Games like Water is Heavy
If Water is Heavy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Abyssalis, Wish Of Hers and Underwater DuO — 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 Water is Heavy: Become an ordinary fish beginning a blind descent into the abyss. In this 3D marine roguelite, master bubble attacks and combine diverse skills and powerful items to survive the deep sea's crushing pressure. At the end of the harsh abyss, what belief will you ultimately forge?
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Abyssalis
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Top pick for Water is Heavy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Water is Heavy.
Descend through the ocean layers, purify marine life, and survive the abyss in this bullet hell roguelite. Face colossal bosses, choose powerful upgrades, and uncover the curse's origin. Can you save the ocean before you become fish bait?
Wish Of Hers
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Second-strongest match for Water is Heavy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Water is Heavy.
Wish of Hers is a round-based 2.5D roguelike about surviving in unstable dreams. Each run is shaped by unlocked abilities, combined aspects, and your decisions. Experiment, adapt, and break your own builds!
Underwater DuO
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Third-strongest match for Water is Heavy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Water is Heavy.
In Underwater Duo, control a smashing turtle with your left hand and a blasting jellyfish with your right! Fight off waves of fierce fish, grow stronger, and see if your two hands can conquer the deep… or team up with a perfectly in-sync partner.
PengPong
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Ranked #4 for Water is Heavy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Water is Heavy.
PengPong is a bullet-hell roguelike where pinball meets gambling. Bounce your way through chaos and bet it all to survive.
Nocturnal Throne
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Ranked #5 for Water is Heavy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Water is Heavy.
Time is difficulty. The longer you play, the harder it gets. Collect 100s of items to secure your build and obliterate anything that crosses your path in Nocturnal Throne. There are no limits in this rogue-lite.
Zombie Rollerz: The Last Ship
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Ranked #6 for Water is Heavy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Water is Heavy.
Build turrets, lead your crew, and upgrade the ship while gathering loot in this exciting "Tower Defense-on-wheels zombie survival roguelite" game.
CICADA
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Ranked #7 for Water is Heavy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Water is Heavy.
This game is a roguelite simulation action title, where you play as a single cicada striving to survive the summer in the Japanese countryside.
Shard Squad
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Ranked #8 for Water is Heavy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Water is Heavy.
Form a squad of elemental creatures and face hordes of challenging enemies! Choose your Shards according to their synergies to gain new abilities, and equip relics that will make the winds blow in your favor! Survive through different environments and save your lands!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Water is Heavy.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Water is Heavy.
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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Water is Heavy.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Water is Heavy.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Water is Heavy.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Water is Heavy.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Water is Heavy.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Water is Heavy.
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.
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Frequently asked about Water is Heavy
- What games are most similar to Water is Heavy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Water is Heavy are Abyssalis, Wish Of Hers, Underwater DuO.
- Who developed Water is Heavy?
- Water is Heavy was developed by Dryroad.
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 Water is Heavy.
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