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Games Like Sunken Engine

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Singleplayer, Atmospheric, First-Person, Simulation.

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Sunken Engine Lovecraftian Ship Repair Simulation. Restore your father’s old shipyard. Each arriving ship carries a dark mystery to be solved. Keep your customers satisfied while dealing with the strange and eerie happenings on the island.

Reviews: Very Positive — 83% — of 803 reviews
Released: 2025-10-16
Developer: Two Nomads Studio
Publisher: PlayWay S.A.
Genres: Adventure, Indie, Simulation, Early Access
Platforms: Windows
Median playtime: 2.7 hrs
Mean playtime: 4.8 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 71%

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    96% matchVery Positive91% of 1,499 reviews2025
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    Lovecraft meets Papers, Please. Play as a lighthouse keeper and guide ships safely into the harbor using your radio. Survive the presence of something impossible, and don’t let the shadows consume you!

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  2. #2 Ship Graveyard Simulator
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    Dev: Games Incubator
    Windows
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    Visit the largest ship graveyard in the world. A dozen kilometers of beach filled with wrecks. Hundreds of ships wrecked on the coast. Thousands of tons of steel. Choose the most valuable ship for you and start the adventure. Play as one of the workers during the most dangerous work in the world!

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    96% matchVery Positive84% of 275 reviews2026
    Dev: solarsuit.gamesPub: Polden Publishing
    Windows

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    95% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 56,479 reviews2023
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    Windows · Mac
    Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 11.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%

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    94% matchVery Positive86% of 13,056 reviews2025
    Dev: Channel37 Ltd
    Windows
    Median: 19.6 hrsMean: 36.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Explore a drowned Earth, restore lost systems, and raise the last human seeds in this first-person survival-crafting adventure. Build, scavenge, defend, and launch humanity back to the stars.

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    94% matchMostly Positive74% of 939 reviews2025
    Dev: Darts Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    Lovecraftian Doctor Simulator. Diagnose patients by analyzing unsettling symptoms and treat them using your Book of Medicine. Make moral choices — decide who to save or kill, discover whom to trust, and unlock multiple endings! Can you endure 30 days of perilous decisions?

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    93% matchVery Positive87% of 277 reviews2026
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    Windows

    Take a night shift job in a place that runs on habit, not purpose. Restock shelves, take deliveries, clean the mess, and try to make it till morning. Not everything feels right and you’re never quite alone. Something waits in the dark.

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    92% matchVery Positive89% of 309 reviews2026
    Dev: FromSouthGames
    Windows

    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.

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  9. #9 Tavern Manager Simulator 🍻
    91% matchVery Positive92% of 4,445 reviews2024
    Dev: One More Time
    Windows
    Median: 6.6 hrsMean: 12.5 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Restore your fantasy tavern to its full glory. Repair, improve and expand the establishment. Cook delicious food and keep an eye on the mood of the visitors. Create a unique atmosphere for unforgettable adventures!

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  10. #10 Strange Antiquities
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 3,487 reviews2025
    Dev: Bad VikingPub: Iceberg Interactive
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 6.7 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, use your collection to aid the townsfolk with their unusual problems — and remember to pet your cat!

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  11. #11 Titanic Escape Simulator™
    90% matchMixed64% of 265 reviews2026
    Dev: magicprostudio
    Windows

    Investigate a dark mystery aboard the RMS Titanic before the final night becomes a fight for survival. Explore, solve puzzles, uncover secrets, and make impossible choices as history’s most famous ship sinks beneath the Atlantic.

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  12. #12 Workshop Simulator
    91% matchMixed68% of 307 reviews2022
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    Windows

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  13. #13 Tank Mechanic Simulator
    89% matchVery Positive88% of 9,374 reviews2020
    Dev: DeGenerals S.A.Pub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Renovate & build II World War tanks. Experience highly detailed & realistic simulation game. Take tanks fully apart by using different tools. Transform them from rusty and ruined to fully working. Check them on the training ground, sell or put into your own museum.

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    Dev: FlatNine Games
    Windows · Linux

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  15. #15 SUNLESS SEA
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 10.8 hrs≥1hr: 79%

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    86% matchVery Positive95% of 74 reviews2024
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    Windows

    Care is an atmospheric first person horror game with puzzle elements, where your choices have consequences. Be observant with your surroundings and unravel the horrific secrets that hide within these walls.

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    Windows

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    84% matchVery Positive86% of 908 reviews2021
    Dev: Games Incubator
    Windows
    Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%

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    Windows

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    Windows
    Median: 1.4 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 57%

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    Windows
    Median: 42 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 42%

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    78% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 8,613 reviews2026
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    Windows · Mac
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    Dev: Omar Chapa Hernandez
    Windows

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  25. #25 Strange Horticulture
    79% matchVery Positive94% of 16,007 reviews2022
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    Windows · Mac
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    Dev: Dymchick1
    Windows

    This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.

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    80% matchMixed64% of 121 reviews2023
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    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%

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    82% matchMostly Negative22% of 208 reviews2022
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    Windows

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  29. #29 Ship Graveyard Simulator 2
    77% matchMostly Positive77% of 4,128 reviews2023
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    Windows
    Median: 13.1 hrsMean: 70.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%

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    77% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 35,035 reviews2018
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    Windows

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  32. #32 Kingdom of Wreck Business
    79% matchMostly Negative32% of 132 reviews2023
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    Windows

    The depths of the Atlantic hide more than 12,000 sunken ships out of which at least half haven’t been located yet. As a depth explorer you will earn money from extracting valuable cargo from wrecks, grow your company, buy exploration vessels and real estate.

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    78% matchMixed57% of 67 reviews2021
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    Windows

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  34. #34 Gunsmith Simulator
    74% matchVery Positive85% of 3,268 reviews2024
    Dev: GameHuntersPub: PlayWay S.A.
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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    74% matchVery Positive81% of 1,542 reviews2025
    Dev: Crazy Goat GamesPub: Crytivo
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 80%

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  36. #36 Watertight
    73% matchVery Positive88% of 199 reviews2025
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    Windows

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    72% matchMostly Positive80% of 59 reviews2026
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    Windows

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  38. #38 Mech Mechanic Simulator
    76% matchMixed61% of 698 reviews2021
    Dev: PolyslashPub: Valkyrie Initiative
    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 82%

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    73% matchVery Positive85% of 84 reviews2024
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    Windows

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    73% matchVery Positive85% of 123 reviews2024
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    75% matchMostly Positive72% of 72 reviews2019
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    75% matchVery Positive83% of 784 reviews2014
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    70% matchVery Positive99% of 67 reviews2025
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    72% matchVery Positive94% of 1,772 reviews2018
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    68% matchVery Positive91% of 558 reviews2025
    Dev: Chaystar Unlimited LLC
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    69% matchMostly Positive76% of 140 reviews2026
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    Why similar: Lovecraftian 42.9%, Mystery 18.1%, Story Rich 12.8%, Atmospheric 10%, Dark 9.9%

  56. #56 Pirate Cove Simulator
    68% matchMostly Positive78% of 62 reviews2025
    Dev: Kool2Play
    Windows

    Pirate Cove Simulator will have you run a shop and tavern on the Island of the Damned, to get rich and buy your way out of the pirate afterlife. Trade with restless undead pirates, run your own distillery and turn local plants into potent drinks, search for hidden treasures, or just go fishing.

    Why similar: Simulation 48.3%, Life Sim 37.2%, Singleplayer 7.9%, First-Person 6.7%

  57. #57 Following Seas
    67% matchMostly Positive77% of 160 reviews2025
    Dev: Whipstaff Games
    Windows

    Following Seas is a game about ships and the sea. Transport cargo, fish, and fight the weather in an unforgiving open world. Featuring elements of realistic ship management, you can use the stars to navigate, batten the hatches, and get lost beyond the edges of the map.

    Why similar: Naval 63.7%, Immersive Sim 14.5%, Simulation 10.5%, Atmospheric 4.9%, First-Person 2.6%

  58. #58 BROKEN LIFE
    66% matchVery Positive98% of 58 reviews2025
    Dev: IKKOSAMAPub: False Memory Dept.
    Windows

    BROKEN LIFE is an atmospheric, fully voiced Point-and-Click Adventure set in a war-torn world. Follow Leo, a former soldier, as he returns to his hometown to uncover the fate of his family, restore his home, and confront the dark secrets hidden within.

    Why similar: Dark 20.5%, Story Rich 19.8%, Horror 18.3%, Choices Matter 17.4%, Atmospheric 14.1%

  59. #59 Little Lighthouse of Horror
    67% matchVery Positive88% of 69 reviews2025
    Dev: Codiwans
    Windows

    A pixel art psychological horror game inspired by the Flannan Isles mystery. Manage a remote lighthouse, handle limited resources, and confront eerie occurrences as isolation erodes your sanity. Multiple endings await based on your choices and actions. How long can you last?

    Why similar: Life Sim 24.2%, World War I 19.8%, Mystery 19.1%, Story Rich 13.3%, Horror 13.1%

  60. #60 Cheap Car Repair
    63% matchVery Positive92% of 3,548 reviews2026
    Dev: Little Dog GamesPub: Simplicity Games
    Windows
    Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    Cheap Car Repair - go back in time to Poland of the 90's. Run your own Cheap Car Repair shop. Look for savings wherever you can. Make lots of money and avoid angry customers!

    Why similar: Life Sim 37.1%, Immersive Sim 35%, Simulation 18.4%, First-Person 5.9%, Singleplayer 3.6%

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