Games Like SILT

SAMUDRA is an award-winning hand-illustrated deep sea journey.

Why similar: Underwater 31.3% ★, Side Scroller 10.5%, Puzzle Platformer 10.4%, Surreal 8.5%, Hand-drawn 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Shares a striking thematic similarity with SILT through its atmospheric, hand-drawn underwater setting and environmental storytelling.

The ground starts shaking, light bulbs are breaking - and something rather unusual is happening right behind the walls of your very room. Equipped with nothing but wit and courage, you slowly descend into a world inhabited by avian folk and seemingly deadly furniture monsters.

Why similar: Surreal 24.5%, Puzzle Platformer 20.8%, Hand-drawn 19.3%, Puzzle 14%, Atmospheric 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the intricate hand-drawn art style and clever puzzle mechanics found in SILT's surreal environments.

Uncertain of his sister's fate, a boy enters LIMBO

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 31.2%, Dark 15.3%, Puzzle 11.8%, Horror 8.6%, Atmospheric 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: Matches SILT's signature dark, minimalist aesthetic and silent, puzzle-platforming exploration in a hostile world.

Slice of Sea is a peaceful adventure and puzzle game. You play as Seaweed, a sea creature clearly out of their element. Explore desolate world of dust, all hand-drawn on paper in unique art style. Collect items, solve puzzles and lead Seaweed back home to the sea.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 28.9%, Puzzle 20.3%, Atmospheric 12.2%, Exploration 12%, Adventure 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similarly artistic, solitary puzzle-adventure experience with unique hand-crafted visuals and environmental exploration.

Anoxemia is a story-driven exploration game that puts you in control of the scientist Dr. Bailey and his operations drone, ATMA. Search the ocean floor as you discover and extract samples from the bowels of the underwater caves. Danger lurks in each passageway.

Why similar: Underwater 18.5% ★, Puzzle Platformer 14.7%, Side Scroller 12%, Dark 11.9%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Explores the terrifying and atmospheric depths of alien underwater environments with a heavy emphasis on puzzle survival.

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 53% ★, Cinematic 11.1%, Atmospheric 9.5%, Exploration 8.7%, Adventure 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Immerse yourself in a narrative-driven deep-sea adventure that mirrors SILT's haunting oceanic isolation.

Play as an Artificial Intelligence guiding a stranded xenobiologist through a beautiful and mysterious alien ocean. A non-violent sci-fi story, enter a world of wonder, fear and vulnerability, unraveling the history and ecology of an impossible planet. What will you discover together?

Why similar: Underwater 52% ★, Puzzle 13.3%, Atmospheric 11.9%, Exploration 9.6%, Adventure 7%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers a mysterious, sci-fi underwater exploration experience that shares SILT's focus on unraveling the secrets of the deep.

DARQ tells the story of Lloyd, a boy who finds himself in the middle of a lucid nightmare. Unable to wake up, Lloyd has to face his fears and decipher the meaning of the dream.

Why similar: Dark 14.5%, Puzzle Platformer 14.2%, Horror 12.4%, Side Scroller 12.2%, Surreal 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: Recreates the surreal, unsettling dream logic and atmospheric puzzle design that defines SILT's horror elements.

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 21.9% ★, Horror 16.3%, Dark 15.1%, Philosophical 12.7%, Puzzle 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Pulls players into a deeply unsettling underwater sci-fi horror setting focused on eerie isolation and dread.

Escape the depths of an otherworldly labyrinth in this cinematic puzzle platformer. Explore a hauntingly beautiful world, with three playable characters, in one dark, interconnected story.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20%, Dark 16.6%, Cinematic 14.2%, Horror 10.5%, Atmospheric 10%

Why You'll Like It: Features a dark, atmospheric, story-driven puzzle-platformer experience with a poignant and eerie mood.

Immerse yourself in the bizarre art style and the surreal world of Cat Museum, a 2D side-scrolling puzzle-adventure game. Solve the strange puzzles with your mischievous cat, and unveil the truth behind the mysterious museum.

Why similar: Surreal 18.9%, Psychedelic 16%, Hand-drawn 13.2%, Side Scroller 12.2%, Horror 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers the same brand of bizarre, surreal, hand-drawn horror and puzzle progression seen in SILT.

Where do you run to when your demons reside within you? Decarnation is a pixel art adventure/action puzzle game with a horrific story inspired by some of the most influential films and novels in the genre. Dive into a breathtaking thriller where nightmares and dreams intertwine…

Why similar: Surreal 27.6%, Psychedelic 13.3%, Puzzle 13.3%, Dark 12.7%, Horror 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Explores deeply surreal, psychological horror concepts with unique artistic styling.

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 51.2% ★, Horror 20.6%, Atmospheric 9.6%, Surreal 7.7%, Adventure 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines deep-sea underwater survival with psychological horror elements akin to SILT's darker undertones.

Shape your fears… Fear the shapes. Embark on a journey where you face your worst fears and are confronted with the emotional impact of your actions in this narrative adventure game with puzzles, stealth and action.

Why similar: Horror 32.7%, Puzzle 26.7%, Exploration 15.6%, Adventure 13.3%, Third Person 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Blends eerie atmosphere, puzzle solving, and dark storytelling in a hauntingly strange adventure.

Creepy quest with the atmosphere of the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Go through a dangerous adventure filled with puzzles and challenges! Perhaps it is you who will be able to solve all the secrets of forest and save the peaceful creatures?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 20.3%, Hand-drawn 15.2%, Dark 14.4%, Side Scroller 11.5%, Puzzle 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Mirrors SILT's dark fairy-tale vibe, eerie atmosphere, and puzzle-focused gameplay loop.

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: Underwater 31.4% ★, Horror 17%, Dark 16%, Cinematic 15.3%, Atmospheric 9%

Why You'll Like It: Immerses the player in an isolated ocean horror setting with intense atmospheric dread.

When humans get too lonely, they turn into monsters… Set sail across a beautiful and evolving world of darkness and light, and discover what it means to be human.

Why similar: Dark 45.4%, Atmospheric 23.4%, Adventure 22.2%, Horror 4.7%, Singleplayer 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Tells an emotional, metaphorical story set in a flooded, surreal world focusing on isolation.

Perception is reality. In this mind-bending first-person puzzler, you escape a surreal dream world through solving impossible puzzles using the ambiguity of depth and perspective.

Why similar: Surreal 24.7%, Puzzle 16.1%, Psychedelic 15.5%, Puzzle Platformer 13.2%, Cinematic 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers mind-bending perspective-based puzzle mechanics that appeal to fans of SILT's clever puzzle design.

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: Underwater 29.5% ★, Horror 15.9%, Surreal 11.2%, Puzzle 10.4%, Atmospheric 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Presents a short, atmospheric underwater puzzle horror experience echoing SILT's watery depths.

Linear underwater horror game about a search dive that quickly turns into fight for survival after an encounter with hellish creature.

Why similar: Underwater 41.7% ★, Dark 14.6%, Cinematic 14.5%, Horror 13.2%, Atmospheric 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on deep-sea psychological horror and linear dark exploration.

Midnight Swamp is a dark point-and-click adventure where you will dive into a world of eerie fairy tales. Play as a tourist who must find a way out of a mysterious swamp, where every corner hides a riddle.

Why similar: Surreal 17.8%, Hand-drawn 13.3%, Dark 13.3%, Horror 10.6%, Dark Fantasy 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Uses a dark, hand-drawn aesthetic to tell a surreal horror story.

Creepy Tale is a mysterious adventure rich in riddles and eerie atmosphere. An autumn morning promised a quiet fishing trip, but events took Martin to "some other place." Find the way home, uncover loads of secrets, and save everyone that you can.

Why similar: Hand-drawn 18.1%, Dark 14.5%, Side Scroller 14.2%, Puzzle 13.5%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Continues the grim, hand-drawn puzzle adventure style reminiscent of SILT's visual presentation.

Solitude Underwater is a short horror adventure game. Two treasure-hunting brothers are searching for sunken riches off the coast of South Africa, only to find themselves immersed in catastrophe after one of them gets trapped in a cage, deep inside shark-infested waters.

Why similar: Underwater 32.7% ★, Cinematic 20.1%, Horror 19.4%, Dark 10.3%, Adventure 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: Explores cinematic horror themes in a desolate underwater environment.

Dive into a world of despair in the world of Underwater. Take the role of an unknown inmate entering the a deep sea prison where mutants roam and barely any traces of human life remain. You will have to use all your ingenuity to escape and avoid becoming the meal of the hideous denizens.

Why similar: Dark 25.5%, Atmospheric 21.9%, Puzzle 19.6%, Adventure 13.4%, Exploration 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: Captures a similar story-driven, atmospheric survival horror vibe beneath the ocean waves.

Hell Dive is a first-person horror game where you are a Maritime Operative alone aboard a submarine. Sent on a mission to revive an abandoned deep-sea colony, you uncover dark secrets as terrifying and deadly horrors await in its depths

Why similar: Philosophical 18.6%, Cinematic 18.2%, Horror 13.1%, Interactive Fiction 12.2%, Dark 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends atmospheric horror with heavy psychological and dark lovecraftian undertones.

They Breathe is a short journey into the depths of a forest filled with water. As you swim deeper, it's up to you to figure out the rules of an insidious ecosystem where nothing is as it first seems, and where everyone is after the same precious resource – oxygen!

Why similar: Underwater 28.6% ★, Hand-drawn 19.5%, Dark 19%, Horror 7.4%, Atmospheric 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A short, dark indie game set underwater featuring surreal creature mechanics and a grim tone.

Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24%, Surreal 16.9%, Puzzle 15%, Horror 14%, Exploration 10.4%

Relive the nostalgia with OYASUMII, a horror and exploration game inspired by PSX and N64 classics. Enter liminal spaces and face surreal terrors in an adventure that challenges your skills and sanity. Are you ready to relive the golden age of video games with OYASUMII?

Why similar: Underwater 30.5% ★, Surreal 19.5%, Horror 12.4%, Psychedelic 9.7%, Puzzle 9%

Why You'll Like It: Navigates surreal, psychological horror concepts through an atmospheric exploration lens.

The Sirena Expedition is a short PSX-style horror-platformer in which you explore a mysterious underwater facility.

Why similar: Underwater 52.9% ★, Horror 18.1%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Adventure 5.7%, Exploration 5.7%

A brutally challenging physics-horror caving game. Using only your hands, drag yourself down a suffocating cave system where every hold pulls you further into the darkness. Equal parts rage-game, claustrophobic nightmare, and descent into a forgotten folktale...

Why similar: Philosophical 27.4%, Puzzle Platformer 15.8%, Dark 11.4%, Surreal 11.2%, Cinematic 10.2%

A surreal puzzle platformer that's as beautiful as it is challenging – discover two beings entwined by fate, a girl and her soulmate, left to travel through a hauntingly elegant world...

Why similar: Surreal 31.3%, Puzzle Platformer 15.5%, Puzzle 13.6%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Horror 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: Explores surreal, atmospheric mystery puzzles within a dark indie framework.

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

Why similar: Underwater 43% ★, Dark 17.1%, Horror 13.7%, Exploration 8.4%, Atmospheric 7.4%

In the dark and mysterious world of Closure, only what you see exists. Manipulate lights to phase objects in and out of reality in this multiple-award-winning puzzle game. Play as a strange spider-like demon who explores the stories of three human characters through beautiful, eerie environments such as a decrepit factory, a murky...

Why similar: Puzzle 26.5%, Surreal 21.6%, Puzzle Platformer 19.9%, Dark 11.1%, Horror 6.6%

Hypnosis, memories, delusions and a disturbing secret revolve around silence of mind.

Why similar: Horror 21.8%, Dark 19.9%, Puzzle 18.3%, Adventure 14.3%, Atmospheric 13.4%

A dark tale of survival and conscience, blending platforming, puzzles, and haunting beauty. Journey through surreal lands where every choice shapes the fate of a world on the edge of ruin will you restore the light or embrace the darkness?

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 17.2%, Dark 14.1%, Horror 12.8%, Side Scroller 12.7%, Dark Fantasy 11%

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: Underwater 42.7% ★, Surreal 12.9%, Side Scroller 11.8%, Dark 10.6%, Exploration 7.2%

Enter a world that’s utterly surreal and eerily familiar. Escape the mundanity of your existence in an experience that will stay with you. Mosaic is a narrative-driven modern adventure game with a story that lasts about 2-3 hours.

Why similar: Adventure 27.7%, Cinematic 25.3%, Indie 16.8%, Dark 16.5%, Atmospheric 13.8%

Unravel the dark secrets hidden throughout this stirring puzzle platformer about a tormented nobleman confronting the traumas of his past. Use an innovative mirror mechanic to solve challenging puzzle rooms and defeat towering bosses as you strive to piece together the ugly truth.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 21.4%, Psychedelic 17.5%, Hand-drawn 15.8%, Horror 13.9%, Puzzle 12.6%

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: Underwater 29.1% ★, Surreal 17.1%, Horror 16.2%, Dark 16.1%, Atmospheric 10.3%

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: Underwater 53% ★, Horror 16.4%, Puzzle 13%, Exploration 8.5%, Atmospheric 6.4%

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

Why similar: Underwater 43.4% ★, Horror 18.7%, Atmospheric 10.4%, Dark 9.1%, Surreal 6.7%

Walking simulator. Explore, admire and listen. Uncanny. Relaxing. Unnerving. Eerie. Immersive. No monsters chasing you or jumping at your screen, but can feel oppressive at times by invoking fears of getting lost, the dark, tight spaces and liminal space architecture. Inspired by backrooms.

Why similar: Underwater 28.7% ★, Surreal 27.7%, Atmospheric 14.7%, Dark 11.4%, Exploration 9.2%

A challenging puzzle platformer inspired by games like Limbo and Badland.

Why similar: Surreal 17.5%, Side Scroller 14.8%, Puzzle Platformer 14%, Dark 13.1%, Puzzle 8.4%

When everything seems hopeless a child is awakened by the whispers of the last leaf, drawn into an imaginary world. Unleaving invites the player into a narrative-driven puzzle platformer where each challenge unfolds within a hand-painted landscape, exploring perception and meaning

Why similar: Surreal 16.3%, Philosophical 12.8%, Hand-drawn 12.2%, Dark 11.4%, Cinematic 10.4%

Pilot the MOLE, a monstrous post-war drilling machine built to descend deep below the Slavic soil. Fix failing systems, follow voices of the dead, and pray you can survive whatever is sharing your coffin. Will the vessel or your mind break first?

Why similar: Horror 15.6%, Psychedelic 15%, Surreal 13.9%, Philosophical 12.8%, Dark 11.3%

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: Underwater 36.5% ★, Horror 19.7%, Dark Fantasy 10.4%, Puzzle 9.7%, Exploration 9.6%

There's Nothing Down There is a short undersea horror exploration game. Descend into a sinkhole at the bottom of the ocean and discover the remains of a lost, yet not dead, civilization.

Why similar: Underwater 33.7% ★, Horror 30.1%, Exploration 13.1%, Adventure 10%, Atmospheric 7.4%

Boat, climb, interact and explore in the beautiful ruins of a sunken world.

Why similar: Exploration 30%, Atmospheric 29.6%, Puzzle Platformer 16.3%, Adventure 13.8%, Third Person 7.9%

You are the lifeline supporting an expedition into the unknown. Keep both yourself and your squad alive by interpreting instrument readings, explore the facilities, and uncover something ancient and eager to be born.

Why similar: Horror 29%, Puzzle 24.3%, Atmospheric 18.3%, Exploration 15.2%, Adventure 10.3%

A Void Hope takes you on an atmospheric narrative adventure to find a cure for a collapsed city. Follow the story of a tormented couple as they try to decipher reality from nightmares and evade the shadowy threats lurking in the dark.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 24%, Atmospheric 19.8%, Dark 18.2%, Puzzle 11.5%, Adventure 10.6%

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 31.7% ★, Surreal 23.1%, Horror 12.8%, Exploration 11.9%, Atmospheric 7.4%

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 41% ★, Side Scroller 13.2%, Dark 13.1%, Horror 12.6%, Exploration 7.1%

A claustrophobic first-person horror game about crawling through a dark, winding cave system in search of three missing divers.

Why similar: Horror 33.8%, Atmospheric 20.2%, Dark 19.2%, Exploration 14.7%, Adventure 7.3%

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: Underwater 36.7% ★, Surreal 16.8%, Dark 16.4%, Horror 13.4%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Explore, Listen and Observe. LIMINAL WATERS is a liminal space exploration game. Discover a large facility with diverse rooms and themes and be enchanted by the radiant beauty of Unreal Engine 5.6. Relaxation, anxiety, confusion or familiarity? The mysterious Poolrooms are waiting for you.

Why similar: Surreal 32.7%, Horror 20.6%, Dark 18.3%, Atmospheric 11.6%, Adventure 8.5%

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: Underwater 55.9% ★, Horror 12.6%, Exploration 11%, Atmospheric 6.6%, Dark 6.3%

Longing for light, a sunless world begins devouring itself. Every step shifts the landscape beneath you as you search for what remains of her.

Why similar: Surreal 23.6%, Psychedelic 19.7%, Horror 13%, Dark 12.7%, Puzzle 10.7%

Get ready for a thrilling underwater adventure with classic point-and-click gameplay. Explore with three characters simultaneously. Featuring atmospheric isometric graphics, rendered video, and a soundtrack by Mark Morgan, BONE TOTEM takes you on a journey to hidden places deep below the waves...

Why similar: Cinematic 24.5%, Horror 22.6%, Puzzle 19%, Atmospheric 12.7%, Exploration 10.9%