Sunkenland similar games & best alternatives

Sunkenland

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2023

Should you play it?

Get ready for a Waterworld-themed survival game with modular base building, sunken city scavenging, crafting, base defense, and invasions of NPC clans for resources and territory. Ready for the water apocalypse?

What works
  • Engaging survival and crafting loop
  • Immersive underwater exploration
  • Active developer support and updates
  • Co-op multiplayer up to 14 players
  • Extensive base building and customization
Things to keep in mind
  • Early access bugs and glitches
  • Lack of strong narrative or story
  • Some clunky mechanics and ui issues
  • Repetitive resource grinding
  • Limited enemy variety and ai flaws

What to play next

Similar games, hidden gems, and fresh directions from this game.

Top picks

Games that feel the closest overall

  • Zombie Estate 2

  • Rem Survival

  • Bullets And More VR - BAM VR

  • The Greatest Penguin Heist of All Time

  • Zombie Party

  • Storm Chasers

  • Sketchy's Contract

  • DeadPoly

  • Total Miner
Hidden Gems

Less popular games with surprisingly high similarity

  • Rem Survival

  • Bullets And More VR - BAM VR

  • Total Miner
If you liked…

Recommendations by what you enjoyed most

  • Autonomy

    Grounded
  • Continuation

    Laundry Store Simulator
  • Creativity

    Subsistence

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Why this game works” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

  • Purple star: this page’s game — everything on the map is relative to it.
  • 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 for a screenshot preview, score, and top score gaps; click to compare in the panel on the right.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers (hidden on purpose).

Sunkenland: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition, Survival. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story.

Why this game works

A motivational profile of the game, with the closest similar game for each player motivation.

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  • Competence

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  • Competition

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  • Cooperation

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  • Creativity

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  • Domination

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  • Escapism

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  • Expectation

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  • Exploration

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  • Story

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