Games like We Need To Go Deeper
If We Need To Go Deeper is your kind of game, the closest matches are Abyss Crew, Remnants of R'lyeh and Barotrauma — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its chaotic unpredictable gameplay, tactical positioning matters and challenging. 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 →We Need To Go Deeper is a cooperative submarine roguelike released in 2019 by Deli Interactive LLC, set in a Verne-inspired undersea world. Players crew customizable submarines across procedurally generated dungeons, navigating depths while countering enemy strategies through tactical positioning and teamwork. The game supports 2-4 players online, with mechanics centered on submarine navigation, role differentiation, and adapting equipment to hostile environments. Reviewers highlight chaotic-unpredictable-gameplay and unique enemy designs that demand flexible strategies, while players describe the experience as immersive and challenging. Currently priced at $15.99 USD and marked playable on Steam Deck, the title holds an 86% positive rating from over 2,700 Steam reviews.
About We Need To Go Deeper: DIVE. DISCOVER. DIE. Crew a submarine with friends in We Need To Go Deeper - a 2-4-player cooperative submarine roguelike set in a Verne-inspired undersea universe.
Players who liked We Need To Go Deeper also play
Steam players who put hours into We Need To Go Deeper 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.
Abyss Crew
WHY THIS
Top pick for We Need To Go Deeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
Abyss Crew is a multiplayer coop game aboard a steampunk submarine. Each player is a member of the submarine crew - pilot, gunner, sonar, or engineer. Explore the abyss to find precious mineral - but beware, as sprawling menaces lurk in the darkness...
Remnants of R'lyeh
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for We Need To Go Deeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's Great Work. An ancient dark power is calling you and you need to find an exit. Face your greatest fear, fight, hide... you must escape before the underwater city rises...
Barotrauma
WHY THIS
Shares an immersive mood with We Need To Go Deeper.
Third-strongest match for We Need To Go Deeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!
Guns of Icarus Alliance
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with We Need To Go Deeper.
Ranked #4 for We Need To Go Deeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
Own the skies in steam-powered airships! Guns of Icarus Alliance is a team-based online game that pits co-op crews against both rival teams and an AI that learns your tactics. Players become part of the story as each battle shapes history in an ever-changing steampunk world.
Depth
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Ranked #5 for We Need To Go Deeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
Play as a shark or a diver in a dark aquatic world and overcome your enemies by employing cunning, teamwork, and stealth. Depth blends tension and visceral action as you team up against AI or be matched with other players in heart pounding combat.
IronWolf VR
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Shares an immersive mood with We Need To Go Deeper.
Ranked #6 for We Need To Go Deeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
IronWolf VR is a roomscale submarine game playable either singleplayer or online co-op with motion controls. Built from the ground up for VR, each part of the submarine has been crafted for an optimal VR experience.
Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with We Need To Go Deeper.
Ranked #7 for We Need To Go Deeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Guns of Icarus Online
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for We Need To Go Deeper fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
Assemble your crew, take to the skies in the premier PvP airship combat game. Guns of Icarus Online is all about flying massive airships, shooting big turret weapons, and working as a team for supremacy of the skies. Everyone as one, victory or death, together.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below We Need To Go Deeper at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~69% under We Need To Go Deeper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with We Need To Go Deeper.
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
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Priced ~69% under We Need To Go Deeper on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
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 ~56% under We Need To Go Deeper on Steam right now. Shares Action with We Need To Go Deeper.
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.
PEAK
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Priced ~50% under We Need To Go Deeper on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~72% under We Need To Go Deeper on Steam right now. Shares Action with We Need To Go Deeper.
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.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~61% under We Need To Go Deeper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under We Need To Go Deeper on Steam right now. Shares Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~69% under We Need To Go Deeper on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with We Need To Go Deeper.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with We Need To Go Deeper.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with We Need To Go Deeper.
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.).
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Cube Escape: Paradox
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with We Need To Go Deeper.
The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with We Need To Go Deeper.
『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.
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Frequently asked about We Need To Go Deeper
- Does We Need To Go Deeper run on Steam Deck?
- We Need To Go Deeper 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 We Need To Go Deeper cost?
- We Need To Go Deeper is listed on Steam at 15.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does We Need To Go Deeper have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — We Need To Go Deeper supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to We Need To Go Deeper?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside We Need To Go Deeper are Abyss Crew, Remnants of R'lyeh, Barotrauma.
- Who developed We Need To Go Deeper?
- We Need To Go Deeper was developed by Deli Interactive LLC.
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