Games Like Touhou a Mermaid's Reverie

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 62.5% ★, Female Protagonist 13.4%, Exploration 7.3%, Fantasy 6.8%, Puzzle 6%

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 59.5% ★, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Exploration 11.4%, Anime 5.5%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%

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 76.7% ★, Exploration 9.8%, Female Protagonist 4.9%, Adventure 3.5%, Nature 2.8%

You are Luna, a dolphin in a living ocean. Echolocate to find what the water hides, breach into open sky, and dive into the dark. Nothing here is scenery, the sea has its own residents, its own depths, and its own reasons to be somewhere you are not.

Why similar: Underwater 61% ★, Exploration 13%, Animals 9.9% ★, Nature 6.3%, Atmospheric 4.5%

Dive into a beautiful yet deadly pixel deep sea and track unknown signals from the abyss. Manage oxygen, pressure, currents, and creatures while exploring. Capture life with a harpoon, find relics and chests, upgrade gear, and face hidden giants. The deeper you go, the greater the risk.

Why similar: Underwater 68.6% ★, Exploration 13.6%, Adventure 5%, Atmospheric 5%, Pixel Graphics 4.2%

A game recommended for younger kids. You control a little fish that just got back to the ocean from a thrown away aquarium. Explore the colorful underwater world, collect treasures, avoid dangers and find your new home.

Why similar: Underwater 66.8% ★, Exploration 12%, Cute 6.7%, Adventure 6.5%, Nature 6.2%

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 55.9% ★, Exploration 11.2%, Puzzle 10.3%, Adventure 6.5%, Nature 6.2%

Scour the wreckage of a pirate ship in this colorful 2D side scrolling underwater action adventure! Fight off all manner of sea creatures and rival divers with your harpoon gun and bombs as you gather treasure but beware of ghastly pirate ghosts seeking to reclaim what was once theirs!

Why similar: Underwater 68.3% ★, Collectathon 12.8%, Exploration 9%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%, Adventure 3.5%

you are a fish who does tricks

Why similar: Underwater 72.4% ★, Collectathon 13%, Physics 6.9%, Exploration 6.8%, Indie 0.8%

Play as a bear diving underwater to explore the ocean’s depths. Collect shells, plants, treasures, and other valuable items from the underwater world. Use your finds to upgrade your gear, allowing you to dive deeper. The deeper you go, the more secrets and hidden places you can discover.

Why similar: Underwater 71.7% ★, Exploration 7.7%, Adventure 5%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%, Cute 3.9%

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 70.2% ★, Exploration 9.5%, Nature 6.5%, Cute 5.8%, Adventure 3.6%

Dive into AquaDream! Guide your anglerfish through intricate underwater mazes. Collect stars, solve puzzles, and avoid perilous obstacles. Experience a captivating deep-sea adventure filled with hidden treasures and mysteries in this immersive aquatic world.

Why similar: Underwater 53.6% ★, Collectathon 13.9%, Exploration 9.7%, Puzzle 8.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%

Explore a hidden underwater ecosystem beneath the surface of a remote crater lake. Become familiar with the diverse local wildlife, investigate submerged ruins and wrecks, and recover lost equipment. Make new discoveries as you go deeper. But be careful, the lake might hold unknown dangers.

Why similar: Underwater 63.3% ★, Animals 10.9% ★, Exploration 9.7%, Female Protagonist 4.4%, Nature 4.2%

Save the coral reef city in this cute tiny adventure game! Meet the colourful residents of this underwater city, explore the streets, befriend different species of fish and help them restore the corals to their former glory!

Why similar: Underwater 53.7% ★, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Exploration 10%, Nature 9.4%, Puzzle 6.6%

Follow a mysterious marine biologist down to the depths to study a whalefall at the bottom of the ocean. Photograph specimen, collect samples and discover more about your closed-off marine biologist as her mind unravels and she believes there is something down there with her.

Why similar: Underwater 76.9% ★, Female Protagonist 14.1%, Atmospheric 4.3%, Adventure 3.8%, Indie 0.9%

A simple and short cozy game where you play as an unusual robot, exploring an underwater cave system.

Why similar: Underwater 56.7% ★, Collectathon 16.1%, Exploration 10%, Nature 7.3%, Adventure 3.9%

Dive deeper than ever before! Search for Atlantis across 8 unique global locations. Manage your oxygen, breach the surface to plan your next move, and use dynamite or underwater robots to carve your path. Discover over 50 marine species in this immersive diving adventure.

Why similar: Underwater 78% ★, Exploration 11.8%, Atmospheric 5%, Adventure 3.9%, Indie 1.4%

From the creators of Ratchet & Clank, Song of the Deep is a metroidvania-style action-adventure game following a young girl’s quest into the unknown to find her missing father. It combines underwater discovery, skill, and suspense with a powerful story.

Why similar: Underwater 72.2% ★, Female Protagonist 17.2%, Adventure 5.6%, Puzzle 4%, 2D 1%

An adventure game about a hungry fish 🐟 Dive, jump, swim and eat your way through a lush micro-world. Can you escape the polluted pond?

Why similar: Underwater 34.3% ★, Collectathon 15.7%, Puzzle 10.5%, Exploration 10.4%, Nature 8.7%

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 47.8% ★, Exploration 15.2%, Puzzle 12.6%, Female Protagonist 9.3%, Adventure 6.6%

Teach the gods to create a better universe - or mess it all up in Mythic Ocean, a narrative exploration game where your choices shape the fate of the cosmos.

Why similar: Underwater 74.6% ★, Exploration 8.8%, Adventure 8.7%, Indie 4.1%, Atmospheric 3.7%

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 71% ★, Exploration 10.2%, Adventure 5.2%, Nature 4.7%, Multiple Endings 2.9%

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 65.2% ★, Exploration 12.7%, Nature 8.3%, Atmospheric 4.8%, Cute 4.1%

Descend into a corrupted abyss as a light-wielding anglerfish in this haunting deep-sea adventure. Evade deadly predators, solve physics-based puzzles, uncover forgotten knowledge, and use your light to push back shadows and restore what was lost.

Why similar: Underwater 64.7% ★, Exploration 9.6%, Nature 8%, Atmospheric 4.8%, Adventure 3.5%

Dive into a peaceful underwater world as a small fish. Swim freely through beautiful corals, discover different fish, and escape into a relaxing experience inspired by the beauty of nature.

Why similar: Underwater 70.8% ★, Exploration 10.8%, Nature 9.2%, Adventure 4.5%, Atmospheric 3.1%

A 3D action-adventure game where a mermaid uses the power of her song to dispel the dark mist and restore the ocean’s vibrant beauty. Purify the darkened corals by delivering your song and restore their beauty. Swim swiftly by passing through bubble rings scattered across the field.

Why similar: Underwater 52.1% ★, Female Protagonist 17.5%, Exploration 14.9%, Cute 6.7%, Adventure 3.8%

A dreamy idle aquarium game set in the deep sea, where players collect, feed, and evolve a variety of fish to build their own underwater paradise. Tap bubbles to release food, attract fish, complete tasks, and relax in a soothing aquatic world.

Why similar: Underwater 80.9% ★, Anime 10.3%, Cute 5.8%, 2D 1.9%, Indie 1.1%

SharkKing is an aquatic eat em up.

Why similar: Underwater 83.1% ★, Pixel Graphics 12%, Indie 3.1%, 2D 1.8%

An open-world RPG where you can adventure in a vast world using a variety of weapons and skills. You can fight in search of strong opponents, live a slow and leisurely life, adventure in search of treasure, or explore ruins in pursuit of the mysteries of the world. It's all up to the player.

Why similar: Underwater 54.8% ★, Collectathon 11%, Anime 9.3%, Exploration 6.6%, Cute 5.8%

Save Atlantis in this unique physics-based Match-3 game!

Why similar: Underwater 63.4% ★, Female Protagonist 12.5%, Puzzle 12.2%, Physics 8%, Indie 3.9%

Dive into a magical underwater world in this pixel art action-adventure RPG. Explore sunken ruins, battle fearsome sea creatures, uncover lost memories, and shape your destiny beneath the tides.

Why similar: Underwater 74.2% ★, Exploration 7.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%, Adventure 5.1%, Fantasy 4.1%

A short horror game where you pilot a tiny spaceship through turbulent "waters" surrounding a supermassive blackhole. Retrieve and scan sites of interest while managing your noise footprint.

Why similar: Underwater 74.6% ★, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Atmospheric 5.8%, Exploration 5%, Adventure 4%

A cozy third-person adventure where you will make new friends, experience realistic physics and buoyancy characteristics as you dive beneath the waves to explore an exciting undersea world, and develop a world-class aquarium.

Why similar: Underwater 73.7% ★, Exploration 11.6%, Physics 5.9%, Adventure 4.8%, Cute 4.1%

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 60.2% ★, Puzzle 9.9%, Collectathon 8.4%, Multiple Endings 8%, Cute 5.7%

Dive is a 2d pixel art platformer that takes place underwater. You cannot jump in this game, instead you use the ability to raise and lower pillars of water to gain vertical movement and solve puzzles.

Why similar: Underwater 74.8% ★, Adventure 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 10.3%, 2D 1.9%, Indie 1.8%

Play as a pufferfish who can only say "Cool" in a top-down adventure through an underwater Olympus. Solve puzzles, face gods armed to the fins, and uncover the mystery behind Poseidon’s disappearance.

Why similar: Underwater 46% ★, Collectathon 11.3%, Exploration 10.5%, Puzzle 9.2%, Funny 7.7%

You are a small goldfish who has to protect a youngling while discovering how unforgiving the ponds in the wilderness are. Your objective is to defend a baby fish from predators while out maneuvering them while evading other obstacles that may be in your way while searching for safer waters.

Why similar: Underwater 77.1% ★, Nature 7.1%, Cute 7.1%, Adventure 5.2%, Physics 2.5%

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 76.4% ★, Exploration 12.2%, Adventure 5.6%, Atmospheric 4.3%, Indie 1.5%

For those who love exploring the underwater worlds in games, "Traíras" is the perfect adventure!

Why similar: Underwater 79.3% ★, Funny 8.1%, Exploration 7%, Adventure 3.5%, 2D 1.2%

Explore the ruins of the human race and discover the thriving wildlife that blossomed after our extinction in this underwater action/adventure. Encounter monstrous creatures and let curiosity guide you through an inevitable voyage of extinction.

Why similar: Underwater 78.4% ★, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Adventure 5.2%, Exploration 4.2%, Indie 2.3%

Immerse yourself in an unforgettable diving vacation! Break free from the limits of air supply and dive into the beauty of the ocean and its incredible marine life. Build your own personalized ocean encyclopedia, make friends with a diverse cast of dive buddies, and savor these moments of leisure.

Why similar: Underwater 46.8% ★, Collectathon 12.9%, Female Protagonist 8.7%, Exploration 8.3%, Nature 7.2%

A serene, hand-made cave-diving adventure. Descend through a living ocean of five biomes, where your air is the only clock. Read the cave, find the air pockets, and surface before it runs out. Just you, the deep, and the next breath. Made by a dad and his two sons.

Why similar: Underwater 73.4% ★, Exploration 11.8%, Cute 4.9%, Atmospheric 4.6%, Adventure 3.6%

Find supplies to maintain your stamina. Complete ten laps. Escape.

Why similar: Underwater 75.5% ★, Exploration 18.8%, Indie 5.7%

Dive into an explorable water world where Elders are mysteriously being trapped in crystal prisons. The freedom of the elders depends on a single naive little spirit to explore and find a way to release them.

Why similar: Underwater 62.4% ★, Exploration 11.1%, Puzzle 8.9%, Nature 7.6%, Atmospheric 4.2%

Always dreamed of knowing what it feels like to be a seal, but life keeps getting in the way of basking in the sun and eating fish? Here’s your chance! Explore the aquarium, solve puzzles, avoid dangers, and find your way home. We offer you a colorful world, mesmerizing scenery, and much more!

Why similar: Underwater 59.5% ★, Animals 13.3% ★, Puzzle 9.5%, Cute 7.3%, Exploration 6.2%

The rogue-like strategy game Offcoast takes place in a subterranean, underwater landscape.

Why similar: Underwater 95.2% ★, 2D 2.5%, Indie 2.3%

Master the art of strategy in Spectrum Siege, a vibrant turn-based game of grid domination. Jump, capture, and outmaneuver your opponents on a dynamic board.

Why similar: Underwater 69.8% ★, Collectathon 14.3%, Fantasy 7.7%, Cute 5.6%, 2D 1.3%

You’re a moose on a diving adventure. Swim into the ocean and vacuum coins from the seabed. Sell the coins and earn money to upgrade and buy new gear. Swim deeper and find treasure chests to collect power boosting artefacts, but don’t forget to keep an eye on your oxygen level.

Why similar: Underwater 55.2% ★, Animals 15.5% ★, Collectathon 13.7%, Exploration 9.7%, Atmospheric 3.2%

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

Why similar: Underwater 87% ★, Multiple Endings 5.9%, Atmospheric 4.1%, Adventure 2%, Indie 1%

Embark on an epic adventure as a sword-wielding fish and restore order to the kingdom's depths. Explore an ocean world full of adorable characters, menacing foes, and hidden wonders.

Why similar: Underwater 59.4% ★, Exploration 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Fantasy 6%, Cute 4.6%

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 55% ★, Collectathon 10.3%, Exploration 8.1%, Nature 7.5%, Puzzle 6.9%

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 96.1% ★, Adventure 2.7%, Indie 1.2%

An underwater journey to the squirrel's past memories

Why similar: Underwater 75.1% ★, Adventure 5.3%, Puzzle 4.7%, Cute 4.4%, Exploration 4.3%

Dive beneath the depths and explore a vast underwater world, hunt for prey and evade predators to survive - or not.

Why similar: Underwater 46.6% ★, Animals 11.9% ★, Exploration 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%, Nature 6.5%

Swim, dive, and explore as a curious sea otter far from home. Meet charming animals, discover hidden places, use tools, and solve light challenges as you make your way back with your favorite rock by your side.

Why similar: Underwater 56.3% ★, Animals 17% ★, Exploration 8.2%, Cute 6.8%, Nature 6.3%

Break out of a top-secret military operation! To enter the portal that leads to your escape, you must thwart an army of fish-like machines and collect their power-ups.

Why similar: Underwater 77.3% ★, Pixel Graphics 10%, Funny 6%, Physics 3.8%, 2D 2%

Play as a salmon journeying home in this challenging physics based platformer using only two buttons! Remember that on a voyage through innumerable obstacles and constant danger, it is your reaction to adversity that determines your success.

Why similar: Underwater 48% ★, Collectathon 11.3%, Female Protagonist 8.6%, Exploration 7.3%, Puzzle 6.5%

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 60.9% ★, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Exploration 9.5%, Puzzle 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.1%