Games Like Wake

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: Indie 55.8%, Action 44.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game perfectly mirrors the underwater exploration and metroidvania elements of Wake within a decaying, atmospheric world.

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 You'll Like It: A deep-sea metroidvania that captures the same sense of isolation and environmental danger found in a sinking ship.

You're trapped, alone and cold on a distant planet. Pursued by a droid with only one purpose: killing everything. You must find an escape. Explore the hostile environment, find secret upgrades and new weapons, and finally make your escape from this dark, hostile planet...

Why similar: Platformer 55.8%, Action 44.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on the core loop of exploring a hostile environment and upgrading abilities to survive, much like the progression in Wake.

Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.

Why similar: Platformer 46.6%, Indie 31.2%, Action 22.2%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-heavy metroidvania that rewards careful navigation and hazard avoidance in a sci-fi setting.

Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.

Why similar: Indie 38.5%, Platformer 35.3%, Action 26.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features tight, hazard-filled platforming and exploration that feels very similar to the fast-paced danger of Wake.

Run, gun and explore an open undercity in this otherworldly non-linear Metroidvania adventure about the Old Gods, strange creatures and the remnants of a lost world!

Why similar: Platformer 40.7%, Indie 34.7%, Action 24.6%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater-themed metroidvania that emphasizes environmental interaction and navigating treacherous, alien terrain.

In a world oppressed by ruthless machines, a stronghold full of die-hard TV-sets resists the persecution. Your lost friends and the lack of resources drive you to take action against the extinction. Brave the dangers and go find your comrades to rescue your species!

Why similar: Indie 39.2%, Platformer 38.7%, Action 22.2%

Why You'll Like It: A high-speed platformer that emphasizes dodging traps and hazards, matching the frantic pace of Wake.

When the protagonist wakes up, he finds himself on a luxury cruise ship. The game revolves around the story of his attempts to escape from the sinking ship and a group of passengers he feels nostalgic about.

Why similar: Indie 55.3%, Action 44.7%

Why You'll Like It: An atmospheric platformer that focuses on navigating a sinking, dangerous environment.

Aquaria is an award-winning action-adventure game set in a massive underwater world teeming with life and filled with ancient secrets. Join Naija, a lone underwater adventurer, as she travels from hidden caves shrouded in darkness, to beautiful, sunlit oases in search of her past.

Why similar: Indie 67.9%, Action 20%, Platformer 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: Centers entirely on underwater movement and exploration, providing a similar aquatic feel to the swimming mechanics in Wake.

SteamWorld Dig is back! Dig deep, gain riches and unearth the terrors of the underworld in this platform mining adventure influenced by classic Metroidvania style games.

Why similar: Platformer 45.5%, Indie 30.6%, Action 23.8%

Why You'll Like It: Combines exploration and platforming with a focus on navigating underground hazards and upgrading gear.

Capsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!

Why similar: Platformer 45%, Indie 28.3%, Action 26.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features physics-based platforming and combat in a hostile alien environment that demands constant movement.

In 2097, life is discovered on Mars. When your mission of first contact becomes trapped by a cave-in, you must master the alien ecosystem to survive. Soon you stumble upon more than anyone expected, and with time running out, you will make a decision that determines the fate of a lost planet.

Why similar: Platformer 49.9%, Indie 35.2%, Action 14.9%

Why You'll Like It: An exploration-focused adventure that shares a similar sci-fi atmosphere and sense of discovery.

“Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning Action-Platformer crafted by Moon Studios.

Why similar: Platformer 68.4%, Action 16.5%, Indie 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers fluid, movement-based platforming that captures the same grace and precision required to survive Wake's hazards.

Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.

Why similar: Platformer 54.1%, Indie 32.4%, Action 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep, challenging metroidvania experience with a heavy emphasis on exploration and overcoming environmental obstacles.

You were on the way to a recycling process when fortunately for you - and unfortunately for the environment - you accidentally ran off. Now your goal is to escape from the facility, which is an extremely difficult task due to the fact that you are a battery without legs.

Why similar: Indie 46.1%, Action 28.8%, Platformer 25.2%

Why You'll Like It: A puzzle-platformer that requires precise movement to avoid electrical hazards.

Xeodrifter is the story of an interstellar drifter traveling the stars on a simple mission of exploration. We join our nomad as he embarks on the investigation of a small cluster of four planets in the omega sector, after a collision with a rogue asteroid damaged his warp core.

Why similar: Platformer 47.7%, Indie 30.4%, Action 21.9%

Why You'll Like It: A concise, action-packed metroidvania that focuses on movement and dodging projectiles in a sci-fi setting.

You are a nomadic slugcat, both predator and prey in a broken ecosystem. Grab your spear and brave the industrial wastes, hunting enough food to survive, but be wary— other, bigger creatures have the same plan... and slugcats look delicious.

Why similar: Platformer 51.8%, Indie 34.9%, Action 13.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features intense survival mechanics and hazard avoidance that mirror the desperate escape feel of Wake.

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: Platformer 48.5%, Indie 27.6%, Action 24%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater puzzle-platformer that emphasizes the dangers of deep-sea exploration.

Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.

Why similar: Indie 37.5%, Platformer 36%, Action 26.4%

Why You'll Like It: A polished action-platformer that balances narrative with complex environmental puzzles and boss encounters.

Momodora: Reverie Under The Moonlight is the fourth installment in the beloved Momodora series of 2D platformers. Unleash ravaging combos against a variety of formidable monsters and deftly dodge your way through a cursed land to seek audience with the Queen and dispel the evil that threatens all life.

Why similar: Platformer 66.7%, Action 33.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced action-platformer that requires quick reflexes to dodge traps and enemies.

Trapped in a sinking submarine, two players must communicate through walkie-talkies to solve puzzles, complete tasks, navigate the depths, and escape before time runs out.

Why similar: Action 100%

Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure game that emphasizes coordination and movement to survive underwater challenges.

Play as android MIO in this mesmerizing metroidvania where you explore the Vessel, an enormous technological ark overgrown with machines gone rogue. Uncover its secrets, enhance MIO's abilities, and save the spaceship and its residents from oblivion.

Why similar: Platformer 55.5%, Indie 31%, Action 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: A metroidvania that emphasizes fluid exploration and platforming in a mysterious, atmospheric world.

What’s left of humanity are minds trapped in circuits. You are awaken as ReSetna, a warrior on a mission to rescue last human remnants. Explore seven hostile zones, face seven brutal bosses and evolve through a unique upgrade system. Uncover horrifying truth and decide if the future is worth saving.

Why similar: Platformer 43.3%, Indie 31%, Action 25.6%

Why You'll Like It: A modern metroidvania that focuses on action and exploration within a challenging, interconnected map.

Sundered is a chaotic hand­-drawn metroidvania where you resist or embrace ancient eldritch powers, a challenging and unique take on a classic genre from the creators of Jotun, now with local co-op!

Why similar: Platformer 49.5%, Indie 31.3%, Action 19.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on large-scale action and platforming with a high degree of environmental danger.

After a freak storm over the Atlantic, you find yourself stranded on the shores of a mysterious island. Do you have what it takes to escape the Lost Sea?

Why similar: Indie 53.7%, Action 46.3%

Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure game that involves navigating treacherous waters and islands.

Airscape is a fast-paced, ultra-challenging 60 level action platformer. You play a deep-sea octopus, kidnapped by a mechanical alien race. Jump, dodge, and swim through a skybound environment full of floating islands, water formations, and robotic terrors.

Why similar: Platformer 53.7%, Action 23.8%, Indie 22.4%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult platformer that forces players to master gravity-defying movement to avoid instant death.

Dark Matter is a 2.5D side-scrolling survival horror game, set in a derelict spaceship besieged by a sinister alien presence, and infested with deadly parasites. As the Ensign, you must explore fetid hallways and abandoned facilities, scavenging for parts and blueprints, expanding your arsenal to up to four deadly weapons and freely...

Why similar: Indie 53.6%, Action 46.4%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling action game set in a sci-fi environment filled with environmental hazards.

Your ship has crash-landed on a stray rogue planet, and you're out of fuel... It's up to you to delve beneath the frozen surface and find a way to get your ship back into space while fighting strange sea creatures and uncovering the mysteries of the world beneath the ice!

Why similar: Action 63.3%, Indie 36.7%

A child infiltrates a spaceship to carry out a secret rescue mission. His objective is compromised when they must make a forced landing on a strange planet. Explore this mysterious place, overcome obstacles, and find the way back home!

Why similar: Platformer 100%

Unravel the mystery uncovered by a remote interplanetary mining operation. What did they find? What threat does it pose? And ultimately, what does it truly mean to be a hero?

Why similar: Indie 43.8%, Action 31%, Platformer 25.1%

Why You'll Like It: A metroidvania that focuses on the theme of escaping a confined, dangerous space.

Guide your puddle of fluid through a vast range of environments and puzzles!

Why similar: Indie 48.4%, Action 26.5%, Platformer 25.2%

Surf the waters of a submerged city! Unravel the past, save the islanders from mysterious sea monsters and discover secrets hidden under the surface.

Why similar: Platformer 95.7%, Indie 4.3%

Slip is a fast paced side scrolling platformer featuring a two color, swap mechanic. Using your two colors flee from Steve and his wretched purple beam through a multitude of obstacles and enemies. Slip combines the elegant simplicity of platforming with a polarity mechanic to create an easy to learn, but extremely difficult to master...

Why similar: Indie 39.9%, Action 30.5%, Platformer 29.6%

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: Indie 67.6%, Action 32.4%

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: Action 100%

Grimind is a 2D, physics based, adventure, platform game in horror/creepy theme. Grimind casts you into forgotten caves and ancient crypts, without memories. While being there you have to demonstrate great manual skills to pass obstacles and solve non trivial puzzles to get out of scary environment and additionally discover what are you...

Why similar: Platformer 47.7%, Indie 40.6%, Action 11.7%

As Sam McRae, last surviving member of the “Titan Hauler” crew, you must hack and blast your way through an onslaught of truly bad 'bots to find a way to prevent a potential planet-destroying catastrophe.

Why similar: Indie 56.6%, Action 43.4%

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: Action 52.4%, Indie 47.6%

Dive The Depths is an action-roguelike set beneath the ocean's surface. As a humble diver, you must navigate the world filled with bizarre sea creatures, submerged ruins, and forgotten histories. Can you conquer the depths and unravel the secrets that hidden beneath the waves?

Why similar: Action 50.5%, Indie 49.5%

Stray Savior is a 2D action platformer packed full of lethal traps, precise jumps, and powerful bosses. Venture through the dystopian world with weapons and skills, to prove yourself and forge your own path.

Why similar: Platformer 48.1%, Action 29.4%, Indie 22.5%

Stranded after his ship is destroyed in deep space, Harrison, a lowly maintenance worker and our hero, must struggle to find his way home... Dodge, boost and die your way through space! Explore 4 solar systems with a surly robot sidekick in this deep and deadly dodge 'em up!

Why similar: Indie 54.7%, Action 45.3%

Living liquid machines have overrun a world of unstoppable progress and their inventor must stop the chaos in this game about a man with the power to bring ordinary matter to life!

Why similar: Platformer 49%, Indie 35.2%, Action 15.8%

Stranded at an Island, the Vessel is broked, do whatever it takes to survive.

Why similar: Indie 100%

Tragedy of Prince Rupert is a fast-paced 2D action shooter with a historical hot air balloon (Montgolfiere).

Why similar: Indie 54.2%, Action 45.8%

A unique 2D firefighting platformer from the creator of Dead Cells, featuring devastating backdrafts, exploding walls, and expected cat rescues. Battle your way through a mysterious government facility, striving to keep the blaze under control.

Why similar: Platformer 51.2%, Indie 26.2%, Action 22.6%

You wake up in your cryo-pod. Other crew members are dead. Something is wrong with the spaceship and if you don't use all your wits, you will not leave this place alive...

Why similar: Indie 100%

Bounce, dash, and grapple through flooded caverns in this fast-paced first-person action platformer. Descend into Grimhook's sunken ruins as Dart, mastering Lovecraftian powers and decimating robotic foes. Explore, battle, and unravel the mysteries below Miletos.

Why similar: Platformer 64.1%, Action 35.9%

Help a small body save a head-like organism full of air, from a leak that threatens its life. Explore their Metroidvania-style world and overcome challenging environmental puzzles to find the key to the head's survival.

Why similar: Indie 48.6%, Action 30.2%, Platformer 21.2%

Experience a fast-paced, single-player adventure mixing fluid motion, split-second decision making, stylized machine-age visuals, and a dynamic soundscape.

Why similar: Platformer 38.4%, Indie 33.1%, Action 28.5%

Avoiding all obstacles and collect points before they are destroyed. Watch out for projectiles and enemies stalking you! Will you the #1 highscore on leaderboard against your friends?

Why similar: Indie 54.7%, Action 45.3%

Olija is a game about Faraday's quest, a man shipwrecked then trapped in the mysterious country of Terraphage. Armed with a legendary harpoon, he and other castaways try to leave this hostile country to return to their homelands.

Why similar: Platformer 43.6%, Indie 30.3%, Action 26.1%

Step into the space suit of valiant gravity badger Captain T Bayback as he ventures into the deadly depths of deep space to save his friends, family and the universe itself from the threat of the deadly Evil Honey Badgers, aka the Hellsett.

Why similar: Indie 39.8%, Platformer 35.7%, Action 24.5%

Planet Cube is being invaded! Prepare to run, gun, jump and dash your way through an underwater science complex, collecting fire-power to turn the tables on a mysterious aggressor. This is high-speed adventuring set in a hand-crafted pixel art world, filled with precision platforming and thrills.

Why similar: Platformer 69.1%, Action 30.9%

Traverse a dried-out seabed littered with the remains of a decaying civilization. Keep your unique vessel going, overcome numerous obstacles and withstand the hazardous weather conditions. How far can you make it? What will you find?

Why similar: Platformer 44.4%, Indie 33%, Action 22.6%

Shipwrecked on a myth-shrouded island, play as rookie pirate Marcus “Rookie” Ramsey and explore haunting biomes, face unforgiving combat, and unravel a deep-sea curse in search of your lost crew, the Angry Mermaids.

Why similar: Action 100%

Project Abyss is a deep sea adventure game where you explore as a diver, forced to survive a destiny that goes deeper than anyone imagined.

Why similar: Indie 53.7%, Action 46.3%

A scientist uses a unique teleportation instrument to escape an ancient biomechanical world filled with imaginative technology, deadly traps, and hidden secrets.

Why similar: Platformer 69.2%, Action 30.8%

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: Platformer 54.2%, Indie 26.1%, Action 19.7%