Games like Wavekin
If Wavekin is your kind of game, the closest matches are Phantom Path, Pronty and Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times — 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 Wavekin: Wavekin is a top-down contemplative metroidvania with no combat, in which you explore the ocean, discover its secrets, and sing to control creatures. You are a hatchling, tasked with finding out what happened to your species. Use your voice to open up the way, and restore balance to the ocean.
Players who liked Wavekin also play
Steam players who put hours into Wavekin 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.
Phantom Path
WHY THIS
Top pick for Wavekin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wavekin.
Explore the ruins of a lost ancient city, uncover the mystery of its esoteric technology, and claim its incredible treasure as your own.
Pronty
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Wavekin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wavekin.
Guide Pronty and its Javelin partner Bront as it defends the once great city of Royla. Explore the deep sea, fight mutant sea creatures, and discover the secrets behind this new Atlantis in this beautiful action-packed adventure.
Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Wavekin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Wavekin.
Create unique spells by combining magical runes to solve puzzles your way. Transform objects, manipulate time, and discover the mysteries of a world where everyone has vanished, leaving only 12 people behind. Every puzzle has multiple solutions - if you can imagine it, you can probably do it.
Buffet Knight - Decadent Full Course
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Wavekin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wavekin.
Eat everything. Grow stronger. Save the Gourmet Kingdom. A charming action-adventure where you devour foes, solve clever dungeon puzzles, and battle monstrous bosses in a whimsical, food-filled world. Find the five Divine Spices and save the Gourmet Kingdom from the Demon Chef!
Crystal Project
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Wavekin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wavekin.
Crystal Project is a non-linear JRPG where you are the maker of your own adventure. Explore the world while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a strategy capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or just stick to exploring; it's up to you.
Life is Strange: True Colors
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Wavekin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Wavekin.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Back to the Dawn
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Wavekin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wavekin.
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
Myst
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Wavekin fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wavekin.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Wavekin at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wavekin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wavekin.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wavekin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Wavekin.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wavekin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wavekin.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wavekin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Wavekin.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Wavekin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wavekin.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Wavekin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wavekin.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wavekin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Wavekin.
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.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Wavekin on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wavekin.
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.
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 Wavekin.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Wavekin.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Wavekin.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Wavekin.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wavekin.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Wavekin.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Wavekin.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Phantom Path
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wavekin.
Explore the ruins of a lost ancient city, uncover the mystery of its esoteric technology, and claim its incredible treasure as your own.
Pronty
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wavekin.
Guide Pronty and its Javelin partner Bront as it defends the once great city of Royla. Explore the deep sea, fight mutant sea creatures, and discover the secrets behind this new Atlantis in this beautiful action-packed adventure.
Buffet Knight - Decadent Full Course
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wavekin.
Eat everything. Grow stronger. Save the Gourmet Kingdom. A charming action-adventure where you devour foes, solve clever dungeon puzzles, and battle monstrous bosses in a whimsical, food-filled world. Find the five Divine Spices and save the Gourmet Kingdom from the Demon Chef!
Crystal Project
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wavekin.
Crystal Project is a non-linear JRPG where you are the maker of your own adventure. Explore the world while you find Crystals, unlock classes, learn abilities, and create a strategy capable of taking down the world's toughest bosses. Or just stick to exploring; it's up to you.
Life is Strange: True Colors
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Wavekin.
Alex Chen hides her 'curse': the psychic power of Empathy, the ability to absorb the emotions of others. When her brother dies in a so-called accident, Alex must embrace her power to find the truth.
Back to the Dawn
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wavekin.
Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.
Myst
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Wavekin.
Welcome to Myst: a starkly beautiful island, eerily tinged with mystery and shrouded in intrigue. Built from the ground up to play in 2D & VR, explore Myst in a whole new dimension! Journey to the Ages, unravel puzzles, and be a part of the surrealistic adventure that will become your own.
Frequently asked about Wavekin
- How much does Wavekin cost?
- Wavekin is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Wavekin?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Wavekin are Phantom Path, Pronty, Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times.
- Who developed Wavekin?
- Wavekin was developed by La Folie Studio.
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