An open-world underwater survival game. If the analogs of games in terms of survival is full of plenty, but it is the underwater theme is represented in video games very poorly. Nevertheless, I tried to find for you the best Subnautica-like games on all gaming platforms.

15 Games Like Subnautica For PC (Steam, EGS, GOG)

15. Aquanox Deep Descent

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 10 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 13 hours
  • Genre: Racing
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Aquanox Deep Descent is an underwater first-person shooter. Pick up a vessel to your liking and go into battle in the depths of the world of Aqua.

Aquanox Deep Descent screenshot

14. Don’t Starve (series)

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 79
  • Similarity: 20 %
  • Year of release: 2014 - 2016
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Don’t Starve screenshot

13. Die Young

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 12 hours
  • Genre: Open World
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

A girl, kidnapped for no reason on a beautiful and mysterious island in the Mediterranean Sea, must find a way to escape. Armed only with her wits, agility and desire to survive, she must find a way to freedom or Die Young.

Die Young screenshot

12. Green Hell

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Fight for life in the open world of the harsh Amazon jungle. Use real survival methods: gather resources, get food, fight with local fauna, set up a temporary home or build a real fortress. Survive alone or conquer the jungle with friends.

Green Hell screenshot

11. No Man’s Sky

similar games to No Man’s Sky
  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 61
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 90 hours
  • Genre: Open World
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

No Man's Sky is a sci-fi game about exploration and survival in an infinite, procedurally generated universe.

No Man’s Sky screenshot

10. Outer Wilds

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: Epic Games Store
  • Metascore: 85
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Research
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Outer Wilds is a critically acclaimed, award-winning open-world adventure game about the mysteries of the solar system in a time loop and was named 2019 Game of the Year by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian.

Outer Wilds screenshot

9. The Forest

similar games to The Forest
  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 83
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

The Forest screenshot

8. The Long Dark

similar games to The Long Dark
  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The Long Dark is an exploratory survival simulation game in which single player players must fend for themselves as they explore vast, freezing uninhabited territories that have survived a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies here - just you, the cold, and all the dangers Mother Nature can provide you.

The Long Dark screenshot

7. ABZU

  • Buy: Steam
  • Metascore: 83
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 4 hours
  • Genre: Relaxing
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

ABZU is a colorful underwater adventure from the creators of Journey® where you'll go diving. Dive into a spectacular ocean world full of mystery and color. But be careful, danger awaits you in the depths of the sea.

ABZU screenshot

6. Breathedge

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: GOG.com
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Immerse yourself in the story of a simple man with simple needs trying to survive in the abysses of outer space. Explore, build, kick corpses and poke everything with a chicken.

Breathedge screenshot

5. Raft

similar games to Raft
  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2018
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Raft™ throws you and your friends into an epic oceanic adventure! Alone or together, players battle to survive a perilous voyage across a vast sea! Gather debris, scavenge reefs and build your own floating home, but be wary of the man-eating sharks!

Raft screenshot

4. Stranded Deep

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Stranded Deep screenshot

3. SUNLESS SEA

  • Buy: Steam
  • Buy: Epic Games Store
  • Metascore: 81
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2015
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Research Research Research
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

SUNLESS SEA screenshot

2. FarSky

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2014
  • Game play time: 6 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

FarSky is a short survival game with a few hours of gameplay. With FarSky, you take the role of Nathan who got lost in the Ocean after the crash of his submarine. You need to learn how to survive in the depths of the Ocean.

FarSky screenshot

1. Sunkenland

  • Buy: Steam
  • Similarity: 90 %
  • Year of release: 2024
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Early Access
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Get ready for a Waterworld-style survival game with modular base building, flooded city exploration, crafting, base defense, and NPC clan invasions for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

Sunkenland screenshot

10 Games Like Subnautica On PlayStation 5

10. Don’t Starve (series)

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 79
  • Similarity: 20 %
  • Year of release: 2014 - 2016
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Don’t Starve screenshot

9. Die Young

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 40 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 12 hours
  • Genre: Open World
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

A girl, kidnapped for no reason on a beautiful and mysterious island in the Mediterranean Sea, must find a way to escape. Armed only with her wits, agility and desire to survive, she must find a way to freedom or Die Young.

Die Young screenshot

8. Green Hell

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Fight for life in the open world of the harsh Amazon jungle. Use real survival methods: gather resources, get food, fight with local fauna, set up a temporary home or build a real fortress. Survive alone or conquer the jungle with friends.

Green Hell screenshot

7. Outer Wilds

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 85
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Research
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Outer Wilds is a critically acclaimed, award-winning open-world adventure game about the mysteries of the solar system in a time loop and was named 2019 Game of the Year by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian.

Outer Wilds screenshot

6. The Forest

similar games to The Forest
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 83
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2023
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

As the lone survivor of a passenger jet crash, you find yourself in a mysterious forest battling to stay alive against a society of cannibalistic mutants. Build, explore, survive in this terrifying first person survival horror simulator.

The Forest screenshot

5. The Long Dark

similar games to The Long Dark
  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The Long Dark is an exploratory survival simulation game in which single player players must fend for themselves as they explore vast, freezing uninhabited territories that have survived a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies here - just you, the cold, and all the dangers Mother Nature can provide you.

The Long Dark screenshot

4. ABZU

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 83
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 4 hours
  • Genre: Relaxing
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

ABZU is a colorful underwater adventure from the creators of Journey® where you'll go diving. Dive into a spectacular ocean world full of mystery and color. But be careful, danger awaits you in the depths of the sea.

ABZU screenshot

3. Breathedge

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Immerse yourself in the story of a simple man with simple needs trying to survive in the abysses of outer space. Explore, build, kick corpses and poke everything with a chicken.

Breathedge screenshot

2. Stranded Deep

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Stranded Deep screenshot

1. SUNLESS SEA

  • Buy: Playstation Store
  • Metascore: 81
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2015
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Research Research Research
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

SUNLESS SEA screenshot

1 Games Like Subnautica On Xbox Series X|S

1. No Man’s Sky

similar games to No Man’s Sky
  • Buy: Xbox Store
  • Metascore: 61
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 90 hours
  • Genre: Open World
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

No Man's Sky is a sci-fi game about exploration and survival in an infinite, procedurally generated universe.

No Man’s Sky screenshot

8 Games Like Subnautica For Switch

8. Don’t Starve (series)

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 79
  • Similarity: 20 %
  • Year of release: 2014 - 2016
  • Game play time: 50 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Don’t Starve screenshot

7. Green Hell

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 78
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Fight for life in the open world of the harsh Amazon jungle. Use real survival methods: gather resources, get food, fight with local fauna, set up a temporary home or build a real fortress. Survive alone or conquer the jungle with friends.

Green Hell screenshot

6. No Man’s Sky

similar games to No Man’s Sky
  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 61
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2016
  • Game play time: 90 hours
  • Genre: Open World
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

No Man's Sky is a sci-fi game about exploration and survival in an infinite, procedurally generated universe.

No Man’s Sky screenshot

5. Outer Wilds

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 85
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2019
  • Game play time: 20 hours
  • Genre: Research
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Outer Wilds is a critically acclaimed, award-winning open-world adventure game about the mysteries of the solar system in a time loop and was named 2019 Game of the Year by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian.

Outer Wilds screenshot

4. The Long Dark

similar games to The Long Dark
  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Similarity: 50 %
  • Year of release: 2017
  • Game play time: 40 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

The Long Dark is an exploratory survival simulation game in which single player players must fend for themselves as they explore vast, freezing uninhabited territories that have survived a geomagnetic disaster. There are no zombies here - just you, the cold, and all the dangers Mother Nature can provide you.

The Long Dark screenshot

3. Breathedge

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 71
  • Similarity: 60 %
  • Year of release: 2021
  • Game play time: 15 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

Immerse yourself in the story of a simple man with simple needs trying to survive in the abysses of outer space. Explore, build, kick corpses and poke everything with a chicken.

Breathedge screenshot

2. Stranded Deep

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Similarity: 70 %
  • Year of release: 2020
  • Game play time: 25 hours
  • Genre: Survival
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: yes
  • Multiplayer: yes
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic

Take the role of a plane crash survivor stranded somewhere in the Pacific Ocean. Come face to face with some of the most life threatening scenarios that will result in a different experience each time you play. Scavenge. Discover. Survive.

Stranded Deep screenshot

1. SUNLESS SEA

  • Buy: Nintendo Store
  • Metascore: 81
  • Similarity: 80 %
  • Year of release: 2015
  • Game play time: 30 hours
  • Genre: Research Research Research
  • Singleplayer: yes
  • Coop: no
  • Multiplayer: no
  • Trailer: Youtube
  • Reviews: Metacritic
  • Review: IGN

LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

SUNLESS SEA screenshot

1 Games Like Subnautica For Mobile (Android, iOS)

1. Don’t Starve (series)


Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Don’t Starve screenshot