Games like Down the Drain
If Down the Drain is your kind of game, the closest matches are Crab Crawl, Kraken's Canvas and Boomerang Battles — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Down the Drain: Take a trip below the sink with Marta in this top-down 2D shooter through randomly generated mazes of pipes. Defeat gooey enemies, overcome strong bosses, and learn what's really going on when trouble starts brewing beneath our tubs and under our streets.
Players who liked Down the Drain also play
Steam players who put hours into Down the Drain 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.
Crab Crawl
WHY THIS
Top pick for Down the Drain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Down the Drain.
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.
Kraken's Canvas
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Down the Drain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Down the Drain.
Experience the ocean through a child's eyes to confront the legendary Kraken in this amazing hand-drawn adventure.
Boomerang Battles
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Down the Drain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Down the Drain.
Boomerang Battles is a fast paced action roguelike where you battle your way through 100 floors of a deadly dungeon with your trusty boomerang in a bid for your freedom. Pick your favourite boomerang, learn its attack patterns, find upgrades, and battle against exciting bosses. Escape if you can.
Cuisineer
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Down the Drain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Down the Drain.
A super cute and tasty roguelite-flavored dungeon crawler! Explore a lush world and defeat monsters with your trusty spatula and some boba tea, then gather delicious ingredients and bring them home to cook and serve at your restaurant!
SALTWATER
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Down the Drain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Down the Drain.
Play as a pistol shrimp and survive waves of enemies while collecting pearls from oysters scattered throughout the map.
Gloctopus
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Down the Drain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Down the Drain.
Eight guns is better than one — if you have eight arms. Gloctopus is a bullet heaven roguelike where you equip, mutate, and build your tentacles into a one-octopus army. The ocean didn't stand a chance.
Underwater Life
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Down the Drain fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Down the Drain.
Underwater Life is an indie simulator game made in 2D graphics with pleasant musical accompaniment.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Down the Drain at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Down the Drain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Down the Drain.
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 Down the Drain on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Down the Drain.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Down the Drain on Steam right now. Shares Action with Down the Drain.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Down the Drain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Down the Drain.
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 Down the Drain on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Down the Drain.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Down the Drain on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Down the Drain.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Down the Drain on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Down the Drain.
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 Down the Drain on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Down the Drain.
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.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Down the Drain.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Down the Drain.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Down the Drain.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Down the Drain.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Down the Drain.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Down the Drain.
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 Down the Drain.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Down the Drain
- How much does Down the Drain cost?
- Down the Drain is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Down the Drain?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Down the Drain are Crab Crawl, Kraken's Canvas, Boomerang Battles.
- Who developed Down the Drain?
- Down the Drain was developed by Cubicorn Games.
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 Down the Drain.
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