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Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Submarine 41.2% ★, Underwater 24.3% ★, Co-op 17.7%, Multiplayer 8.9%, Simulation 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive cooperative submarine simulator that perfectly captures the high-stakes tension and mechanical depth of managing a vessel under pressure.

Ship of Fools is a seafaring cooperative roguelite. Set sail, man the cannons and battle sea monsters through the tempestuous seas of the Archipelago. Are you fool enough to stop the Aquapocalypse?

Why similar: Co-op 30.8%, Roguelite 20.2%, Roguelike 14.2%, Multiplayer 14%, Online Co-Op 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative roguelite that focuses on sea-based combat and ship management with a charming, hand-drawn aesthetic.

Explore a neon galaxy in your very own battleship in this 1- to 4-player couch co-op adventure.

Why similar: Co-op 54.2%, Multiplayer 28.5%, 2D 8.6%, Action 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core mechanic of managing various stations on a vehicle with friends to survive increasingly difficult waves of enemies.

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

Why similar: Lovecraftian 32%, Underwater 30.6% ★, Roguelite 14.2%, Roguelike 10.4%, Exploration 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelite exploration game that leans heavily into the underwater, Lovecraftian aesthetic and the dangers of diving into the abyss.

Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!

Why similar: Co-op 39.8%, Loot 25.5%, PvE 20.8%, Exploration 9.5%, Action 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: While set in space, it offers the same chaotic, class-based cooperative exploration and survival loop that makes team coordination essential.

DREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade your boat, and dredge the depths for long-buried secrets. Explore a mysterious archipelago and discover why some things are best left forgotten.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 68.9%, Exploration 17.5%, Simulation 7.8%, Adventure 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the Lovecraftian, eerie atmosphere of deep-sea exploration and the constant threat of the unknown lurking beneath the waves.

Void Crew is a Chaotic, Co-op Roguelite game for 1 to 6 players: Outfit your spaceship and crew for thrilling quests, brave fierce enemies in Space Battles... and try not to panic!

Why similar: Co-op 30.5%, Roguelite 16.5%, Multiplayer 16.4%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, PvE 11%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative space-sim that requires players to work together to pilot, repair, and defend a ship, mirroring the submarine crew experience.

Solo or up to 8 players. Get rid of your employer's failed experiments in abandoned underwater labs. Navigate your submarine, avoid abyssal terrors, and remove all corpses.

Why similar: Underwater 41.8% ★, Online Co-Op 15%, Loot 14.7%, Multiplayer 12.4%, PvE 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror game that tasks players with diving into dangerous, underwater environments to retrieve items while avoiding threats.

Own the skies in steam-powered airships! Guns of Icarus Alliance is a team-based online game that pits co-op crews against both rival teams and an AI that learns your tactics. Players become part of the story as each battle shapes history in an ever-changing steampunk world.

Why similar: Steampunk 39.2% ★, Team-Based 20%, Co-op 14.7%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Simulation 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the intense cooperative management of an airship, mirroring the submarine crew dynamics found in the seed game.

Hidden Deep is an atmospheric sci-fi action game heavily inspired by Aliens, The Thing, and Half-Life. Explore, climb, swim, scan, blast and shoot your way through dangerous missions in a huge sub oceanic mining and research facility. Fear the horrors that lurk below…

Why similar: Co-op 32.4%, 2D Platformer 20.9%, Multiplayer 18.4%, Exploration 11.2%, 2D 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D action-exploration game that features cooperative mechanics and a dark, atmospheric setting deep underground.

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: Submarine 38.6% ★, Underwater 28.2% ★, Lovecraftian 24.1%, Exploration 4.6%, 2D 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: A metroidvania that focuses on underwater exploration and Lovecraftian horror, emphasizing the isolation of deep-sea diving.

Descend into the depths of an alien underwater world filled with wonder and peril. Craft equipment, pilot submarines and out-smart wildlife to explore lush coral reefs, volcanoes, cave systems, and more - all while trying to survive.

Why similar: Underwater 71.5% ★, Exploration 11.7%, Multiplayer 10.3%, Adventure 3.7%, Action 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for underwater survival and exploration, offering a deep, immersive world filled with mysterious creatures.

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

Why similar: Submarine 56.4% ★, Underwater 37.9% ★, Exploration 3.5%, Adventure 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: A claustrophobic experience that perfectly simulates the isolation and terror of piloting a tiny, makeshift submarine in a hostile environment.

Diluvion is a 3D deep sea, Jules Verne inspired, exploration game with RPG elements and thrilling submarine combat. As the Captain of your own vessel, you must grow and manage your crew as you search for the secrets of the past in a hauntingly beautiful flooded world.

Why similar: Underwater 46.4% ★, Steampunk 24.2% ★, Submarine 22% ★, Action 4.1%, Adventure 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater exploration game that features submarine combat and a unique, atmospheric world inspired by Jules Verne.

Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!

Why similar: Co-op 41%, Online Co-Op 29.7%, Multiplayer 23.9%, Action 5.5%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic cooperative game that requires constant communication and coordination to keep a moving vehicle operational.

Explore abandoned biospheres at the bottom of the ocean, alone or with up to 4 friends.

Why similar: Submarine 34.4% ★, Underwater 26.6% ★, Online Co-Op 12.5%, Co-op 8.6%, Multiplayer 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror game that focuses on underwater exploration and survival against terrifying threats.

Choose your loadout, blast through the corrupted denizens of a sunken civilization, and wield godly powers in Abyssus – a fast-paced 1-to-4 players FPS and roguelite brinepunk adventure.

Why similar: Underwater 16.3% ★, Steampunk 16.1% ★, Co-op 13.2%, Submarine 11.9% ★, Roguelite 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: An underwater-themed roguelite shooter that emphasizes cooperative play and exploration in a hostile, alien environment.

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 44.8%, Steampunk 24.8% ★, Exploration 10.4%, Roguelike 8.1%, Roguelite 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, story-rich exploration game that captures the Lovecraftian dread of navigating a treacherous, subterranean ocean.

Rogue Heroes is a topdown, roguelite adventure game inspired by the Zelda franchise. Play solo or team up with your friends to combat procedurally generated dungeons and take down the evil Titans that threaten to overwhelm the land of Tasos!

Why similar: Co-op 27.2%, Roguelite 17.4%, Roguelike 14.4%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative roguelite that features classic adventure mechanics and dungeon crawling with a charming pixel-art style.

The world's been flooded. All you have left is your Super Raft Boat… and your friends! Work together to expand your raft while fending off the strangely violent (and wealthy??) creatures of the sea in this multiplayer roguelike shooter. Will your crew survive and reach the Final Island?

Why similar: Co-op 20.8%, Online Co-Op 17.9%, Roguelite 16.8%, Roguelike 12.4%, PvE 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative roguelite that focuses on defending a small, moving vessel from waves of enemies, similar to the core loop of the seed game.

Darkwater is a cooperative extraction horror game for 1-4 players. Command a submarine trapped under the ice of an alien planet. Battle enemy vessels and deep sea abominations as you hunt for resources. Do what it takes to survive.

Why similar: Submarine 37.6% ★, Underwater 24.2% ★, Co-op 11.4%, Online Co-Op 9.8%, PvE 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game that focuses on submarine management and strategy in a dark, underwater setting.

Barony is the premier first-person roguelike with cooperative play! Adventure alone, or gather a party with iconic and unusual RPG classes to face off against the brutal dungeons. Test your resourcefulness, wits, and friendships, on your quest to lift the evil lich's curse!

Why similar: Co-op 29.5%, Online Co-Op 25.4%, Multiplayer 23.3%, Roguelike 21.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative roguelike that emphasizes teamwork and survival in challenging, procedurally generated environments.

Play as a shark or a diver in a dark aquatic world and overcome your enemies by employing cunning, teamwork, and stealth. Depth blends tension and visceral action as you team up against AI or be matched with other players in heart pounding combat.

Why similar: Underwater 38.3% ★, Team-Based 23.4%, Co-op 17.2%, Multiplayer 10.2%, Online Co-Op 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer game that pits divers against sharks, focusing on the tension and asymmetric combat of underwater environments.

Strategy co-op online multiplayer game about living on a spaceship with your roommates. You'll need to generate resources, take care of a deadly alien infestation, upgrade your appliances and build your sustainable space home. Living together is never easy, especially when you are in outer space!

Why similar: Co-op 55.1%, Multiplayer 32.3%, Online Co-Op 12.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative strategy game where players must manage a space station, requiring the same level of chaotic coordination as submarine management.

Dive into the Ocean Keeper – a cooperative roguelike where four survival miners defend their Mech Spider, fight with endless hordes of monsters, and dig for resources. Team up with your friends, upgrade between waves, and survive the deep caves, full of treasures… if you can.

Why similar: Roguelite 21.5%, Roguelike 18.9%, Online Co-Op 17.4%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Exploration 11%

Why You'll Like It: A roguelike that combines underwater exploration with tower defense mechanics, requiring players to protect their vessel while gathering resources.

Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.

Why similar: Roguelite 24.2%, Co-op 22.2%, Multiplayer 16%, Roguelike 15.8%, Online Co-Op 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic, top-down roguelite that allows for immense player freedom and cooperative mayhem in a variety of mission types.

Never Split the Party is an ultra social rogue-like! You're one of four adventurers joining together to explore a procedurally generated dungeon, amass powerful upgrades, and cooperate with your fellow adventures to conquer and crush the evil dungeon champions!

Why similar: Roguelike 22.8%, Co-op 19.4%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Roguelite 17.5%, Online Co-Op 12.2%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative roguelike that forces players to stay together to survive, emphasizing team synergy and shared resources.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Co-op 41.5%, Multiplayer 30%, Online Co-Op 16.8%, Adventure 4.2%, Roguelike 3.2%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative survival game with a distinct, dark art style that requires constant resource management and teamwork to survive.

Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.

Why similar: Roguelike 29.9%, Co-op 19.7%, Online Co-Op 19%, Roguelite 12.6%, Multiplayer 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A classic cooperative roguelite that focuses on scaling difficulty and team synergy during intense combat encounters.

Tools Up! is an exciting local co-op that tests your renovation and teamwork skills. Paint walls, tear off wallpaper, and move couches against the clock!

Why similar: Multiplayer 34.7%, Co-op 25.5%, Simulation 20.3%, Action 10.9%, Adventure 8.6%

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: Underwater 44.1% ★, Loot 16.9%, Roguelite 15.4%, Roguelike 12.3%, 2D 5.1%

Cepheus Protocol is an Open World RTS Military Survival Game. Play as the CERC hunting Patient 0, maintain Quarantine camps, fight dangerous mutations & Rogue Civilian Combatants . There’s nobody else coming, it’s up to you now.

Why similar: Simulation 50.3%, Action 49.7%

Hello Neighbor Multiplayer. Secret Neighbor is a Multiplayer Social Horror Game where a group of intruders try to rescue their friend from the Neighbor's creepy basement. Only problem is one of the intruders is the Neighbor in disguise.

Why similar: Co-op 36.2%, Online Co-Op 29.4%, Multiplayer 24%, Adventure 5.2%, Action 5.2%

Become a fearless underwater explorer and reach the bottom of The Mariana Trench to win 20,000* REAL DOLLARS!

Why similar: Submarine 55% ★, Underwater 38.8% ★, Simulation 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation game that focuses on the technical aspects of submarine operation and underwater exploration.

Command the Nimbatus and craft drones out of hundreds of different parts. Survive unknown threats in a fully destructible, procedural universe, compete against other players in different arenas or enjoy complete creative freedom in the sandbox.

Why similar: Exploration 48.2%, Adventure 28.6%, Action 23.1%

Prepare your decks and go on a pilgrimage through the wasteland! Nowhere Prophet is a unique single-player card game. Travel across randomly generated maps and lead your followers in deep tactical combat. Discover new cards and build your deck as you explore this strange, broken world.

Why similar: Roguelike 44.6%, Roguelite 40.3%, 2D 15.1%

An action roguelike co-op dungeon crawler set in a lovecraftian universe.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 43.6%, Roguelite 17.1%, Co-op 16.3%, PvE 12.9%, Exploration 6.6%

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: Team-Based 28.3%, Co-op 22.2%, Submarine 19.2% ★, Multiplayer 10.6%, Underwater 9.2% ★

DAVE THE DIVER is a casual, singleplayer adventure RPG featuring deep-sea exploration and fishing during the day and sushi restaurant management at night. Join Dave and his quirky friends as they seek to uncover the secrets of the mysterious Blue Hole.

Why similar: Underwater 54.6% ★, Roguelite 15.1%, Exploration 9.8%, Simulation 8%, 2D 5%

Build a mobile village and travel with your tribe toward the center of the world, called The Eye. This roguelike turn-based resource-management game is made of procedural situations, natural events, skill-trees and hard choices. Ready to move?

Why similar: Roguelike 100%

Fling to the Finish is a cooperative racing game where teammates are tethered together by a stretchy elastic rope. Get up close and personal with your partner to maneuver two characters bouncing, rolling, and flinging their way to the finish line!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 51%, Multiplayer 38.4%, Action 10.6%

A strategy game combining the turn-based combat of XCOM with the world exploration of HOMM. Build towns, collect artifacts, improve your heroes, and influence your tactical surroundings using physics!

Why similar: Co-op 60.2%, Multiplayer 30.9%, Adventure 8.9%

Manage a Dwarven mining colony in the unexplored mountains of Mara. As conflict rages in the Overworld, you will need to craft, explore and fight as you provide the allies of your choice with the finest weapons and gear to assist them in the battle for glory.

Why similar: Simulation 55.6%, Exploration 44.4%

Kill It With Fire is a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage.

Why similar: Co-op 54.7%, Simulation 28.7%, Action 16.6%

Cave Crawlers is a 1-10 player rogue lite set deep underground in a system of randomly generated caves. Players use weapons, spells, and talents to defeat the unique bosses and enemies found in each biome.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 32.2%, PvE 26%, Multiplayer 25.2%, Action 8.9%, Adventure 7.7%

Lovecraft’s Untold Stories is an action roguelite with RPG elements. Explore randomly generated levels based in Lovecraft's stories, fight cultists and all kinds of monsters from the Mythos, improve your gear, solve puzzles, and find clues and knowledge to defeat the Great Old Ones.

Why similar: Lovecraftian 66.1%, Roguelite 18.6%, Action 5.3%, Adventure 4.3%, Roguelike 3.4%

Sequel to the best-seller ​The Red Solstice​. Plan your strategy and infiltrate a real-time tactical battlefield - alone or with up to 7 squad members. Can you demonstrate the combat prowess to survive and secure a future for humanity?

Why similar: Team-Based 38%, Co-op 25.5%, Online Co-Op 18.3%, Multiplayer 18.2%

ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery) is one of the most successful roguelike games ever created, boasting a brilliant mix of story, RPG, exploration, and intensely strategic & flexible combat. The Steam version adds various features like achievements, difficulty level customization & play modes.

Why similar: Roguelike 70.3%, 2D 20.5%, Adventure 9.2%

It’s co-op space survival fun, Jim, but not as we know it. This Means Warp is an intense spaceship management roguelite experience for 1-4 players. Explore a procedurally generated universe, upgrade your ship, battle dangerous enemies and adapt your strategies to survive in a hostile galaxy.

Why similar: Co-op 27.2%, Online Co-Op 21.8%, Roguelite 19.3%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Roguelike 12.7%

Avoid your watery grave in this asymmetrical co-op horror game where you and a friend take the roles of a submarine Pilot and Mechanic. Work together to repair the ship, solve puzzles, avoid a deadly creature, and make it back to the surface before time runs out! It's time to Sync or Swim

Why similar: Submarine 51% ★, Underwater 33.7% ★, Co-op 7%, Simulation 3.7%, Multiplayer 2.6%

Dash and dodge bullet clusters in nerve-wracking slow motion moments and challenge your friends online or offline to awesome and fast paced battles with up to 4 players!

Why similar: Co-op 39.3%, Online Co-Op 31.6%, Multiplayer 23.8%, Action 5.2%

Röki is a stunning adventure set in the snowcapped wilderness. As Tove, you must explore an uncharted world of hidden legends and forgotten monsters. Solve puzzles, collect curiosities, and uncover a tale of tragic loss, as you chart your path to redemption.

Why similar: Adventure 64.8%, Exploration 35.2%

Who's Your Daddy is a casual multiplayer game featuring a clueless father attempting to prevent his infant son from certain death. Play with up to 7 of your friends, and test your parenting skills in a competitive setup with wacky physics and over 67 potentially ominous household items.

Why similar: Multiplayer 33.9%, Co-op 25.5%, Online Co-Op 23.2%, Simulation 11.1%, Action 3.6%

Moving Out is a ridiculous physics-based moving simulator that brings new meaning to "couch co-op"! Are you ready for an exciting career in furniture? As a newly certified Furniture Arrangement & Relocation Technician, you’ll take on moving jobs all across the busy town of Packmore.

Why similar: Co-op 41.3%, Simulation 24.7%, Multiplayer 19.6%, Action 14.4%

Midnight Protocol is a tactical narrative-driven RPG with unique keyboard-only controls. Hack into servers, beat security systems and discover encrypted secrets while you try to find answers to why and how you got doxxed.

Why similar: Action 100%

Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?

Why similar: Co-op 32.4%, Multiplayer 26.3%, Online Co-Op 25.3%, Simulation 7%, 2D 6.8%

Neon lights, palm trees, synthwave, '80s supercars speeding down an endless highway... Welcome to the world of Retrowave!

Why similar: Simulation 64.7%, Action 35.3%

Heroes of Hammerwatch is a rogue-lite action-adventure. Explore and battle your way through procedurally generated levels on your own or with up to 3 friends.

Why similar: Co-op 30.9%, Roguelite 30.4%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Online Co-Op 13%, Roguelike 4.2%

Trash Sailors is a hand-drawn co-op sailing adventure for one to four players. Create the trashiest team in history, in online or local co-op and find your way in the aftermath of a great trash tsunami.

Why similar: Co-op 30.4%, Online Co-Op 30.2%, Cartoon 16.7%, Multiplayer 15.9%, Action 6.7%

Solo or CO-OP with friends, survive the siege and keep your vessel afloat in “SHARK SIEGE - TOGETHER SURVIVAL” where the deep blue sea is your adversary, and courage is your strongest ally. Join the voyage, if you dare!

Why similar: Co-op 34.2%, Online Co-Op 24.5%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Simulation 10.1%, Exploration 9.1%