the truth hidden within the depths.

Why similar: Co-op 26%, Survival Horror 23.5%, Multiplayer 23.2%, Horror 19.3%, Psychological Horror 4.7%

Survival, horror at the sunless depths of the Pacific Ocean: Stranded on the seafloor with low light and few tools, an industrial diver takes desperate steps to surface before his oxygen — and sanity — give out.

Why similar: Underwater 53% ★, Survival Horror 23.6%, Horror 18.9%, Psychological Horror 4.5%

A short first-person horror game. An accident cripples your submarine while trying to find the wreck of the Titanic. In the darkness, you must restore life-support systems through tense puzzles, only to discover that you are not alone.

Why similar: Submarine 53.8% ★, Underwater 28.4% ★, Horror 13.6%, Psychological Horror 3.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Half dead is a multiplayer sci-fi game about a violent TV show. The players' goal is to survive in a network of rooms full of traps.

Why similar: Co-op 26.8%, Survival 26.3%, Multiplayer 25.9%, Gore 7.4%, Horror 5.5%

Battle for survival in the skies of a mysterious future Earth in this unique action-strategy game mixing arcade combat, exploration, management and diplomacy. As giant flying ships wage spectacular aerial warfare, a prophecy tells of one who will save the world – could it be you?

Why similar: Sci-fi 36.5%, Simulation 23.8%, Strategy 23.6%, Action 10.3%, Singleplayer 5.8%

Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must survive. Drag yourself through the hallways of an infested arcship, fight off twisted eldritch creatures, craft vaccines and ammunition, and escape to civilization.

Why similar: Survival Horror 42.2%, Horror 22.4%, Sci-fi 19.6%, 2D 9.4%, Action 4.7%