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Games like Sunken Engine

If Sunken Engine is your kind of game, the closest matches are Self-Isolation, Thanks for the Soup and Do No Harm — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fishing alongside main gameplay, atmospheric 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.

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About Sunken Engine: Sunken Engine Lovecraftian Ship Repair Simulation. Restore your father’s old shipyard. Each arriving ship carries a dark mystery to be solved. Keep your customers satisfied while dealing with the strange and eerie happenings on the island.

2025IndieAdventureSimulationEarly Access9.99 USDDeck PlayableWindowsby Two Nomads Studio
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Blending relaxation with subtle dreadExplore a lovecraftian atmosphere with cryptic loreFishing alongside main gameplayAtmosphericChallengingCozy

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Steam players who put hours into Sunken Engine 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. Self-Isolation

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Sunken Engine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sunken Engine.

    This game is a simulation of self-isolation. You need to support your family, not to lose your job and finally not to go crazy.

    2020ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Thanks for the Soup

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Sunken Engine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sunken Engine.

    The job's simple: Go around town and satisfy your customers with some nice and hot soup. Hop on your bicycle and go around town, make some money, buy items, take care of your cat, and much more in this immersive horror simulator.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Do No Harm

    WHY THIS

    Shares time management, hidden collectibles and atmospheric with Sunken Engine.

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

    Lovecraftian Doctor Simulator. Diagnose patients by analyzing unsettling symptoms and treat them using your Book of Medicine. Make moral choices — decide who to save or kill, discover whom to trust, and unlock multiple endings! Can you endure 30 days of perilous decisions?

    2025Simulation15.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Coffee For Cthulhu

    WHY THIS

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

    Coffee For Cthulhu is a Lovecraftian Comfy Coffee Shop Simulator. During the day, you serve customers, brew coffee, and keep the various coffee machines from exploding or attacking customers.

    2024IndieAdventureSimulation2.49 USDSteam ↗
  5. Expedition to Madness

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Sunken Engine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sunken Engine.

    1–4 player co-op Lovecraftian horror. Investigate paranormal phenomena across unstable dimensions, identify the entity haunting each world, extract primordial energy and escape before the wormhole collapses.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. The Patient

    WHY THIS

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

    Dr. Ellen Reed returns to work as a therapist only to discover an inpatient has been mistakenly dosed with a deadly mutative drug. With hospital records erased due to a power outage, she must work overnight to identify and discreetly euthanize the affected patient before it's too late.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Bedtime:turn off the life

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Sunken Engine fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sunken Engine.

    This is a third-person horror game combining 8 Ban, rule-based ghost stories, and children's themes. It is said breaking the seventh-day taboos lets you see ghosts. To see the departed, you believe the rumor. As time passes, the house in your memory grows eerier... Is there a... head here? Right?

    2024IndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Small Shop

    WHY THIS

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

    Run your own small shop!

    2022StrategyIndieSimulation9.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Sunken Engine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunken Engine.

    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 ~50% under Sunken Engine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sunken Engine.

    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. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Sunken Engine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunken Engine.

    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 ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Sunken Engine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sunken Engine.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Sunken Engine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Sunken Engine.

    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 ↗
  6. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Sunken Engine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunken Engine.

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

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Sunken Engine on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Sunken Engine.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Sunken Engine on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Sunken Engine.

    Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.

    2023ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  4. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. 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 Sunken Engine.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 Sunken Engine.

    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 ↗
  7. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

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

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Sunken Engine

Does Sunken Engine run on Steam Deck?
Sunken Engine 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 Sunken Engine cost?
Sunken Engine is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Sunken Engine?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Sunken Engine are Self-Isolation, Thanks for the Soup, Do No Harm.
Who developed Sunken Engine?
Sunken Engine was developed by Two Nomads Studio and published by PlayWay S.A..

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