Games like Surviving the Abyss
If Surviving the Abyss is your kind of game, the closest matches are Aquatico, Surviving the Aftermath and Worshippers of Cthulhu — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and mysterious. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Surviving the Abyss: Earth, 1976. You have been tasked with managing a deep-sea science facility working to perfect cloning. Explore the darkness and keep your crew alive in this hardcore survival colony builder. And beware. The darkness hides untold horrors.
Players who liked Surviving the Abyss also play
Steam players who put hours into Surviving the Abyss also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Aquatico
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving the Abyss.
Top pick for Surviving the Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Abyss.
Aquatico is a classic city builder set within the depths of the sea. Strategically build an underwater colony atop the ocean floor and face the challenges that accompany oceanic life.
Surviving the Aftermath
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving the Abyss.
Second-strongest match for Surviving the Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Abyss.
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Worshippers of Cthulhu
WHY THIS
Shares crew management and an atmospheric mood with Surviving the Abyss.
Third-strongest match for Surviving the Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Abyss.
LEAD the CULT OF CTHULHU. Decide the fate of your followers, perform eldritch rituals, and master the art of city-building in a world where the line between sanity and madness blurs. Can you endure the horrors you unleash?
Endzone - A World Apart
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving the Abyss.
Ranked #4 for Surviving the Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Surviving the Abyss.
Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.
Endzone 2
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving the Abyss.
Ranked #5 for Surviving the Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Abyss.
Endzone 2 is a post-apocalyptic survival colony builder, where you embark to secure humanity's survival after a cataclysmic disaster. Discover and repopulate the last habitable grounds, while the survival of your people hinges on your wits, foresight, and resilience in a harsh and unforgiving world.
Infection Free Zone
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving the Abyss.
Ranked #6 for Surviving the Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Surviving the Abyss.
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
IXION
WHY THIS
Shares a tense mood with Surviving the Abyss.
Ranked #7 for Surviving the Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Surviving the Abyss.
IXION is an unrelenting, city-building odyssey across the stars. As Administrator of the Tiqqun, DOLOS’ prototype space station, you are tasked with balancing preservation and exploration as you manage infrastructure, resources and crew. Can you keep the flame of humanity alight in the cold dark?
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving the Abyss.
Ranked #8 for Surviving the Abyss fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Abyss.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Reviewers mention these as similar to Surviving the Abyss
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Oxygen Not Included
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Surviving the Abyss.
Reviewers of Surviving the Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Simulation with Surviving the Abyss.
Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.
Surviving Mars
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Surviving the Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Abyss.
There will be challenges to overcome. Execute your strategy and improve your colony’s chances of survival while unlocking the mysteries of this alien world. Are you ready? Mars is waiting for you.
Frostpunk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving the Abyss.
Reviewers of Surviving the Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Abyss.
Frostpunk is the first society survival game. As the ruler of the last city on Earth, it is your duty to manage both its citizens and infrastructure. What decisions will you make to ensure your society's survival? What will you do when pushed to breaking point? Who will you become in the process?
Surviving the Aftermath
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Surviving the Abyss.
Reviewers of Surviving the Abyss cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Surviving the Abyss.
Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Surviving the Abyss at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving the Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Surviving the Abyss.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving the Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Surviving the Abyss.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving the Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Surviving the Abyss.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving the Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Surviving the Abyss.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Surviving the Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Surviving the Abyss.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving the Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Surviving the Abyss.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Surviving the Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Surviving the Abyss.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Surviving the Abyss on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Surviving the Abyss.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Surviving the Abyss.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Surviving the Abyss.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Surviving the Abyss.
Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Surviving the Abyss.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Surviving the Abyss.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Surviving the Abyss.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Surviving the Abyss.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
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Frequently asked about Surviving the Abyss
- Does Surviving the Abyss run on Steam Deck?
- Surviving the Abyss is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Surviving the Abyss cost?
- Surviving the Abyss is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Surviving the Abyss?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Surviving the Abyss are Aquatico, Surviving the Aftermath, Worshippers of Cthulhu.
- Who developed Surviving the Abyss?
- Surviving the Abyss was developed by Rocket Flair Studios and published by Paradox Arc.
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