Games like Under The Waves
If Under The Waves is your kind of game, the closest matches are Europa One, Mermaid Tale and Sonorous | Deep Down Below — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its meditative underwater exploration, atmospheric and contemplative. 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 Under The Waves: 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...
Players who liked Under The Waves also play
Steam players who put hours into Under The Waves 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.
Europa One
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Top pick for Under The Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Under The Waves.
Explore the ice-encrusted ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa.
Mermaid Tale
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Second-strongest match for Under The Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Under The Waves.
Kaya wants to help her friend with her task. Only she can open secret passages for souls trapped in deep waters. But spirits from the dark depths are trying to stop the mermaids. Prepare an ancient magical ceremony with other mermaids in this little exploration game.
Sonorous | Deep Down Below
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Under The Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Under The Waves.
SONOROUS – Deep Down Below is an unforgiving underwater first-person survival game set in a dystopian world. Find your sunken research to save humanity from an eternal life on the open sea in a continuous fight for survival.
Fort Solis
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Under The Waves.
Ranked #4 for Under The Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Under The Waves.
Answer the call from a mining base on Mars as engineer Jack Leary and search for the missing crew. Fort Solis will immerse you with cinematic visuals powered by UE 5 and voice acting of Roger Clark and Troy Baker. Explore the mining complex and reach climax of this narrative thriller experience.
I Thalassa
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Ranked #5 for Under The Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Under The Waves.
Immerse yourself in an alien ocean in this open-world survival game. Explore the biomechanical depths, tame alien creatures, pilot submarines, and uncover the mysteries of the alien entity known as Thalassa.
AdventureSteam ↗Insiders
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Under The Waves.
Ranked #6 for Under The Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Under The Waves.
Welcome to the dangerous micro world hidden inside the human body. Pilot an advanced microship through the bloodstream, brain and kidneys. Mine resources, fight microbes, craft ship modules and weapons, build bases, discover new microorganisms and find a cure for cancer. Don’t get eaten!
Biolum
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Ranked #7 for Under The Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Under The Waves.
Biolum is a 30min VR sci-fi narrative experience. Dive to uncharted depths of the ocean and discover a beautiful world of bioluminescent creatures. But all is not what it seems. What lies beneath the surface?
Just a To the Moon Series Beach Episode
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Shares a melancholic mood with Under The Waves.
Ranked #8 for Under The Waves fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Under The Waves.
The Beach Episode™ of To the Moon, Finding Paradise, and Impostor Factory. But something's off.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Under The Waves at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Under The Waves on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Under The Waves.
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.
Stardew Valley
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Priced ~50% under Under The Waves on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Under The Waves.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
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Priced ~67% under Under The Waves on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Under The Waves.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Hollow Knight
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Priced ~50% under Under The Waves on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Under The Waves.
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.
People Playground
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Priced ~67% under Under The Waves on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Under The Waves.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Under The Waves.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Under The Waves.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Under The Waves.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Under The Waves.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Under The Waves.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Under The Waves.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Under The Waves.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Under The Waves.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Under The Waves
- Does Under The Waves work on Steam Deck?
- Under The Waves is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Under The Waves cost?
- Under The Waves is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Under The Waves?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Under The Waves are Europa One, Mermaid Tale, Sonorous | Deep Down Below.
- Who developed Under The Waves?
- Under The Waves was developed by Parallel Studio and published by Spotlight by Quantic Dream.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Under The Waves.
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