Games like Highwater
If Highwater is your kind of game, the closest matches are Soar: Pillars of Tasneem, Miasma Chronicles and Blacken Slash — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its crew interactions add depth, atmospheric and chill. 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 Highwater: Earth has flooded and the planet is doomed, but there’s still time to enjoy the view. Guide Nikos and friends through the flooded world of Highwater and beyond in this story driven, adventure game where they’ll have to fight for their chance to escape.
Players who liked Highwater also play
Steam players who put hours into Highwater 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.
Soar: Pillars of Tasneem
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Top pick for Highwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Highwater.
Transform into a dragon and soar through a vast, beautiful new land above the clouds.
Miasma Chronicles
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Highwater.
Second-strongest match for Highwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Highwater.
From the creators of Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden comes a beautifully crafted tactical adventure you won’t forget. Embark on a quest across a post-apocalyptic wasteland torn apart by a savage force known only as the ‘Miasma’.
Blacken Slash
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Highwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Highwater.
Hack and slash through a corrupted retro computer system in this challenging roguelite with turn-based combat and tons of loot.
Chains of Freedom
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Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Highwater.
Ranked #4 for Highwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Highwater.
Embark on a thrilling journey in a high-stakes, turn-based tactics game. Lead an elite squad in a fictional, dystopian Eastern European country as you unravel a conspiracy threatening the state. Navigate intense strategic battles and adapt to ever-evolving challenges to prevail.
Cartographer
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Ranked #5 for Highwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Highwater.
Cartographer is a turn-based game, where you decide how the world map looks. Build the map to build the world! The combat system is very simple and each enemy has its own attack pattern, which you can learn and exploit to defeat them in glorious turn-based battle!
Potentia
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Highwater.
Ranked #6 for Highwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Highwater.
Third person shooter action adventure game with post-apocalyptic theme. Witness the adventures of Victor and his friends in this abandoned world.
Saghala: Heroes of the Last World
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Ranked #7 for Highwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Highwater.
2081. Earth, now known as Saghala, was destroyed by nuclear war and coronal mass ejections. Despite the devastation, humanity lingers on. Sixty years after the End, four factions vie for control of the Core, the last fusion reactor. Decide the fate of Saghala in a classic, top-down cRPG!
Howl
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Highwater.
Ranked #8 for Highwater fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Highwater.
Howl is a turn-based tactical folktale set in medieval times. A sinister "howling plague" has ravaged the land, turning all who hear it into feral beasts. You play a deaf heroine plunging into danger in search of a cure.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Highwater
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The Cub
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Highwater.
Reviewers of Highwater cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Highwater.
From the creators of Golf Club Nostalgia and Highwater. Return to their whimsical, neon-lit apocalypse in a Jungle Book meets The Armageddon fusion. Parkour through the remains of humanity as a child being hunted, while catchy end-of-days tunes and curious survivor stories play on the radio.
Submerged
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Highwater.
Reviewers of Highwater cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Highwater.
Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother to the city in their small fishing boat.
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified
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Reviewers of Highwater cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Highwater.
The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear. A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.
XCOM® 2
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Highwater.
Reviewers of Highwater cross-mention this title as a similar play.
XCOM 2 is the sequel to XCOM: Enemy Unknown, the 2012 award-winning strategy game of the year. Earth has changed and is now under alien rule. Facing impossible odds you must rebuild XCOM, and ignite a global resistance to reclaim our world and save humanity.
Golf Club Nostalgia
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Highwater.
Reviewers of Highwater cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Human life is wiped out. Earth is now a golf course for the ultra-rich. In this dystopian sports puzzler, play through destroyed brutalist monuments, crumbling shopping malls, and abandoned museums as you piece together the full story of how humanity fell.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Highwater at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Highwater on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Highwater.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Highwater on Steam right now. Shares Action with Highwater.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Highwater on Steam right now. Shares Action with Highwater.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Highwater on Steam right now. Shares Action with Highwater.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Highwater on Steam right now. Shares Action with Highwater.
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!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~65% under Highwater on Steam right now. Shares Action with Highwater.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Highwater.
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 Action with Highwater.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Highwater.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Highwater.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Highwater.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Highwater
- Does Highwater run on Steam Deck?
- Highwater 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 Highwater cost?
- Highwater is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Highwater?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Highwater are Soar: Pillars of Tasneem, Miasma Chronicles, Blacken Slash.
- Who developed Highwater?
- Highwater was developed by Demagog Studio and published by Rogue Games, Inc..
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 Highwater.
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