Games Like Wandering Squid

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 to slowly uncover the lake's mysteries.

Why similar: Underwater 33.4% ★, Animals 30.7% ★, Open World 9.8%, Exploration 7.7%, Nature 7.5%

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 33.9% ★, Dark 15.5%, Nature 10%, Atmospheric 9.9%, Exploration 8.1%

You are a lowly egg cell on a journey through a swollen sea of strange and humanoid fish. Prey on smaller life and growing larger and stronger to perhaps someday be born.

Why similar: Underwater 17.6% ★, Survival 17.1%, Dark 16.1%, Exploration 8.9%, Nature 7.6%

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 39.9% ★, Exploration 12.8%, Atmospheric 11.5%, Survival 8.5%, Adventure 8.4%

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 41.5% ★, Action 8.8%, Adventure 8.4%, Action-Adventure 8.3%, Side Scroller 8.2%

"Adorabilis" is a game where you control a white ghost to protect adorabilis from various threats while sending it home. You'll have to dodge enemies and trap, or using skills to get through difficulties on the way to home.

Why similar: Underwater 16.4% ★, Dark 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, Adventure 11.1%, 2D 9.7%

Spearfish is a short action-adventure game where you spear through and catch fish as a swordfish. Explore open environments and catch a range of creatures from real-life fish to sea beasts.

Why similar: Underwater 19.6% ★, Animals 12.9% ★, Action 11.1%, Action-Adventure 11%, Adventure 10.1%

Search for answers in a desolate, dangerous world as you pilot the giant. Utilize a variety of safeguards to protect yourself from a fierce military force & unravel the story about the giant's powerful past.

Why similar: Survival 16.9%, Exploration 16.7%, Open World 14.4%, Action-Adventure 13.2%, Dark 9.8%

Survive the perpetual winter as a pack of six-legged, egg-laying tardibears.

Why similar: Survival 27.8%, Dark 23.1%, Open World 14%, Exploration 9.4%, Nature 8.4%

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: Survival 21.3%, Underwater 19.6% ★, Dark 19.2%, Nature 10.7%, Adventure 6.1%

Alone in a remote forest watchtower, your first night on duty turns into a tense fight to understand the signals coming through the radio. Watch the treeline, respond to unsettling events, and survive whatever is moving in the dark.

Why similar: Animals 37.2% ★, Dark 16.1%, Action-Adventure 11.5%, Nature 8.7%, Action 8.6%

Ladybugs and storm is open world exploration simulation, it is about ladybugs survival through the storm, the mission is explore the towers on tiny islands for some food, so the ladybugs will survive through the storm

Why similar: Underwater 36.4% ★, Survival 21.5%, Open World 13.5%, Exploration 9.6%, Dark 8.8%

Walk the streets of Fish Island and collect food. Become sober. Stay alert. There are ghosts. Made with the Godot Engine.

Why similar: Dark 20%, Action 16%, Action-Adventure 14.8%, Adventure 14.5%, Exploration 13.8%

In the game Desperate Island, the player takes on the role of a survivor on a deserted island and must use the island's resources to survive and overcome the challenges posed by nature. The player must search for food and water and create shelters.

Why similar: Survival 19.8%, Action-Adventure 13.1%, Nature 12.9%, Exploration 12.9%, Open World 10.9%

A co-op horror about searching the depths of the ocean for treasure.

Why similar: Underwater 36% ★, Survival 11.3%, Open World 10.4%, Exploration 9.6%, Action-Adventure 9.2%

You are casual pilot of cargo plane, that transporting wheat grain from point A to point B, your job is routine. And once *BOOM* your plane crashed, you landed at mistery land that you need to explore and main thing Survive! Become a truly colonizer and try to escape it, good luck lost soul.

Why similar: Survival 20.3%, Action 16.7%, Adventure 16.6%, Open World 12.5%, Exploration 9.1%

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: Animals 32.8% ★, Underwater 30.3% ★, Open World 11.7%, Nature 8.2%, Exploration 7.1%

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 36.4% ★, Survival 12.4%, Dark 11.8%, Open World 9.9%, Atmospheric 8.9%

A cute 2D underwater puzzle adventure based on Touhou Project.

Why similar: Underwater 45.9% ★, Animals 13.2% ★, Exploration 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%, Nature 6.4%

David is trapped in his grandmother's basement, help him escape! Warning: flashing images and disturbing imagery

Why similar: Dark 20%, Action 17.4%, Adventure 15.3%, Exploration 15.1%, Atmospheric 10.2%

Hunt and eat other fish - simply, grow into larger beasts!

Why similar: Underwater 48.5% ★, Survival 26.8%, Open World 11.1%, Action 5.5%, Adventure 3.2%

An adventurous TV presenter goes to New Zealand. He want to find this place to investigate the story of Maori & Haka Dance. The adventurous who encounters with unexpected events will have to struggle for life against wildlife.

Why similar: Survival 34.1%, Open World 20%, Action 13.8%, Adventure 13.7%, Action-Adventure 11.1%

Jungle Shadow is an action-adventure game set in the world's most dangerous Jungle — Platoshira. Survive, and uncover the depths of danger within Platoshira. Meanwhile, scientists slowly uncover this otherworldly Jungle with their advanced technology and AI. 85% of global travellers won't enter..

Why similar: Side Scroller 14.4%, Action-Adventure 12.5%, Open World 12.3%, Exploration 11.4%, Atmospheric 9%

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

Why similar: Underwater 28.8% ★, Dark 17%, Survival 11.4%, Exploration 8.9%, Physics 8.3%

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 49.9% ★, Atmospheric 12.5%, Exploration 12.3%, Survival 8.1%, Adventure 7.1%

A tropical survival‑defense hybrid where you are the prey and your crops are the prize. Plant, protect, and survive against persistent wildlife in a hostile world where you cannot fight back.

Why similar: Survival 32.4%, Nature 18.9%, Open World 11.2%, Atmospheric 11%, Action 9.2%

Dive for treasure in a chaotic region of the Pacific known as the Triangle of Doom. Avoid starvation, battle strange monsters, and voyage past the point of no return to the undersea.

Why similar: Underwater 36% ★, Survival 17.3%, Adventure 13%, Action 8.7%, Atmospheric 7.7%

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 30.6% ★, Survival 14.9%, Dark 14.5%, Exploration 8.3%, Side Scroller 8%

Behold The Dark is a 2D isometric action, adventure game with pixel graphics and survival horror elements emphasizing on lighting mechanics. Fight off monsters, interact with people, stay in the light, do whatever it takes to fend off that horrible oblivion.

Why similar: Dark 17.2%, Open World 17%, Action-Adventure 12.6%, Exploration 11.9%, Action 9.4%

You are lost, you are small, and the forest is ever-changing. Exchange favours with monsters in classic adventure fashion to escape the increasingly dark expanse, or succumb to the horrors that reside within.

Why similar: Dark 33%, Nature 12%, Atmospheric 12%, Adventure 10.7%, Action-Adventure 9.7%

DEATHTOUCH is an open-world horror game where exploration leads to hidden secrets—and lurking nightmares. Uncover mysterious locations, navigate eerie environments, and survive terrifying encounters in a world that feels truly alive.

Why similar: Survival 31.9%, Open World 16.8%, Exploration 12.9%, Adventure 12.3%, Action 9.5%

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 19.8% ★, Dark 18.8%, Physics 12.3%, Side Scroller 10.3%, Atmospheric 8.6%

Subnautica 2 is an underwater survival adventure set on an all-new alien world, developed by Unknown Worlds. Play alone or with friends in 4-player co-op. Adapt to survive by building custom bases and crafting tools. Explore the unknown to uncover the mysteries hidden within the depths.

Why similar: Underwater 40% ★, Survival 23.4%, Open World 12.6%, Exploration 10.8%, Atmospheric 6.3%

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: Animals 32.6% ★, Underwater 32.1% ★, Exploration 9.2%, Survival 7.7%, Atmospheric 7.3%

One curious octopus. One underwater research centre. The long way home. A short 3D point-and-click adventure about a small escape - played with all eight hands.

Why similar: Animals 34.3% ★, Underwater 27.6% ★, Adventure 15.1%, Exploration 13.8%, Atmospheric 8.2%

Welcome to Jumbo: Jewel of Realms, an action-platformer adventure! Embark on a quest from Bloom Town that would take you against countless of formidable foes – interact with a variety of unique characters with their own stories and discover the secrets of the Jewel of Realms.

Why similar: Side Scroller 14.7%, Action-Adventure 13.6%, Exploration 12.8%, Nature 10.3%, Adventure 9.9%

You're in a dark room. you have to escape from here but.. can't see anything!!

Why similar: Dark 29.7%, Adventure 18.5%, Atmospheric 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, 2D 10.3%

A short, cheerful action-adventure game where you guide a crab in search of food. Avoid a variety of predators, sea-born obstacles, litterers, rival crustaceans, and explore the hostile waters to find all the tasty treats and save the bay along the way.

Why similar: Underwater 36% ★, Side Scroller 15.3%, Action-Adventure 13.2%, Exploration 12.1%, Nature 7%

Let's follow the flow and head to our friends!It's a never-ending side-scrolling relaxing action game where you push buttons and keys to little swim, recover strength, and head to fellow jellyfish while go with the flow of the sea.

Why similar: Underwater 44.2% ★, Side Scroller 16.1%, Atmospheric 10.7%, Nature 9.8%, Exploration 8.2%

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 35.5% ★, Survival 17.9%, Dark 16.2%, Physics 9.2%, Atmospheric 8.3%

Maze Survivor is a survival game set in a procedural maze teeming with monsters. Explore, gather resources, craft items, and upgrade your attributes to escape alive.

Why similar: Animals 27.8% ★, Action-Adventure 11.4%, Adventure 11.4%, Action 11%, Exploration 10.8%

A short, cute puzzle action-adventure through the tense and dangerous Forbidden Forest.

Why similar: Exploration 19.8%, Dark 14.8%, Action 13.4%, Nature 12.5%, 2D 9.7%

Action-packed stories of 3 different guys who kill people to get to a briefcase with supposed wealth. The question is which of them will get it, will it solve their problems, which of them will die and what is in the briefcase?

Why similar: Survival 18.7%, Dark 16.2%, Open World 13.7%, Exploration 9.4%, Action-Adventure 8%

RANJIT is a brutal single-player survival game focused on physics, realism, and freedom. Unlike most open-world games, RANJIT does not provide maps, waypoints, or guidance. Players must rely entirely on their own sense of direction, forced to use their instincts, creating a true sense of freedom.

Why similar: Survival 27.4%, Open World 20.2%, Action 16.1%, Action-Adventure 15.7%, Exploration 12.3%

Narrative exploration game located in a massive, post-human Western Washington. Navigate an open world that has been reclaimed by nature. Use journals, letters, zines, and other documents to learn the interconnected stories of the people who lived here once.

Why similar: Survival 29.5%, Open World 21.8%, Exploration 17.1%, Atmospheric 10.1%, Nature 9.7%

The Asodium is a bite-sized atmospheric horror experience focused on exploration, tension, and survival. Navigate a decaying asylum, avoid unseen threats, and uncover fragmented truths hidden within its walls while struggling to escape an unsettling reality

Why similar: Dark 34.4%, Action 16.5%, Adventure 15%, Atmospheric 11.7%, Exploration 11.2%

Survive and thrive as a sea creature in a vast online ocean. Hunt, evolve, and adapt in a dynamic underwater world filled with danger, mystery, and other players. Will you rise as an apex predator or vanish beneath the waves?

Why similar: Underwater 33% ★, Survival 16.3%, Open World 12.4%, Nature 10.9%, Exploration 9%

In this simulation game, play the role of a proud northern pike (Esox lucius) living in a North American lake. Your goal: Surviving and becoming the King of Agonik Lake! To achieve this feat, feed yourself; get stronger, taller, faster; and avoid various hazards along the way.

Why similar: Survival 32.7%, Adventure 15.4%, Exploration 15.1%, Nature 13.1%, Action-Adventure 10.7%

The world is a vast, beautiful and dangerous place, especially if you're stranded on an island full of cursed skeletons. Find ways to escape from this island together with the villagers on the island.

Why similar: Survival 37.9%, Exploration 16.3%, Adventure 13.4%, Open World 10.6%, Action 10.2%

Survival game where you explore and build. Survive nature's events like acid rain, meteor crashes, zombie eclipses and more. Unlock new maps and characters with special abilities.

Why similar: Survival 48.1%, Action 19.3%, Adventure 17.5%, 2D 9.6%, Indie 3.7%

Sea Warden is a co-op survival adventure set on the back of Ao, a giant sea turtle journeying across a shattered world. Build, craft, explore, and defend your living base as you travel between forgotten islands in search of lost knowledge and stranded souls.

Why similar: Survival 27.3%, Underwater 26% ★, Open World 15.6%, Adventure 7.8%, Exploration 7.7%

1st chapter of "Zefyr: A Thief's Melody". In a colorful archipelago, play as a young thief studying at the Guild. Investigate kidnappings, steer clear of roaming pirates or fight them. Sail the ocean on a cute turtle and climb on every island. Cure sick animals and reveal the truth.

Why similar: Animals 32.8% ★, Open World 12.6%, Nature 12.3%, Exploration 10.8%, Atmospheric 9.7%

Guide a herd of mysterious creatures on a stirring and beautiful journey into the mountains… and beyond.

Why similar: Animals 35.7% ★, Dark 16.4%, Nature 11.8%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Exploration 9.5%

As the last mother fox on Earth, your cubs need all your care to survive in a merciless world that slowly destroys itself. You have to help them, teach them and save them. And you should never forget that extinction is forever – in the real world and in this 2023 BAFTA award winning experience.

Why similar: Survival 21.4%, Nature 14.5%, Dark 14.5%, Atmospheric 11.1%, Side Scroller 9.6%

In Raventure, you play as a brave warrior on a perilous journey across a scorching desert.

Why similar: Open World 19.1%, Survival 17.4%, Side Scroller 14.8%, Action-Adventure 13.3%, Exploration 11.3%

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 48.6% ★, Action 10.3%, Adventure 9.6%, Action-Adventure 8.7%, Exploration 8.1%