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Games like How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine

If How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine is your kind of game, the closest matches are How 2 Escape, Time Handlers and The Grizzled: Armistice Digital — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its asymmetric roles feel essential, atmospheric and immersive. 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 How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine: Team up with a friend to reach a lost submarine and prevent the outbreak of war. Work together on two devices to solve increasingly challenging puzzles, where each of you has your own unique role to play. 2 players: 1 buys the game, the other uses the free Companion App

2025IndieAdventureSimulationCasual12.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindowsby Breakfirst Games
How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine — Steam game cover
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7 chapters of escalating challengesAsymmetric roles feel essentialCommunication is the core mechanicAtmosphericImmersiveIntense

Players who liked How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine also play

Steam players who put hours into How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine 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. How 2 Escape

    WHY THIS

    Shares asymmetric co op, time pressure, co op multiplayer and a tense mood with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Top pick for How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    How 2 Escape is an escape-simulation game where two players will need to cooperate on asymmetrical gameplay and devices. "Talk together. Help each other." will be your new motto to survive in How 2 Escape.

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Time Handlers

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Time Handlers is a 2-player cooperative puzzle game where you play as 2 employees of the Time Company tasked to repair the spatio-temporal rifts caused by a mysterious tower. Face baffling and exciting challenges to progress through the various levels of the rift that threatens time.

    2024IndieAdventure13.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Grizzled: Armistice Digital

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Try to survive the trenches as a team during the evolving nightmare of WW1 in this award-winning cooperative card game!

    2022IndieCasual6.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Mad Experiments: Escape Room

    WHY THIS

    Shares co op multiplayer and an atmospheric mood with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Ranked #4 for How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Award-nominated escape game. Alone or with up to 5 players, explore 3 unique rooms, solve mind-bending puzzles, and unravel the dark secrets of the Professor Cheshire and his experiments.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist

    WHY THIS

    Shares environmental puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Ranked #5 for How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    "Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist" is a co-operative atmospheric reverse escape-room puzzle game. You are a master thief who has been hired to rob a mysterious mansion, filled with various puzzles. Do you think you have what it takes to conquer the challenges that await you in the mansion.

    2022IndieAdventureCasual7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. We Were Here Together

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Ranked #6 for How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    As we explore these frozen wastes, misfortune strikes once again. Through the fierce blizzard, a flare lights the sky, followed by a cry for help over the radio - broken, dying... No one else can come to their rescue. Can we make it back - together?

    2019IndieAdventureCasual12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Get Together: A Coop Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Two lost beings and you are the only bond... Play with a friend to guide and reunite them on their journey in this communication-based coop puzzle adventure. You play on two devices with no connection except your voice!

    2021IndieAdventureCasual10.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. We Were Here Too

    WHY THIS

    Shares puzzle solving and an atmospheric mood with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Ranked #8 for How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    As your final hour approaches, a large structure looms up in the distance, towering above the relentless storm. Discover the truth behind this dark castle in a communication-based, cooperative puzzle adventure.

    2018IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    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 ~62% under How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    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. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~52% under How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~62% under How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    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 ~62% under How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~92% under How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    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. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~77% under How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

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

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. OneShot

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~54% under How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    OneShot is a surreal top down Puzzle/Adventure game with unique gameplay capabilities. You are to guide a child through a mysterious world on a mission to restore its long-dead sun. The world knows you exist.

    2016IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. 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 Simulation with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. 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 How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    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. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. 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 ↗
  8. An Arcade Full of Cats

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Mad Experiments: Escape Room

    WHY THIS

    Shares co op multiplayer and an atmospheric mood with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Award-nominated escape game. Alone or with up to 5 players, explore 3 unique rooms, solve mind-bending puzzles, and unravel the dark secrets of the Professor Cheshire and his experiments.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. We Were Here Together

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    As we explore these frozen wastes, misfortune strikes once again. Through the fierce blizzard, a flare lights the sky, followed by a cry for help over the radio - broken, dying... No one else can come to their rescue. Can we make it back - together?

    2019IndieAdventureCasual12.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Get Together: A Coop Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine.

    Two lost beings and you are the only bond... Play with a friend to guide and reunite them on their journey in this communication-based coop puzzle adventure. You play on two devices with no connection except your voice!

    2021IndieAdventureCasual10.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine

Is How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine cost?
How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine are How 2 Escape, Time Handlers, The Grizzled: Armistice Digital.
Who developed How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine?
How 2 Escape: Lost Submarine was developed by Breakfirst Games and published by Maximum Entertainment, Breakfirst Games.

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