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Omar Chapa Hernandez, Omar Chapa Moyers · 2022 · Windows

Steam: 85 % positive of 161 reviews, as of Oct 28

As captain of the Pandora sub, you must explore the Trench and retrieve data from the Neptune wreckage. But beware - the trench is home to unimaginable horrors that will test your courage. Can you survive the terrors of the deep and complete your mission, or will you become the next victim?

24 games that play like The Trench and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: SOMA, Static Dread: The Submarine and Subnautica.

Player tags

  • Horror
  • Submarine
  • Underwater
  • Survival Horror
  • Lovecraftian
  • Atmospheric
  • Realistic
  • Adventure
Map region: Psychological Horror
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Best matches

Plays and looks like The Trench

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like The Trench

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Abyss of Neptune68 % positive of 232Shared: Horror · Underwater · Survival Horror
  2. MOLE97 % positive of 3,914
  3. Under The Waves77 % positive of 1,753Shared: Horror · Submarine · Underwater
  4. STASIS: BONE TOTEM93 % positive of 2,035Shared: Horror · Submarine · Survival Horror
  5. Under: Depths of Fear64 % positive of 251Shared: Horror · Survival Horror · First-Person
  6. Reveal The Deep82 % positive of 1,447Shared: Horror · Underwater · Lovecraftian
  7. Depth88 % positive of 23,599Shared: Horror · Underwater · Survival Horror
  8. Darkwater77 % positive of 1,002Shared: Horror · Submarine · Underwater
  9. Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss86 % positive of 323Shared: Underwater · Mystery · Interactive Fiction
  10. The Shore70 % positive of 1,777Shared: Horror · Underwater · Lovecraftian
  11. Mouthwashing95 % positive of 34,750Shared: Horror · Mystery · First-Person
  12. Subnautica: Below Zero90 % positive of 99,732Shared: Horror · Underwater · Survival Horror

By look

Looks like The Trench

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Approximately Up92 % positive of 1,125
  2. The Walking Fish 2: Final Frontier88 % positive of 616
  3. Crabmeat86 % positive of 189
  4. Microbial Sector95 % positive of 322
  5. Satellite Odyssey: Prologue91 % positive of 995
  6. The Gallery - Episode 1: Call of the Starseed80 % positive of 1,021
  7. CAT Interstellar69 % positive of 696
  8. IronWolf: Free Non-VR Edition94 % positive of 674
  9. Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs69 % positive of 7,304
  10. VHOLUME97 % positive of 3,875
  11. Scavenger SV-491 % positive of 658
  12. Stationeers87 % positive of 8,656

At a glance

What games like The Trench have in common

  • The tags they share most often with The Trench: Horror (22 of 24), Underwater (17) and Survival Horror (11).
  • They came out between 2014 and 2026, 14 of them after The Trench (2022).
  • Best rated by Steam players: MOLE (97 % positive of 3,914).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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