Games like Troubled Waters
If Troubled Waters is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deadly Nightmare, World horror story and Under Iron Water — 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 Troubled Waters: Explore an ocean of horror and memories in search of the cursed mirror in the abyss. Collect loot to upgrade your equipment, avoid malevolent entities and make sure you have enough rope to resurface safely.
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Steam players who put hours into Troubled Waters 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.
Deadly Nightmare
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Top pick for Troubled Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Troubled Waters.
Deadly Nightmare is an exciting and engaging Horror/Survival game where you play the role of a boy living in a big manor. You need to use all the tools at your disposal in order to explore the world, find mysteries and explore a variety of challenging, scary and supernatural locations.
World horror story
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Troubled Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Troubled Waters.
World Horror Story is a cooperative survival horror game where you need to banish evil before it destroys you. In the game, you can communicate with ghosts and demons using your voice, but be careful; if ghosts respond, it doesn't mean they are friendly.
Under Iron Water
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Troubled Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Troubled Waters.
A first person adventure game with light platforming elements. On an island, somewhere in the ocean, a powerful creature has been captured but is slowly gaining power. It sends it's minions across the island to spread it's influence, one such location being the old village crypt, where you awaken.
Hamster Hunter
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Ranked #4 for Troubled Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Troubled Waters.
You come home for an annual family reunion, only to find your family missing with an eerie note left by your father. After you discover what has happened you SEEK REVENGE!
Funi Raccoon Game
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Ranked #5 for Troubled Waters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Troubled Waters.
Explore a series of whimsical, interconnected worlds to steal everything not nailed down. Make a garbage bin a garbage home :)
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Troubled Waters at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~83% under Troubled Waters on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Troubled Waters.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~50% under Troubled Waters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Troubled Waters.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
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Priced ~67% under Troubled Waters on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Troubled Waters.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~75% under Troubled Waters on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Troubled Waters.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~83% under Troubled Waters on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with Troubled Waters.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
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Priced ~50% under Troubled Waters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Troubled Waters.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
Super Hexagon
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Priced ~50% under Troubled Waters on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Troubled Waters.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~67% under Troubled Waters on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Troubled Waters.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
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 and Casual with Troubled Waters.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Troubled Waters.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Troubled Waters.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Troubled Waters.
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 Troubled Waters.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Troubled Waters.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Troubled Waters.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about Troubled Waters
- How much does Troubled Waters cost?
- Troubled Waters is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Troubled Waters?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Troubled Waters are Deadly Nightmare, World horror story, Under Iron Water.
- Who developed Troubled Waters?
- Troubled Waters was developed by BaleYc Studios.
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 Troubled Waters.
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