Games Like Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss (2026)

Shared: Grief Narrative, No Combat

Four hours with a dying man's memories, and you will not walk away unchanged. The finest argument that games can do what novels do, built on an RPG Maker engine nobody will care about once the story lands.

Shared: tier:indie

The dating-sim wrapper is bait, and MiSide knows it. What starts as idle chores with an anime girl becomes a genre-hopping psychological horror that two developers built better than most studios manage with a full team.

Shared: No Combat

Grab three friends and loot haunted moons for a faceless corporation. Lethal Company is chaotic co-op horror that thrives on everything going catastrophically wrong.

Shared: Underwater Exploration

Crash-land on an ocean planet, then spend dozens of hours too scared to go deeper, but going anyway. Subnautica is survival-crafting with genuine dread and beauty.

Shared: No Combat

GRIS is a wordless platformer about grief told through watercolor animation and a swelling score. Quiet, intentional, and unlike most things on Steam.