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Games like Benthos

If Benthos is your kind of game, the closest matches are ApesCape, Deeper and Barotrauma — 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.

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About Benthos: Benthos is a co-op submarine exploration game set in the depths of an alien ocean. Coordinate your crew to pilot the sub, man the guns, hunt monsters, and complete high-risk missions. Build new underwater facilities, upgrade your vessel, and uncover the secrets hidden beneath the ice.

ActionIndieAdventureSimulationEarly AccessWindowsby Doodlefish Games
Benthos — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Benthos 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. ApesCape

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Benthos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Benthos.

    In a deep-sea station lost at the bottom of the ocean, the pressure is rising and water is flooding the facility. In this cooperative FPS, every second counts. Work together to find the exit before everything is swallowed by the depths.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Deeper

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Benthos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Benthos.

    Go on expeditions with your friends to explore the depths in search of treasures, upgrade your gear, and dive back in deeper.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  3. Barotrauma

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Benthos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Benthos.

    Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

    2023ActionStrategyIndie17.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. VOID CRAWLER

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Benthos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Benthos.

    Void Crawler is a horror game set in a dystopian future, where you pilot a vehicle nicknamed 'The Mole' into a mysterious void deep within the Earth to collect an extremely valuable material for a company dedicated to solving the world's energy crisis.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Sunken Veins

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Benthos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Benthos.

    Sunken Veins is a resource management horror game set in a deep sea mining facility. You collect resources deposited by an underwater drill, avoid adaptive monsters and drain away overwhelming floods of water caused from mining operations.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie8.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Refuge

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Benthos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Benthos.

    Serve the A.R.C organization. Infiltrate infested zones, complete contracts, and extract with your resources. Upgrade your facilities and complete quests to unlock new services. An intense PvE extraction where the difficulty increases with your ambitions.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. COLD DEPTH

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Benthos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Benthos.

    COLD DEPTH is a first-person exploration survival horror game set on the "Oasis" underwater complex. Whether you survive or not depends on finding, recycling and 3D printing items and supplying energy to the right parts of the stations.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Mafia Life Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Benthos fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Benthos.

    Build your own empire in the world of the mafia! In Mafia Life Simulator, take control of everything from marijuana farms to weapon factories, money laundering centers to drug networks. Become the undisputed leader of the region with your gang and make your name known in the world of crime.

    ActionIndieSimulationSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  3. The Looker

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Counter-Strike:Global Offensive

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Benthos.

    Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).

    2012ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. 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 ↗
  7. 93, Kuindzhi

    WHY THIS

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

    Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.

    2026IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. DORONKO WANKO

    WHY THIS

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

    『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.

    2024ActionSimulationFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Benthos

Does Benthos have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Benthos supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Benthos?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Benthos are ApesCape, Deeper, Barotrauma.
Who developed Benthos?
Benthos was developed by Doodlefish Games.

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 Benthos.

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