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Games like Sunken Veins

If Sunken Veins is your kind of game, the closest matches are Submeris, Barotrauma and DepthWake — 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.

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About Sunken Veins: Sunken Veins is a resource management horror game set in a deep sea mining facility. You collect resources deposited by an underwater drill, avoid adaptive monsters and drain away overwhelming floods of water caused from mining operations.

2025ActionStrategyIndieSimulationEarly Access8.99 USDWindowsby Skedaddle Games
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Steam players who put hours into Sunken Veins 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.

  1. Submeris

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Sunken Veins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sunken Veins.

    Submeris is an underwater mining adventure set beneath a mysterious island. Dig, upgrade your gear, survive dangerous depths, and uncover the legendary treasure hidden far below the ocean floor!

    2025ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Barotrauma

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Sunken Veins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sunken Veins.

    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!

    2023ActionStrategyIndie17.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. DepthWake

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Sunken Veins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sunken Veins.

    Return to an Earth abandoned for over 500 years and explore its transformed oceans in search of vital resources. With supplies on humanity's new home world running dry, you must gather materials, build automated underwater operations, and uncover the secrets that now lie beneath the waves.

    StrategyAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  4. Hadal

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Sunken Veins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunken Veins.

    Guide a Nereid Freight submarine crew through Europa’s hostile under-ice oceans. Deliver essential cargo, salvage wrecks, repair failing stations, hunt dangerous lifeforms, and survive in the crushing darkness where every dive carries risk — and nothing stays quiet for long.

    2026IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗
  5. Darkwater

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Sunken Veins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Sunken Veins.

    Darkwater is a cooperative extraction horror game for 1-4 players. Command a submarine trapped under the ice of an alien planet. Battle enemy vessels and deep sea abominations as you hunt for resources. Do what it takes to survive.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Weldiver

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Sunken Veins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Sunken Veins.

    I chose the most dangerous job in the world. Not because I wanted to, but because someone has to. I’m an Underwater Welder. One meter down – one percent less chance to survive. I live on the edge of life and death. It's not just a job. It's a life... a battle... a fight for survival.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Search for the Titanic

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Sunken Veins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Sunken Veins.

    As an inexperienced oceanographer, you must build your skills, reputation, crew, and resources along your journey to mount an expedition to find the lost Titanic. Experience the challenges, dangers and excitement of scientific underwater exploration!

    2021StrategySimulation4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. ABYSS - 9

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Sunken Veins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunken Veins.

    In the year 5026, you are a disposable miner sent to the bottom of the ocean on the ABYSS-9 expedition. Pilot your 'iron coffin', manage unstable vital systems, and survive uncharted abyssal creatures. In the abyss, silence is as dangerous as the pressure.

    IndieAdventureSimulationSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Sunken Veins at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Sunken Veins on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunken Veins.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Sunken Veins on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sunken Veins.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Sunken Veins on Steam right now. Shares Action with Sunken Veins.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Sunken Veins on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Sunken Veins.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Sunken Veins on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sunken Veins.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~89% under Sunken Veins on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sunken Veins.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~44% under Sunken Veins on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Sunken Veins.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Sunken Veins on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Sunken Veins.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Sunken Veins.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sunken Veins.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. 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 Sunken Veins.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sunken Veins.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sunken Veins.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Sunken Veins.

    Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Simulation with Sunken Veins.

    『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.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Sunken Veins

How much does Sunken Veins cost?
Sunken Veins is listed on Steam at 8.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Sunken Veins?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sunken Veins are Submeris, Barotrauma, DepthWake.
Who developed Sunken Veins?
Sunken Veins was developed by Skedaddle 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 Sunken Veins.

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