Games like Drowned Lake
If Drowned Lake is your kind of game, the closest matches are DREDGE, UMIGARI | ウミガリ and The Alien Cube — 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 Drowned Lake: When Bento, an amateur documentarian vanishes, three strangers are drawn to the Drowned Lake to find him. As the lake’s dark past comes to light, so do the secrets buried deep within them. Explore, survive, and investigate the dark waters in this fishing survival horror game.
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Steam players who put hours into Drowned Lake 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.
DREDGE
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Top pick for Drowned Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Drowned Lake.
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.
UMIGARI | ウミガリ
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Drowned Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drowned Lake.
UMIGARI is a first-person harpoon fishing game set in the foggy waters off the coast of Japan. Hunt fish with your harpoon, sell your catch, buy fuel, and upgrade your gear. Alone at sea, the more you explore, the stranger the fish become.
The Alien Cube
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Third-strongest match for Drowned Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drowned Lake.
A cursed legacy awakens something ancient, revealing a terrifying reality never meant for human eyes. Follow your missing uncle’s trail, uncover forbidden secrets, and face a Lovecraftian cosmic horror in this first‑person adventure.
The Coma 3: Bloodlines
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Ranked #4 for Drowned Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drowned Lake.
Welcome to the world of The Coma 3: Bloodlines. In this realm of shadows rumors and urban legends become reality, and danger lurks around every corner. If a living intruder dies here, their body will be severed from their spirit and never wake again ...
SOMA
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Ranked #5 for Drowned Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drowned Lake.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Lamentum
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Ranked #6 for Drowned Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drowned Lake.
Lamentum is a pixel art survival horror game, set in New England in the mid-nineteenth century.
Darkwood
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Drowned Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Drowned Lake.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Dead of Darkness
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Ranked #8 for Drowned Lake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drowned Lake.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
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 Drowned Lake.
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 Adventure with Drowned Lake.
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 Drowned Lake.
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 Drowned Lake.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Drowned Lake.
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 Indie and Adventure with Drowned Lake.
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 Drowned Lake.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
DREDGE
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Drowned Lake.
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.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drowned Lake.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Darkwood
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Drowned Lake.
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
Dead of Darkness
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Drowned Lake.
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
Frequently asked about Drowned Lake
- What games are most similar to Drowned Lake?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Drowned Lake are DREDGE, UMIGARI | ウミガリ, The Alien Cube.
- Who developed Drowned Lake?
- Drowned Lake was developed by Monumental Collab and published by CRITICAL REFLEX.
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