Games Like Saltwater Bodies

Swim deeper and deeper into this underwater horror game. Explore open worlds, save your friends, escape monstrous creatures....What are you waiting for? the depths are beckoning you to go deeper!

Why similar: Underwater 34.2% ★, Lovecraftian 18.8%, Nonlinear 10.6%, Horror 6.9%, Psychological Horror 6.1%

Underwater, you're alone. Or almost alone. You're a diver doing routine work: cleaning the seabed, collecting waste, fixing pipes. But deep down there's always something wrong. Explore, repair, survive — and try not to lose your mind.

Why similar: Underwater 30.4% ★, Lovecraftian 21.9%, 6DOF 13.6% ★, Horror 8.1%, Dark 7.8%

A Place, Forbidden is a first-person, lo-fi horror-puzzle game set in the Library of Ouroboros, a seemingly innocuous library that, rumor has it, contains knowledge not meant for the eyes of mortal man. We hope you enjoy your visit.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.5%, Transhumanism 23.6% ★, Horror 13.1%, Dark 10.1%, Psychological Horror 8.6%

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 47.4% ★, Lovecraftian 27%, Psychological Horror 6.4%, Exploration 4.9%, Adventure 4.4%

Explore and survive a twisted Hundred Acre Wood while being hunted by an old childhood friend, Winnie-the-Pooh. Rescue Christopher Robin with the help of Eldritch Beasts that were once familiar faces. Discover what took place and has changed a once beautiful land into something dark and dangerous.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 32%, Nonlinear 20.5%, Dark 12.2%, Horror 11.1%, Survival Horror 7%

Open Waters is a first-person ocean survival horror game. Stranded in a small boat, you must navigate treacherous waters, evade creatures of the deep, and find your way back to safety before the ocean drags you into its depths.

Why similar: Underwater 42.3% ★, Lovecraftian 26.3%, Horror 12.4%, Psychological Horror 5.5%, Survival Horror 4.4%

Descend down the arctic depths in Crathos Deep, a cosmic horror narrative adventure. Explore the vast abyss with your submarine and utilize your expeditionary drone to reach the dark corners of the ocean. Investigate a lost research institute to unravel the unsettling mystery of its downfall.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.8%, Underwater 26.5% ★, Horror 13.6%, Dark 11.4%, Psychological Horror 7.1%

Descend from the fragile safety of your diving bell into a dark shipwreck zone, search for sunken gold, survive escalating anomalies, and uncover what keeps pulling you back.

Why similar: Underwater 49.3% ★, Horror 15.9%, Psychological Horror 15.1%, Dark 8.4%, Exploration 5.2%

A lovecraftian roguelike. Dive into procedurally generated undersea caves. Collect gold, upgrade your equipment, and Feed the Deep.

Why similar: Underwater 33% ★, Lovecraftian 29%, Dark 9.9%, Horror 8.3%, Psychological Horror 8%

The light is your only lifeline. Descend into a crushing, thalassophobic abyss where every photograph could be your last. Investigate unpredictable deep-sea horrors and explore the vast, dark unknown - all while being 'assisted' by a darkly sarcastic AI.

Why similar: Underwater 30.8% ★, Lovecraftian 19.4%, Nonlinear 11.6%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Horror 8.5%

Explore, Fish and discover the mysteries hidden within Lake Facade. A short narrative puzzle/adventure game with multiple endings and secrets to find.

Why similar: Underwater 29.3% ★, Lovecraftian 25.3%, Psychological Horror 9.5%, Horror 9.3%, Choices Matter 6%

A short underwater horror game where you pilot a one-person submarine into a lightless trench, tracking a signal that has started answering back.

Why similar: Underwater 43.9% ★, Horror 13.9%, Psychological Horror 13.3%, Lovecraftian 12.2%, First-Person 4.7%

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 36.1% ★, Lovecraftian 25.7%, Horror 8.8%, Dark 8.7%, Psychological Horror 8.6%

Stranded alone in an unfamiliar place, with only a lugubrious coffin at your side. Dive deep into this melancholic and macabre tale of death, grief and despair as you try to piece together the intricate lore while facing entities far beyond human comprehension. A love letter to games of yore.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.2%, Nonlinear 20.2%, Psychological Horror 10.7%, Horror 8.3%, Dark 8.2%

COLD ABYSS is a relaxing and atmospheric exploration game where you repair internet cables on the bottom of the ocean. There are no enemies or other forms of danger down there. Just you.

Why similar: Underwater 37.2% ★, Lovecraftian 21.6%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Horror 9.1%, Dark 8%

Aqua Catholicism; Explore Man's Original Sin Under The Sea

Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.2%, Transhumanism 24% ★, Underwater 22.8% ★, Horror 12.1%, Adventure 4.5%

You take on the role of a diver who has been kidnapped by an organization that is using you to find some ancient artifacts. They have tried to obtain these artifacts in the same way but have failed, and they will not rest until they have them and place them on a statue.

Why similar: Underwater 46.8% ★, Psychological Horror 11.9%, Horror 11.2%, Exploration 7%, First-Person 6.1%

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: Lovecraftian 27.2%, Underwater 24.6% ★, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 11%, Dark 10.4%

Capture footage in the abyssal depths of the ocean. The sub offers safety. The open water does not.

Why similar: Underwater 47.6% ★, Horror 13.8%, Psychological Horror 13%, Dark 11.3%, Exploration 4.6%

You are an employee of U.D.E. Your mission is to explore the ocean depths, investigate ancient artifacts, and... save your own skin. Survive, uncover the corporation's secrets, and find out what lies hidden in the depths.

Why similar: Underwater 37.3% ★, Lovecraftian 23.7%, Horror 10.2%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Stylized 5%

The mother vessel is adrift in space, out of fuel and doomed. Your mission is the colony’s only hope for survival. Will you be able to navigate the claustrophobic canyons when your ship begins to fail?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 33.7%, Underwater 16.1% ★, Horror 14.3%, Psychological Horror 8.3%, Dark 8.1%

GANGSTALK is a psychological horror game from the POV of your stalkers.

Why similar: Transhumanism 29% ★, Nonlinear 21.4%, Lovecraftian 17.4%, Psychological Horror 10.8%, Horror 8.7%

1975. Disaster strikes the Beira D oil rig off the coast of Scotland. Navigate the collapsing rig to save your crew from an otherworldly horror on the edge of all logic and reality in this 3x BAFTA Games Award-winning narrative horror experience.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.7%, Underwater 26.8% ★, Psychological Horror 12%, Horror 11.6%, Dark 10.4%

TRYPAN - A exploration based survival horror FPS. Return to Stagmon, the city where your father disappeared. Fight intelligent enemies. Improvise and use limited resources to defeat them.

Why similar: Transhumanism 34.5% ★, Lovecraftian 25.1%, Horror 12.6%, Survival Horror 7.7%, Exploration 5.3%

Very short on-rails collector game where you're stuck in the guts of a cosmic sea creature, polluted by waste.

Why similar: Underwater 65.5% ★, Horror 14.9%, Stylized 10.8%, First-Person 4.5%, Multiple Endings 2%

Burn Depth is an tense, underwater, horror exploration game. Find a path through a dangerous and unexplored area of the ocean filled with menacing creatures. Manage your vessel's resources, survive the dive, and uncover the mysteries beneath the sea floor.

Why similar: Underwater 37.5% ★, Lovecraftian 21.4%, Horror 9.4%, Psychological Horror 8.9%, Choices Matter 5.8%

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: Lovecraftian 25.3%, Underwater 21.2% ★, Horror 12.4%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Dark 11.1%

Dive into the waters of Scyla, a third-person 3D exploration adventure inspired by Lovecraft's universe. Discover the mysteries hidden into the depths as you pilot a submarine through a strange cave system. Run away from a criature that stalks you.

Why similar: Underwater 39.4% ★, Lovecraftian 25.3%, Nonlinear 14.8%, Exploration 5.1%, Survival Horror 4.4%

A 1-4 player co-op deep-sea horror game where crews dismantle wrecks inside a paranormal oceanic phenomenon. Complete research operations, survive hostile entities, and uncover the source in the depths.

Why similar: Underwater 49.8% ★, 6DOF 20.1% ★, Horror 11.5%, Psychological Horror 7%, Exploration 4.5%

This Game is Casual 3D Horror Game.

Why similar: Underwater 34.7% ★, Psychological Horror 20.5%, Horror 16.5%, Survival Horror 10.2%, First-Person 6.3%

Deep Copy is a top down point-and-click literary adventure set in a hand-painted science fiction world. Awakened with no memory, you must solve puzzles and navigate a branching story to piece together the dense, interconnected mystery at the heart of the lab.

Why similar: Transhumanism 30.8% ★, Nonlinear 22.5%, Horror 12.3%, Psychological Horror 9.2%, Choices Matter 9.2%

Submechanic is a short horror game where you take an after-hours maintenance job at Captain Frill's Bar and Grill. You're required to climb down into the tanks in order to perform various repairs.

Why similar: Underwater 61.6% ★, Horror 18.5%, Stylized 7.3%, First-Person 7.2%, Adventure 2.9%

Your sight is limited in this first-person psychological horror game in the deep abyss. Use sound to your advantage, while you still have your mind in this experience of pure mind-numbing terror. Try to survive long enough to discover the terrible secrets... if you can...

Why similar: Underwater 32.5% ★, Lovecraftian 24.6%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 10.6%, Survival Horror 6.7%

THE SHORE is a first person story driven game with an atmospheric environment and narrations, You will encounter mysterious creatures and unravel the secrets behind them. Strong elements of horror, struggle to survive an unknown world that will make you question your own sanity.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 37.4%, Underwater 28% ★, Horror 12%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Exploration 5.2%

A first-person psychological horror game where you play as a female protagonist, traversing creepy & atmospheric liminal spaces, solving mind-bending puzzles and ever shifting maze environments to uncover the truth about who you are and how you came to be here

Why similar: Lovecraftian 21.5%, Horror 20.8%, Psychological Horror 19.7%, Dark 12.8%, First-Person 8.1%

In Aphotic Descent, you play as a diver whose submarine crashed at the bottom of the ocean. With no other option for survival, you must make your way to a nearby underwater research facility facing terrifying creatures, all while descending deeper and deeper...

Why similar: Underwater 40.3% ★, Transhumanism 32.8% ★, Horror 9.3%, Survival Horror 6.1%, Exploration 4.3%

A psychological horror game inspired by SCP-1128. As a young woman trapped in a surreal loop, explore your bathroom and submerge yourself in the bathtub to enter a terrifying ocean dimension inhabited by a colossal entity lurking in the depths.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 39.3%, Horror 17%, Dark 14.8%, Exploration 7.2%, Psychological Horror 6.1%

A submarine touring the Titanic has gone missing. As part of the coast guard, you have been called in to locate and rescue the crew before their oxygen runs out.

Why similar: Underwater 41.4% ★, Lovecraftian 18.7%, Psychological Horror 9.7%, Horror 9.3%, Exploration 5.4%

Escape a confusing cave system without being eaten in this short, underwater horror game.

Why similar: Underwater 64.1% ★, Horror 14.6%, Survival Horror 8.3%, First-Person 4.5%, 3D 4.3%

Dive into a sunken ocean liner lost in the deep sea. In this narrative-driven 3D survival horror puzzle game, explore a claustrophobic environment while managing limited air resources, solving puzzles, evading unknown horrors, and uncovering the truth behind a distortion of time and space.

Why similar: Underwater 48.3% ★, Psychological Horror 17.7%, Horror 11.7%, Survival Horror 9%, Exploration 4.4%

You were surgically altered into a mermaid and are now trapped within an abandoned aquarium. Adapt to your new body, survive the horrors lurking within and find a way to escape.

Why similar: Underwater 58.4% ★, Horror 19%, Psychological Horror 17.9%, 3D 4.4%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Effigy : The Descent is a first-person survival-horror game in which you will face statues, with your lantern as your only tool to stop them. Gather all artefacts from the cave and freedom will be yours !

Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.2%, Nonlinear 22.5%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Dark 9.7%, Horror 9.2%

Explore the deepest depths of an under ground ocean as you survey the environment by recording audio and taking pictures. Collect fuel found in the caves of these depths. Be careful though, Some thing lurks in these waters.

Why similar: Underwater 52.7% ★, Psychological Horror 18.3%, Horror 14.8%, Survival Horror 7.8%, Adventure 4.5%

Saturation is a short horror game where you work as a saturation diver and deep sea welder. After six months at the bottom of the ocean, your shift is coming to an end, but so are your nerves...

Why similar: Underwater 58.8% ★, Horror 13.6%, Psychological Horror 7.4%, First-Person 6.1%, Exploration 5.6%

Experimental, None Linear, Cosmic Horror Game.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 29%, Nonlinear 22.7%, Psychological Horror 11.7%, Horror 8.6%, Choices Matter 8%

Full Fathom is an oceanic survival horror game. Pilot a deteriorating submarine as it drifts through grim waters, keeping it maintained as it is your only lifeline in the hostile, merciless ocean.

Why similar: Underwater 35.9% ★, Nonlinear 16.5%, Lovecraftian 14.5%, Psychological Horror 9.1%, Horror 8.2%

A Horror Adventure Game with Multiple Endings

Why similar: Nonlinear 31.9%, Horror 20.2%, Psychological Horror 18.9%, Dark 12%, 3D 6.9%

When Marisol starts a new life as a telecom technician, she finds herself out of her depth in a mutating city. Connect with strangers, confront grotesque creatures, and unravel a conspiracy at the heart of the metamorphosis.

Why similar: Transhumanism 35.8% ★, Nonlinear 13%, Horror 8.6%, Psychological Horror 8.2%, Choices Matter 6.9%

Experience backrooms like never before. Dreamcore is the ultimate psychological exploration game, set in the largest liminal world ever made. No guides, no path—only intuition. Will you keep your bearings in a world designed to make you lose them?

Why similar: Underwater 33.4% ★, Nonlinear 21.9%, Psychological Horror 11.4%, Horror 9.6%, Dark 8.1%

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 51.5% ★, Horror 16.4%, Psychological Horror 13.7%, Survival Horror 7.9%, First-Person 6.3%

Walking and Swimming Simulator. No monsters. Explore liminal spaces where each level reflects different aspects of your mind. Savor the atmosphere and let your feelings guide you. Relax or feel anxious as you dive underwater. Overcome your fears in uncanny, unnerving, and eerie spaces.

Why similar: Underwater 34.8% ★, Nonlinear 20.2%, Psychological Horror 11.8%, Horror 9.5%, Dark 6.3%

Walking simulator. Explore cozy liminal spaces that feel unsettlingly familiar and spark your imagination, like a dream you’ve been in before.

Why similar: Underwater 29.4% ★, Nonlinear 22.2%, Psychological Horror 15.3%, Horror 9.2%, Exploration 7.7%

Take the role of Jonas Schmidt, a private investigator trapped in a deranged professor's house. Uncover the grim secrets of human experiments and grotesque machinery, all while solving puzzles and avoiding monstrous creations. Can you escape before you become the next test subject?

Why similar: Transhumanism 50.9% ★, Dark 13%, Psychological Horror 12.4%, Horror 11.9%, First-Person 5.4%

Can you hold your breath when panic sets in? Experience the terror of deep-sea cave diving. Scavenge resources and fight to survive as you navigate procedurally generated underwater caves stalked by an apex predator!

Why similar: Underwater 45.1% ★, Psychological Horror 13.6%, Horror 11.5%, Dark 10.6%, Survival Horror 8%

Gospel Of Steel is a first-person deep-sea welding horror game set in the shadow of a dying, bio-mechanical god. While employed by a cult, the player explores the depths alone, repairing pipelines and fending off the hostile ecosystem.

Why similar: Underwater 72.8% ★, Horror 14.4%, First-Person 6%, 3D 4.1%, Adventure 2.6%

When a grocery list becomes a struggle to survive against cosmic horrors, will you make it through the door? Stay alive, solve the mystery and make your offerings - or end up on a missing person poster in this first-person, non-linear nightmare. But you'd better hurry, the store's closing soon.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.6%, Nonlinear 18.9%, Horror 10.8%, Psychological Horror 9.9%, Survival Horror 8.8%

A giant cathedral of flesh has appeared in the middle of the ocean on a dying world. A small group of scientists are secretly investigating it when a mysterious woman appears, facing an impossible task.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.5%, Nonlinear 23.5%, Psychological Horror 13.5%, Choices Matter 8%, Horror 7.6%

In the Backrooms: Exit from Supermarket, you find yourself trapped in a labyrinth of endless, flickering aisles. Unearth dark secrets behind every shelf while evading lurking apparitions and supernatural terrors. Can you survive the haunted corridors and escape before the nightmare consumes?

Why similar: Lovecraftian 32.4%, Dark 15.2%, Psychological Horror 15.2%, Horror 14.3%, Survival Horror 8.3%

Abyss of Neptune is a survival horror game set in the deep seas of the Bermuda Triangle. You are sent to investigate a mysterious underwater signal, but there is more to it than meets the eye. Do you have what it takes to survive the abyss?

Why similar: Underwater 46.8% ★, Nonlinear 20.9%, Horror 12.3%, Survival Horror 8.6%, First-Person 4.1%