60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Adventure, Exploration, Singleplayer, Indie.
Explore a mysterious sunken village, discover hidden objects, and uncover long forgotten secrets in this cozy narrative adventure. Travel through time to help Mora find her lost brother. Play on PC, or immerse yourself in VR.
Wavekin
Wavekin is a poetic and mysterious exploration and puzzle game, in which you explore a colourful reef and sing to control its creatures. You are a hatchling, tasked with finding out what happened to your species. Use your voice to open up the way, and restore balance to the ocean.
DRENCHED
Drenched is a 3D exploration adventure where a burned-out artist, Brie, becomes a fish. Switch between two characters, and traverse two mirrored worlds to uncover her story. Splash puddles on the surface and blow bubbles underwater to explore, solve puzzles, and reconnect her past and present.
Wavekin is a poetic and mysterious exploration and puzzle game, in which you explore a colourful reef and sing to control its creatures. You are a hatchling, tasked with finding out what happened to your species. Use your voice to open up the way, and restore balance to the ocean.
Why similar: Underwater 38.4% ★, Cozy 27.2%, Mystery 8.6%, Multiple Endings 8%, Interactive Fiction 6.7%
Drenched is a 3D exploration adventure where a burned-out artist, Brie, becomes a fish. Switch between two characters, and traverse two mirrored worlds to uncover her story. Splash puddles on the surface and blow bubbles underwater to explore, solve puzzles, and reconnect her past and present.
Why similar: Underwater 32.1% ★, Cozy 25.1%, Exploration 10.8%, Puzzle 7.8%, Surreal 7.5%
For a hermit crab, it’s difficult to find a place you can call home. Explore a large, underwater house, searching for a real seashell. Meet creatures and discover long buried secrets in this third-person, atmospheric adventure.
Why similar: Underwater 45.8% ★, Emotional 11.6%, Story Rich 9.8%, Exploration 9.4%, Mystery 7.6%
This is a sad story, a tragic moment. In the summer of 1945, atomic weapons were used for the first time in human history.
Why similar: Underwater 48.1% ★, VR 23.8%, Exploration 11.5%, Adventure 8.5%, First-Person 6.8%
Swim, let yourself carried with ocean currents, and search for phytoplankton alongside krill, a small crustacean. Guide a krill on a fascinating journey to reach the ice floe in this relaxing, interactive wildlife documentary.
Why similar: Underwater 53.5% ★, Cozy 18.1%, Emotional 8.3%, Exploration 7.6%, Atmospheric 4.1%
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.
Why similar: Underwater 24.9% ★, Emotional 17.1%, Interactive Fiction 17%, Story Rich 8%, Atmospheric 6.5%
Plunge into VR on a capsizing research ship, the Triton, where survival means outmaneuvering the water's lethal surge. Freedive through a sinking ship, overcome underwater chaos, and unlock your path to the surface, all while protecting your most precious resource: the breath in your lungs.
Why similar: Underwater 42.2% ★, VR 18.8%, Emotional 9.6%, Exploration 7.4%, Story Rich 7%
Blowhard is a leaf-blowing adventure, set in a cozy English village. Take on the role of Francis - a man with a loud leaf blower and a nose for trouble. Blow your way through a countryside mystery. Solve puzzles, clear autumn leaves, and annoy the locals.
Why similar: Cozy 36.7%, Interactive Fiction 12.6%, Mystery 10.7%, Story Rich 10.2%, Exploration 8.5%
Clean. Possess. Control. HOARDER begins as a mundane cleaning simulator which spirals into a submerged nightmare. Pilot a submarine, recover what shouldn’t be found, and uncover the secrets of your new home by night.
Why similar: Underwater 39% ★, Mystery 12.8%, Exploration 9.7%, Interactive Fiction 9.4%, Story Rich 7.6%
Beacon Pines is a cute and creepy adventure set within a mysterious book. Sneak out late, make new friends, uncover hidden truths, and collect words that will change the course of fate!
Why similar: Cozy 31.3%, Emotional 18.4%, Interactive Fiction 12.3%, Story Rich 9.6%, Exploration 8.1%
Photograph birds, decorate your lighthouse, and find companionable peace in Alight, a heartfelt cozy adventure about aging and absence
Why similar: Cozy 33.7%, Emotional 23.4%, Story Rich 10.8%, Interactive Fiction 10.3%, Female Protagonist 8.6%
Uncover a story of intrigue, betrayal, and a civilization teetering on the brink of collapse as you solve intricate puzzles to unlock the secrets of Riven. Built from the ground-up and expanded from the award-winning original game released in 1997.
Why similar: VR 14.6%, Emotional 13.6%, Mystery 11.7%, Exploration 9.6%, Story Rich 9.2%
Unravel a thread of mystery and memory as you progress your way through the atmospheric halls of a dazzlingly large, long-deserted labyrinth. Explore the vistas of spectacular rooms and the hidden challenges within. Do you have what it takes to find what lies at the labyrinth's centre?
Why similar: Cozy 23.3%, Mystery 13.3%, Emotional 12.7%, Exploration 9%, Puzzle 8%
Under the Water Depths is a first-person game in which you will dive into a trench in the middle of an unknown ocean. The depths of the sea hide sinister yet mystical secrets.
Why similar: Underwater 56.3% ★, Mystery 11.8%, Emotional 9.5%, Exploration 9%, Adventure 5.4%
Dive into a surreal deep sea dream. Survive by devouring and evolving, and encounter a cast of strange, mysterious companions. Explore, upgrade, and uncover the "truth" hidden beneath the beautiful waves. This is more than an adventure—it is a dimension-breaking dive to the deep.
Why similar: Underwater 56.8% ★, Exploration 8.6%, Story Rich 7.3%, Adventure 5.6%, Surreal 4.6%
Some secrets were meant to be drowned. SCP: Submerged is a linear psychological horror game following Dr. Bree as the struggle to survive takes a heavy toll. Leagues beneath the North Sea, who can you really trust when everyone is gasping for the same air?
Why similar: Underwater 33.1% ★, Interactive Fiction 15.9%, Exploration 10.3%, Female Protagonist 10.1%, Multiple Endings 8.7%
The August Before: Chapter One is the first chapter in a meditative narrative 3D puzzle about cleaning up, sorting out and packing up your life before moving on. Clean up and don’t forget your old belongings on your way to the new life!
Why similar: Cozy 37.5%, Emotional 16.8%, Female Protagonist 10.4%, Puzzle 8.7%, Story Rich 7.5%
A creepy-cozy 3D adventure game about rebuilding a haunted ghost town, meeting weird creatures, and listening to ridiculous music!
Why similar: Cozy 28.2%, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Exploration 11.3%, Mystery 10.4%, Story Rich 9.5%
A boy wakes up in the spirit world not knowing how he got there. He needs to find a way home but is caught up working for the owner of the bath house. Forced to work, he must find a way to escape the bath house, and find his way back home before the spirit feast festival arrives
Why similar: Cozy 32.9%, Emotional 18.1%, Mystery 11.3%, Story Rich 9%, Exploration 8.9%
A first-person interactive story inspired by real-world anxieties, The Assembly is a long-form game designed for VR. Explore a morally ambiguous organization as two individuals and face tough decisions from contrasting perspectives, that culminate in one of multiple thrilling conclusions.
Why similar: VR 28.3%, Interactive Fiction 10.6%, Mystery 9.3%, Story Rich 8.6%, Multiple Endings 7.9%
A cute 2D underwater puzzle adventure based on Touhou Project.
Why similar: Underwater 61.1% ★, Exploration 9.8%, Female Protagonist 9.5%, Puzzle 7.9%, Multiple Endings 5.8%
PUZZLE // PUNK // ESCAPE // TOUR // After a grueling tour that has left them drained and flat broke, a struggling post-punk band returns home. The group is already on the brink of collapse when a supernatural event dubbed “the Feedback” plunges them all into a twisted alternate reality.
Why similar: VR 22%, Mystery 13.4%, Surreal 11.1%, Story Rich 10.3%, Puzzle 7.9%
Wonders of the Deep is a third-person underwater exploration adventure with puzzles, marine wildlife, and diving mechanics in a mysterious world.
Why similar: Underwater 50.3% ★, Exploration 10.6%, Mystery 8.5%, Puzzle 8.5%, Adventure 7.8%
Dive into Mermaid's Paradoxical Tale, a 3D exploration puzzle game. Traverse sun-kissed islands and eerie underwater caves, solve intriguing puzzles, and uncover the mystery of the dark creatures that lurk in the deep caves menacing the peaceful aquatic realm.
Why similar: Underwater 64.7% ★, Female Protagonist 11.3%, Exploration 8%, Puzzle 5.7%, Adventure 4.6%
In the game, players will move through each level to find the stone gate and finally obtain the treasure map. The humanoid guards will patrol outside the treasure map for a long time, pay attention to avoiding and obtain the treasure.
Why similar: Underwater 60.6% ★, VR 29.6%, First-Person 8.1%, Singleplayer 1.6%
May Campbell moved to the island of Cassiopeia years ago to live with her grandfather. Now, she tries to survive day by day in a rotting world. Solve puzzles, uncover truths, and help May see tomorrow's daylight in this strange narrative-driven exploration/puzzle game.
Why similar: Emotional 20.6%, Multiple Endings 13.4%, Story Rich 11.8%, Exploration 10.6%, Female Protagonist 9.7%
Broken Shell is a short, hand-drawn puzzle adventure about two hermit crabs searching for a place to call home. Explore a vibrant underwater world, solve gentle puzzles, and experience a heartfelt story told entirely without words.
Why similar: Underwater 26.7% ★, Cozy 22.9%, Emotional 11.5%, Story Rich 9.4%, Puzzle 7.6%
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 53.5% ★, VR 15.4%, Mystery 10.9%, First-Person 6%, Atmospheric 5.9%
Explore the mystical Sanctuary of the Old Well and reconnect with your childhood friends while solving environmental puzzles. Meet quirky animals, unravel forgotten tales and immerse yourself in an interactive soundscape as you piece together your place in the world.
Why similar: Cozy 28.4%, Emotional 14.9%, Story Rich 10%, Mystery 10%, Exploration 9.2%
Beyond Blue is a single-player narrative adventure that takes you deep into our planet’s beating blue heart. Explore the awesome wonder and unbounded mystery that exists within the world’s ocean.
Why similar: Underwater 74.4% ★, Exploration 10.1%, Adventure 4.5%, Story Rich 4.4%, Female Protagonist 3.9%
ChangelingVR is a virtual reality first-person interactive mystery. Enter the thoughts of each one you touch: A different memory, a different world, a different story.
Why similar: VR 21.7%, Interactive Fiction 14%, Surreal 12.3%, Mystery 11.9%, Story Rich 10.5%
An atmospheric casual puzzle game where players navigate a strange cryptic world that blurs the line between dream and reality. Using inspection and memory, uncover hidden anomalies between mirrored worlds.
Why similar: Underwater 42.8% ★, Surreal 11%, Mystery 9.1%, Exploration 8.7%, Puzzle 7.8%
Lose yourself in a dreamlike journey through memory, time, and friendship. Step into the story of Arina and Frendt as you guide them across surreal islands built from cherished childhood moments. With time in your hands and wonder at your feet, explore an evocative world reimagined for VR.
Why similar: VR 21.2%, Emotional 15.8%, Time Travel 11.7% ★, Story Rich 11.6%, Puzzle 8.2%
Rewound is a first-person VR narrative exploration game where players experience the world through the eyes of a black cat, using object interaction and time-rewinding mechanics to explore the fading memories of a novelist living with Alzheimer’s disease.
Why similar: VR 27.9%, Interactive Fiction 16.5%, Emotional 14.4%, Story Rich 10.7%, Exploration 6.9%
This is a moving puzzle adventure story about a teenage girl, Mia, who witnessed the tragic fall of her homeland and the explosion of the Sun. A heavy burden fell on her fragile shoulders - she must restore light to the land and peace in her heart. Will she succeed?
Why similar: Emotional 16.6%, VR 15.7%, Mystery 13.7%, Story Rich 9%, Female Protagonist 8.5%
Virtual Arctic Expedition is a virtual reality experience involving up to 8 people simultaneously (in a same Local Area Network). The users are immersed together in the same virtual environment. They find themselves in the Arctic seabed where everyone embodies a scuba diver.
Why similar: Underwater 57% ★, VR 25.8%, Exploration 10.3%, Adventure 6.9%
A relaxing puzzle escape game! Make your way through a variety of hand-crafted 3D dioramas, look for useful objects, find hidden clues and solve fun puzzles! Unravel this mysterious adventure about chaos, order and the surreal.
Why similar: Cozy 28.4%, Time Travel 18.7% ★, Mystery 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10%, Puzzle 7.9%
A witch who lost everything, and an old cat who promised to protect her. Mia & Mio is a hand-drawn visual novel about witchcraft and finding hope in dark times.
Why similar: Cozy 33.2%, Emotional 12.2%, Story Rich 10.5%, Female Protagonist 10.3%, Exploration 9%
Deep Beyond Is a first-person interactive thriller about a sea explorer and the mystery behind her father’s disappearance.
Why similar: Underwater 28.4% ★, Emotional 13.3%, Story Rich 9.3%, Mystery 7.9%, Exploration 7.8%
The August Before is a meditative narrative 3D puzzle about cleaning up, sorting out and packing up your life before moving on. Clean up and don’t forget your old belongings on your way to the new life!
Why similar: Cozy 27.8%, Emotional 18%, Female Protagonist 10.2%, Story Rich 8.6%, Puzzle 8.1%
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
Why similar: VR 23.1%, Exploration 16.1%, Puzzle 15%, Story Rich 9.5%, Adventure 8.3%
Guide Guinevere on a quest to save the kingdom from darkness. Find mysterious objects in a living labyrinth board to solve unique puzzles and defeat the evil Mordred, all from the comfort of your grandmother’s attic.
Why similar: VR 30.4%, Cozy 13.2%, Female Protagonist 11.2%, Exploration 10.8%, Story Rich 10%
A Bonnie Odyssey is a retrofuturist puzzle mystery where you’ll explore an enigmatic abandoned island. This open world sci-fi adventure in the Scottish wilds tells the tale of a father and daughter separated by time, unravel the secrets of your past, and meet odd little friends along the way.
Why similar: Cozy 23.4%, Emotional 16.7%, Mystery 11.3%, Female Protagonist 8.8%, Puzzle 8.5%
We Stay Behind is a single-player third-person mystery between dreams and reality. A comet is on course to destroy a small town but its inhabitants refuse to leave. Interview the people of Laburnum Creek, explore a beautiful national park and unravel the secrets of this picturesque town.
Why similar: Emotional 15.8%, Mystery 12.8%, Interactive Fiction 12.7%, Surreal 9.9%, Story Rich 9.3%
Explore a mysterious tropical island resort. Collect items and solve puzzles to progress. Survive against dangerous enemies. Piece together the story of the hotel and uncover the dark secrets that it holds.
Why similar: Underwater 43% ★, Surreal 11.9%, Exploration 10.2%, Puzzle 8.6%, Mystery 7.2%
Stan, a professional diver in the North Sea, is struggling to overcome a life-changing loss during an extended mission underwater. Stuck in his self-imposed solitude, he starts to experience strange events and will have to make the most significant choice of his life...
Why similar: Underwater 62.3% ★, Story Rich 10.8%, Exploration 10.6%, Adventure 6.4%, Atmospheric 6.2%
As an apprentice wise-woman during the height of the witch trials, decrypt decades of magical research, explore the wilds for peculiar reagents, and experiment with arcane potions. All the while solving a myriad of mysteries whilst preparing your close-knit village for an encroaching church-crusade.
Why similar: Cozy 39.7%, Mystery 19.5%, Puzzle 9.7%, Exploration 7.4%, Story Rich 7.3%
Journey into the world of Tesseract, a mind-bending VR puzzle adventure through a labyrinth of mysterious realms. Navigate perplexing shifts in gravity, travel through portals bridging dimensions, and activate ancient mechanisms that transform the environment around you.
Why similar: VR 30.9%, Mystery 14.2%, Puzzle 12.3%, Exploration 12%, Adventure 9.9%
Ami's Pearl Dive is a quaint underwater adventure game developed for the Game Boy Color! Help Ami dive deeper to find her missing mermaid friend, collect pearls and meet interesting faces along the way!
Why similar: Underwater 62% ★, Exploration 12.6%, Female Protagonist 11.7%, Mystery 8%, Adventure 4.9%
Enter the world of Milly, a troubled tattoo artist who sets out to revive her dying neighborhood by collecting remaining stories through her art. Walk the streets of Nortown, witness the comes and goes of its people, and redefine the meaning behind each tattoo in this first person narrative game.
Why similar: Story Rich 17.5%, Cozy 14.5%, Exploration 13%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Emotional 11%
After witnessing a murder, 16-year-old skater Azar Warren seeks refuge with her estranged grandfather on his rural compound, only to suspect he may be more dangerous than her pursuers. Ashes blends graphic novel panels with interactive puzzles in a story of murder and unease.
Why similar: Interactive Fiction 19%, Story Rich 16.8%, Emotional 14.6%, Mystery 12.4%, Female Protagonist 12.2%
An enchanted library - once bustling with life - now swirls with dangerous magic that is weakening barriers between worlds, causing some strange things to happen. Travel to the worlds within the pages to help the eccentric yet lovable librarian restore the library to its former glory.
Why similar: Cozy 37.7%, Interactive Fiction 18.8%, Exploration 12.9%, Female Protagonist 11.8%, Emotional 8.3%
Explore a misty, rainy island region. Discover cozy havens and uncover lost memories to see the world in a new light. What will you make of your past?
Why similar: Cozy 31.6%, Emotional 15.3%, Mystery 10.3%, Interactive Fiction 9.6%, Story Rich 9.3%
Race for the Arctic is a love letter to unsung heroes.
Why similar: Emotional 30.3%, Story Rich 17.1%, Puzzle 14%, Exploration 12.3%, Adventure 12.1%
Challenger's Sleep is a deep sea Vertical Scroller that pulls you down from the bright Sunlight Zone and into the Sohm Abyssal Plain - and then deeper still. Featuring beautiful 2D art, simple controls, and a gripping mystery, we can learn what lays at the bottom... or stay sleeping below the waves.
Why similar: Underwater 59.1% ★, Emotional 10.8%, Mystery 9.3%, Story Rich 6.4%, Adventure 5.3%
Discover a once-thriving ocean, now tainted by enigmatic dark entities. Your quest: decipher the mystery and rekindle the ocean's radiant light.
Why similar: Underwater 42.7% ★, Emotional 18.7%, Story Rich 10.3%, Atmospheric 6.9%, Exploration 6.8%
Have you ever dreamed of being inside the paintings of great artists? Change them? Illusionary Manor is waiting for you. Explore a mysterious manor where every painting leads to a new world. Solve puzzles, uncover secrets, and discover the story behind the art.
Why similar: Puzzle 13.5%, Mystery 13.4%, Exploration 13%, Surreal 10.4%, Story Rich 9.4%
Take to the seas on your little boat and catch some fish in this 2D cozy fishing experience! Explore the drizzly coastline, upgrade your boat, and bring home the big one! How many fish can you catch?
Why similar: Underwater 43.5% ★, Cozy 32.9%, Stylized 6.4%, Puzzle 6.3%, Atmospheric 5.4%
Join the talented photography student Neera on a captivating journey through her memories. Haunted by recurring nightmares, her life spirals into chaos, questioning everything. Involuntarily, she returns to a place she once left behind: her childhood home.
Why similar: Emotional 21.5%, Interactive Fiction 19.5%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Story Rich 11.6%, Multiple Endings 9.1%
