Depth similar games & best alternatives

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Depth

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2014

Should you play it?

Play as a shark or a diver in a dark aquatic world and overcome your enemies by employing cunning, teamwork, and stealth. Depth blends tension and visceral action as you team up against AI or be matched with other players in heart pounding combat.

What works

  • Unique asymmetrical gameplay
  • Strong team cooperation
  • Immersive underwater atmosphere
  • Skill-based progression and upgrades
  • Active and friendly community

Things to keep in mind

  • Small player base and matchmaking issues
  • Limited game modes and maps
  • Steep learning curve for new players
  • Balance issues at different skill levels
  • Game no longer actively developed

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • The Outlast Trials

  • Resident Evil 5

  • Guns of Icarus Online

  • White Noise 2

  • SURV1V3

  • Left 4 Dead

Less competitive

Games that feels like Depth but with less competition against others

  • Knights End

  • Nuclear Nightmare

  • Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide

  • Murky Divers

  • KLETKA

  • Abyssus

More dominating

Games that feels like Depth but with more domination over others

  • Maurice: In The Predator's Nest

  • Natural Selection 2

  • Dark Deception: Monsters & Mortals

  • Dead by Daylight

  • Predator: Hunting Grounds

  • DARK SOULS™ III

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Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with Depth. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with Depth. These titles are not in What to play next.

Depth: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation, Domination.

Last update: 21/08/2026