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 41.1% ★, Underwater 24.3% ★, Co-op 17.8%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Simulation 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is the closest match on Steam: a 2D co-op submarine game built around crewing stations, fighting sea monsters, and barely holding the vessel together under pressure.

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 54.9%, Multiplayer 31.9%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Action 2.7%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: Like Barotrauma, it thrives on multiplayer station-juggling, emergency repairs, upgrades, and frantic teamwork aboard a vulnerable craft.

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 33.7%, Multiplayer 20.9%, Horror 18.5%, Sci-fi 13.6%, 2D 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This nails the 2D sci-fi horror, monster encounters, and claustrophobic expedition vibe that makes Barotrauma so tense.

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 49.6% ★, Co-op 16.1%, Underwater 14.8% ★, Naval 7% ★, Simulation 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its communication-heavy multiplayer submarine simulation captures Barotrauma's crew-role coordination and dependence on every player doing their job.

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 16.9%, Simulation 11%, Action 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: This delivers the same role-based co-op fantasy in space, with players piloting, repairing, shooting, and coordinating through shipboard crises together.

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 52.8% ★, Naval 13.8% ★, Moddable 11.5% ★, Survival 8.4%, Management 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Although single-player, its detailed submarine operations, crew management, leaks, damage control, and survival pressure strongly echo Barotrauma's sim side.

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 26.9%, Survival Horror 19.5%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Horror 13.8%, Difficult 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its brutal co-op survival-horror depends on communication, specialized roles, limited resources, and recovering from sudden disasters as a team.

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 41.3% ★, Survival Horror 17.1%, Multiplayer 16.9%, Horror 13.3%, Sci-fi 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: The underwater setting, co-op coordination, and panic-prone monster encounters make it a strong thematic match even without the same simulation depth.

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

Why similar: Co-op 34.4%, Survival Horror 27.4%, Horror 23.6%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Psychological Horror 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It captures Barotrauma's talent for generating hilarious and terrifying co-op catastrophes through teamwork, scavenging, and sudden creature threats.

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 11.8%, Action 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: While more action-focused, its class-based co-op, repair-heavy objectives, swarms, and emergent mission disasters hit a similar teamwork sweet spot.

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 26.4%, Survival 24.3%, Difficult 18.9%, Strategy 13.9%, Simulation 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It turns shipboard crisis management into its core loop, asking you to juggle crew, repairs, breaches, fires, power, and desperate decisions in real time.

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 40.2% ★, Survival 21.8%, Horror 12.5%, Survival Horror 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers the same fear of hostile underwater unknowns, survival improvisation, and constant environmental danger, just in a solo open-world format.

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%, Multiplayer 26.9%, Sci-fi 19.8%, Simulation 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its co-op survival, crafting, base upkeep, and weird sci-fi threats make it a good fit for players who enjoy teamwork under constant danger.

It’s co-op space survival fun, Jim, but not as we know it. This Means Warp is an intense spaceship management roguelite experience for 1-4 players. Explore a procedurally generated universe, upgrade your ship, battle dangerous enemies and adapt your strategies to survive in a hostile galaxy.

Why similar: Co-op 31.2%, Survival 29.6%, Multiplayer 18.4%, Sci-fi 11.6%, Strategy 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op spaceship roguelite centers on players manning stations, repairing systems, and surviving escalating chaos together.

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

Why similar: Co-op 49.6%, Multiplayer 28.6%, Sci-fi 11.5%, 2D 6.1%, Action 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its whole appeal is sprinting between ship stations with friends to steer, shield, and fire under constant pressure.

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

Why similar: Submarine 66.1% ★, Naval 18.4% ★, Simulation 6.9%, Strategy 4.6%, Multiplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the tense, methodical vulnerability of operating a submarine where one bad decision can quickly become fatal.

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 42.5%, Simulation 30.9%, Strategy 26.6%

Why You'll Like It: Managing a mobile war machine with teammates, coordinating subsystems, and handling operations in real time gives it a similar command-and-crisis feel.

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

Why similar: Submarine 51.6% ★, Underwater 29.8% ★, Horror 11.2%, Sci-fi 4.7%, Psychological Horror 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: Few games match Barotrauma's claustrophobic vessel-horror better, even if this one is shorter and entirely single-player.

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 38.6% ★, Co-op 33%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Simulation 5.4%, Action 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: This is a co-op underwater sci-fi game full of hostile depths, mechanical combat, and aquatic atmosphere that should appeal to Barotrauma fans.

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 38.8% ★, Survival 19.8%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Survival Horror 11.4%, Horror 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a bit more narrative-driven than Subnautica, but still offers underwater survival, creature dread, and harsh environmental pressure.

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 29.1% ★, Co-op 16.4%, Survival Horror 13.7%, Survival 12.7%, Multiplayer 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Being hunted in the deep by lethal sea predators captures the same aquatic fear and multiplayer tension that Barotrauma often creates.

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: Its underwater submarine exploration, crew management, and oppressive deep-sea tone make it one of the better single-player alternatives.

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 40.1%, Co-op 21.3%, Multiplayer 19.6%, Survival Horror 12.7%, Simulation 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It shares Barotrauma's unforgiving multiplayer survival, role specialization, injury management, and emergent disaster storytelling.

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 53.3% ★, Survival Horror 23.5%, Horror 18.8%, Psychological Horror 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This focuses on underwater survival-horror, vulnerability, and psychological pressure in a way that overlaps with Barotrauma's darkest moments.

You've barely managed to escape your exploding spaceship. Now in an old escape pod, you hurtle through space at the mercy of the cosmos. With no knowledge of the pod’s complex systems, your life depends on a technical manual and your own wits. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Survival 33.6%, Survival Horror 19.3%, Sci-fi 15.1%, Simulation 11.8%, Management 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part of Barotrauma is keeping failing machinery alive under stress, this strips that maintenance panic down to its essentials.

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 52.2% ★, Survival 47.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative engineering, vehicle operation, and hands-on repair work strongly appeal to players who love Barotrauma's systems-driven chaos.

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 31.6% ★, Co-op 15.9%, Survival 14.7%, Multiplayer 12%, Survival Horror 10.7%

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 31.6%, Horror 16.1%, Survival Horror 15.7%, Multiplayer 9.9%, Gore 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its brutal co-op sci-fi horror, procedural ship layouts, and reliance on close coordination make it a worthy pick for fans of chaotic team survival.

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 30.5% ★, Underwater 16.9% ★, Co-op 10%, Naval 8.5% ★, 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 29.8%, Co-op 28.8%, Horror 16.6%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Sci-fi 7.6%

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 63.1%, Horror 31.2%, Action 5.6%

The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.

Why similar: Survival 25.1%, Co-op 24.9%, Multiplayer 21.8%, Horror 14.1%, Survival Horror 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its emphasis on communication, limited resources, and lethal co-op mistakes makes it a solid match for Barotrauma's harsher survival side.

DISTRUST is an isometric survival adventure with procedural generation on an Arctic research station lost in the endless dark of a polar night. A story-rich fiction with multiple endings that suits both singleplayer fans and co-op enthusiasts.

Why similar: Survival Horror 19.7%, Survival 19.3%, Co-op 19%, Multiplayer 12.3%, Horror 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: The oppressive atmosphere, harsh survival management, and constant threat of collapse give it some of the same desperate energy.

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

Why similar: Submarine 36% ★, Underwater 23.8% ★, Multiplayer 10.1%, Co-op 9.7%, Survival Horror 8.6%

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 22.7%, Multiplayer 21.2%, Survival Horror 16.9%, Horror 15.9%, Survival 10.2%

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 31.8%, Horror 24.9%, Multiplayer 22.1%, Sci-fi 13.9%, Psychological Horror 4.3%

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 47.8% ★, Underwater 24% ★, Survival Horror 11.4%, Horror 7.7%, Management 3.3%

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 46.1% ★, Underwater 27% ★, Survival Horror 13.2%, Horror 8.1%, Sci-fi 4.3%

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: Co-op 24.8%, Survival 23.7%, Survival Horror 20.8%, Multiplayer 17.3%, Horror 13.4%

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 49.9% ★, Underwater 28.2% ★, Co-op 7.4%, Horror 7.3%, Multiplayer 3.2%

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 2.4%

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 46.2% ★, Underwater 32.5% ★, Horror 8.8%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Simulation 3.3%

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 25.2%, Survival Horror 23.5%, Survival 15.7%, Multiplayer 15.6%, Horror 10.6%

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 27% ★, Survival Horror 23.5%, Horror 17.5%, Gore 12%, Sci-fi 11.7%

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 27%, Survival 26.2%, Multiplayer 25.9%, Gore 7.3%, Horror 5.4%

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 53.1%, Horror 40%, Action 6.9%

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 23.6%, Sci-fi 20.4%, Multiplayer 18.8%, Difficult 13.5%, 2D 7.4%

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 42.3%, Horror 22.3%, Sci-fi 19.6%, 2D 9.6%, Action 4.6%

A dystopian simulator where your choices shape a decaying city. Join other players to protect the metropolis from ruin, hasten its downfall, or simply work in the factories. With no set goals or rules, every action has consequences in a world teetering on the brink.

Why similar: Survival 34.6%, Multiplayer 28.5%, Sci-fi 16.3%, Simulation 12.3%, Psychological Horror 8.3%

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 23.1%, Moddable 21.1% ★, Survival 20%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Management 11.4%

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 53.6% ★, Underwater 28.7% ★, Horror 13.6%, Psychological Horror 3.4%, Singleplayer 0.7%

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 36.3%, Simulation 24.1%, Strategy 23.6%, Action 10.1%, Singleplayer 5.9%

Trapped in a sinking submarine, two players must communicate through walkie-talkies to solve puzzles, complete tasks, navigate the depths, and escape before time runs out.

Why similar: Co-op 32%, Submarine 25.8% ★, Multiplayer 16.8%, Underwater 10.6% ★, Horror 7.2%

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 57.3% ★, Underwater 36.2% ★, 2D 3.3%, Psychological Horror 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.8%

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

Why similar: Submarine 52.6% ★, Underwater 31.8% ★, Horror 10.5%, Simulation 4.8%, Singleplayer 0.3%

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

Why similar: Survival 30.5%, Horror 19.4%, Difficult 16.5%, Sci-fi 11.8%, Simulation 7.8%

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 45.3% ★, Survival 13.4%, Multiplayer 10.7%, Gore 9.4%, Horror 8.2%

IT Simulator is a co-op horror game where two players attempt to return power to an office building. Take the role of the all-seeing Control Room or the stealthy Repair Technician as you risk everything to d̶i̶s̶c̶o̶v̶e̶r̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶t̶r̶u̶t̶h̶ escape.

Why similar: Horror 33.6%, Co-op 28.7%, Multiplayer 24.9%, Sci-fi 12.7%