Games Like Barotrauma

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%, Survival 8.5%, Naval 8.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op submarine expeditions, underwater monsters, scavenging, and constant need to keep the vessel functioning make it one of the closest horror-focused alternatives.

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 41.6% ★, Underwater 24% ★, Co-op 17.7%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Simulation 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is a highly compatible 2D co-op submarine game built around piloting, repairing, exploring dangerous depths, and surviving escalating creature attacks together.

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 20.9%, Horror 18.7%, Sci-fi 13.6%, 2D 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its 2D underwater facilities, damaged machinery, diving hazards, and alien-terror atmosphere strongly match Barotrauma's visual perspective and dread-filled setting.

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 40.9% ★, Survival Horror 17.2%, Multiplayer 16.8%, Horror 13.5%, Sci-fi 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Barotrauma, it sends a crew into claustrophobic underwater spaces where teamwork, salvage runs, and lurking horror create chaotic co-op stories.

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 16.3%, Underwater 14.6% ★, Naval 7% ★, Simulation 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: Wolfpack offers exceptionally detailed multiplayer submarine crew simulation, with players sharing navigation, sonar, weapons, and engineering responsibilities.

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 27.5%, Sci-fi 12.3%, Simulation 7.8%, Action 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op space-vessel roguelite captures the frantic feeling of jointly operating guns, repairs, navigation, and systems while everything goes wrong.

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 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Although more grounded and primarily single-player, it delivers deep submarine crew management, damage control, resource pressure, and tense underwater operations.

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 26.4%, Survival Horror 19.5%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Horror 13.9%, Difficult 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Barotrauma's unforgiving cooperative survival-horror tone, where communication, specialized teamwork, limited supplies, and panic under pressure are essential.

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 24.7%, Sci-fi 17.1%, Simulation 10.8%, Action 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: It translates Barotrauma's class-based cooperative vessel operation into space, with players piloting, repairing, fighting, exploring, and dealing with unpredictable crises.

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 30%, Co-op 28.4%, Horror 16.7%, Multiplayer 12.5%, Sci-fi 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op survival-horror game similarly makes a team balance survival tasks, hostile creatures, and a rapidly deteriorating mission situation.

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 39.8% ★, Survival 22%, Horror 12.6%, Survival Horror 9.5%, Multiplayer 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its alien ocean, crafting, diving, base systems, and fear of what waits outside the light make it an excellent single-player counterpart to Barotrauma's underwater survival.

Stationeers puts you in control of the construction and management of a space station to run by yourself or online with your friends. Complex atmospheric, electrical, manufacturing, agriculture, and gravitational systems require your thought and management at all times!

Why similar: Co-op 22.9%, Moddable 21.4%, Survival 20.4%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Management 11%

Why You'll Like It: Its demanding simulation of life support, electrical systems, atmospherics, and repairs will appeal to players who enjoy Barotrauma's technical problem-solving.

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 52.1%, Survival 20.1%, Sci-fi 12.8%, Horror 11.8%, Action 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: While set in caves rather than seas, its class synergy, procedural missions, monster swarms, repairs, and memorable co-op disasters evoke Barotrauma's team dynamic.

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 26.6% ★, Survival Horror 13.2%, Horror 8.2%, Sci-fi 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This submarine-set horror experience directly overlaps with Barotrauma's oppressive underwater isolation and fear of unknown creatures beyond the hull.

Spiritual Successor to the Microprose Classic “Red Storm Rising”.

Why similar: Submarine 66.6% ★, Naval 18.2% ★, Simulation 6.7%, Strategy 4.5%, Multiplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: This tense modern submarine simulator focuses on stealth, sonar, torpedoes, and the high-stakes decision-making of underwater combat.

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 44.8%, Multiplayer 26.5%, Sci-fi 19.7%, Simulation 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes collaborative survival inside a dangerous science facility, with crafting, base systems, resource management, and bizarre threats.

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 29.3% ★, Horror 11.3%, Sci-fi 4.7%, Psychological Horror 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It distills the terrifying side of submarine operation into a claustrophobic horror journey through an alien ocean with almost no visibility or safety.

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 38.6% ★, Survival 20.1%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Survival Horror 11.5%, Horror 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: This more focused Subnautica entry combines underwater survival, exploration, equipment management, and hostile alien environments in a compact arctic setting.

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

Why similar: Co-op 34.1%, Survival Horror 27.5%, Horror 23.8%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Psychological Horror 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its disposable co-op expeditions, scavenging, creature encounters, communication failures, and emergent comedy-horror make it a strong match for Barotrauma's chaos.

Disasters, enemies, and incompetence conspire to make each shift aboard the station a unique and hellish experience. Sign up today to explore intricate game mechanics and enjoy limitless player interaction! (Nanotrasen Inc. is not responsible for injury, death, or worse).

Why similar: Co-op 23.7%, Multiplayer 22.1%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Simulation 10.2%, Gore 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Inspired by the same social-simulation lineage, it emphasizes specialized crew roles, malfunctioning station systems, emergencies, and player-driven chaos.

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 22.4%, Multiplayer 21.1%, Survival Horror 17%, Horror 16%, Survival 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Players navigate a hostile containment facility through shifting roles, monsters, equipment, and unpredictable multiplayer betrayals and emergencies.

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 38.6% ★, Survival 35.4%, Multiplayer 26%

Why You'll Like It: Its detailed vehicle construction and cooperative operation reward crews who enjoy managing complex machinery and responding to disasters at sea.

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 28.8% ★, Co-op 16.2%, Survival Horror 13.8%, Survival 12.9%, Multiplayer 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This asymmetric underwater multiplayer game offers the same predatory ocean tension, with divers trying to complete objectives while creatures hunt them.

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 40.5%, Co-op 21.2%, Multiplayer 19.3%, Survival Horror 12.8%, Simulation 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its brutally detailed multiplayer survival systems and emergent player disasters appeal to the same audience that enjoys Barotrauma's demanding teamwork.

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 25.5%, Moddable 23%, Survival 20.4%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Simulation 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a sandbox for constructing and operating complex ships and stations whose power, oxygen, damage, and engineering systems demand attention.

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 23.8%, Sci-fi 20.4%, Multiplayer 18.8%, Difficult 13.7%, 2D 7.3%

Why You'll Like It: Designing a ship around crew paths, power, weapons, repairs, and survival gives it a satisfying systems-management resemblance to Barotrauma.

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 30.9% ★, Co-op 16.2%, Survival 15.2%, Multiplayer 12%, 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 41.9%, Simulation 31%, Strategy 27.1%

Why You'll Like It: Multiplayer crews coordinate a mobile command vessel, vehicles, resources, navigation, and combat, creating a similarly systems-heavy shared-operation experience.

This "spaceship simulation roguelike-like" allows you to take your ship and crew on an adventure through a randomly generated galaxy filled with glory and bitter defeat.

Why similar: Sci-fi 26.3%, Survival 24.5%, Difficult 19.3%, Strategy 13.7%, Simulation 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its pause-driven starship management centers on assigning crew, putting out fires, repairing critical systems, and surviving disasters with limited resources.

Sea of Thieves is a smash-hit pirate adventure game, offering the quintessential pirate experience of plundering lost treasures, intense battles, vanquishing sea monsters and more. Dive in with this revised edition of the game, which includes access to digital bonus media.

Why similar: Co-op 41.8%, Multiplayer 35.4%, Naval 18.5% ★, Action 3.6%, Singleplayer 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: It replaces submarines with pirate ships but retains the appeal of a crew coordinating navigation, repairs, combat, supplies, and sudden nautical disasters.

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 37.8% ★, Underwater 19.6% ★, Co-op 15.4%, Multiplayer 8.7%, Management 4.7%

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 62.6%, Horror 31.7%, Action 5.8%

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 31.9%, Horror 25.6%, Multiplayer 21.9%, Sci-fi 13.5%, Psychological Horror 4.2%

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 58.9%, Horror 21.9%, Naval 11.2% ★, 2D 5.6%, Singleplayer 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its oppressive Lovecraftian seafaring world, scarce supplies, strange encounters, and fragile vessel make it a strong atmospheric solo alternative.

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

Why similar: Submarine 36.3% ★, Underwater 23.5% ★, Multiplayer 10%, Co-op 9.5%, Survival Horror 8.6%

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 23.7% ★, Survival Horror 11.4%, Horror 7.7%, Management 3.2%

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 39.3% ★, Survival Horror 18.1%, Survival 15.9%, Horror 10.8%, Management 8.6%

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 51.7% ★, Underwater 32.7% ★, Horror 6.6%, Simulation 3.9%, Sci-fi 3%

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

Why similar: Survival 62.4%, Co-op 16.1%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Survival Horror 3%, Difficult 2.5%

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 50.2% ★, Underwater 27.8% ★, Horror 7.4%, Co-op 7.3%, Multiplayer 3.4%

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 46.6% ★, Underwater 32.1% ★, Horror 8.9%, Sci-fi 7.5%, Simulation 3.2%

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 26.7%, Survival 26.5%, Multiplayer 25.7%, Gore 7.4%, Horror 5.5%

Scavenger SV-4 is a highly replayable atmospheric first-person science fiction game. Part simulator, part roguelike, it has elements of action, combat, resource management, and a dash of horror. It is not quite like any game you have played before.

Why similar: Horror 41.4%, Sci-fi 26.4%, Simulation 21.9%, Action 7.9%, Singleplayer 2.5%

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 26.6% ★, Survival Horror 23.6%, Horror 17.7%, Gore 12%, Sci-fi 11.6%

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 31.2%, Horror 16.2%, Survival Horror 15.8%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Gore 8.6%

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 51.7% ★, Underwater 28.6% ★, 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 25.6%, Multiplayer 23.5%, Survival Horror 23.5%, Horror 19.4%, Psychological Horror 4.7%

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 28.3% ★, Horror 13.7%, Psychological Horror 3.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%

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 42.4%, Horror 22.4%, Sci-fi 19.5%, 2D 9.4%, Action 4.7%

Navigate your scrappy ship through the boneyard in search of valuable parts in abandoned vessels. Use salvage to upgrade your ship, or sell it for cash to pay down your mounting debt, or restock fuel, air, or food. Fly and role-play aboard your dream spaceship in this hardcore noir space-sim.

Why similar: Survival 45.8%, Difficult 26.5%, Simulation 14.4%, Sci-fi 13.3%

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 45.1% ★, Survival 13.5%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Gore 9.4%, Horror 8.3%

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.

Why similar: Submarine 57.7% ★, Underwater 35.7% ★, 2D 3.3%, Psychological Horror 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%

MISERY is a 1–10 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.

Why similar: Survival 24.8%, Co-op 23.9%, Survival Horror 20.6%, Multiplayer 17.2%, Horror 13.5%

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

Why similar: Survival 30.7%, Horror 19.4%, Difficult 16.8%, Sci-fi 11.7%, Simulation 7.5%

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 24.9%, Survival Horror 23.6%, Survival 15.9%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Horror 10.6%

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 52.6%, Horror 40.3%, Action 7.1%

Become a fearless underwater explorer and reach the bottom of The Mariana Trench to win 20,000* REAL DOLLARS!

Why similar: Submarine 53% ★, Underwater 31.4% ★, Horror 10.6%, Simulation 4.7%, Singleplayer 0.3%

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 23.7%, Strategy 23.5%, Action 10.4%, Singleplayer 5.8%