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Highwater is an adventure game where you battle to survive the effects of global warming. While the elites of society make plans to leave the planet you explore a submerged and dilapidated world with your gathered crew of survivors. It stands out for being set in the same narrative world as the developer's other games, and its provision of architecture and artefacts to help you win the turn-based encounters.
If you enjoyed Highwater, there are other games in the Wasteland franchise you should try. Unfortunately, Highwater is not available on Android, Mac, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme:
Release Date: 14/03/2024
Out Now: PC
Players: 1
Genres: Narrative, Traversal (Adventure, Fighting and Puzzle)
Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Developer: Demagog Studio (@Demagog_Studio)
Costs: Purchase cost
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Highwater. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Highwater.
After Us is an adventure game where you explore a surreal world as Gaia, who must salvage the souls of extinct animals.
After Us is an adventure game where you explore a surreal world as Gaia, who must salvage the souls of extinct animals. You play by traversing the world, dealing with hazards and reviving creatures to reveal their fate: the last whale harpooned, the final eagle caged, the last deer hunted down.
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Neva is a narrative running and jumping game about a young woman's lifelong bond with a wolf.
Neva is a narrative running and jumping game about a young woman's lifelong bond with a wolf. They must work together as they embark on an adventure through a rapidly dying world in the hope of finding a new home.
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Minute of Islands is a running, jumping and exploring game where you play Mo, a skilled tinkerer living in the dilapidated poisoned ruins of an ancient race of giants.
Minute of Islands is a running, jumping and exploring game where you play Mo, a skilled tinkerer living in the dilapidated poisoned ruins of an ancient race of giants. You scavenge parts from their strange machines to get them running and clean the air.
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Farewell North is an adventure where you play a collie dog who restores colour to a desolate Scottish island.
Farewell North is an adventure where you play a collie dog who restores colour to a desolate Scottish island. You explore with your owner who you help by uncovering hidden paths, evading monsters, and freeing wildlife.
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Wavetale is a surfing and jumping adventure in a world of sunken cities, dangerous water and oppressive fog.
Wavetale is a surfing and jumping adventure in a world of sunken cities, dangerous water and oppressive fog. You play as Sigrid, a young girl who works to restore the decaying archipelago and befriends a mysterious shadow that lets her walk on water.
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Islets is a running and jumping game about a small mouse exploring a sky kingdom to reconnect a fragmented world.
Islets is a running and jumping game about a small mouse exploring a sky kingdom to reconnect a fragmented world. You play by defeating enemies in each area to gain powers that let you delve further into the world.
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Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Highwater. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Highwater.
Terra Nil is a strategy game where you use clean technology to bring back life to a barren world.
Terra Nil is a strategy game where you use clean technology to bring back life to a barren world. It's a city-building game where you aren't building a city at all, but a clean thriving ecology.
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Submerged Hidden Depths is an adventure game where you sail, climb and explore the ruins of a sunken world.
Submerged Hidden Depths is an adventure game where you sail, climb and explore the ruins of a sunken world. With light puzzle-solving and no combat, you discover a drowned city, crumbling skyscrapers and deserted villages.
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Vane is an ethereal adventure in a ruined desert where strange golden dust transforms a free-spirited bird into a determined young child.
Vane is an ethereal adventure in a ruined desert where strange golden dust transforms a free-spirited bird into a determined young child. The premise is not all that uncommon, but Vane stands out for how you soar over the desert and climb your way through dilapidated architecture and a crow-infested oasis.
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Black Skylands is an adventure game where you pilot an airship through a sprawling open world of floating islands.
Black Skylands is an adventure game where you pilot an airship through a sprawling open world of floating islands. You play Eva, who's ship has been destroyed and father killed.
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Rime is an adventure on an island where you play a boy led by a fox-like spirit as a guide. To progress through the beautiful environments you solve puzzles across five large levels.
Eco extends the resource-collecting and building of Minecraft by introducing environmental implications to your actions.
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Far: Changing Tides is an exploration adventure that follows Far: Lone Sail.
Far: Changing Tides is an exploration adventure that follows Far: Lone Sail. You work to keep your dilapidated craft from breaking as you explore the ruins of a flooded world.
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Arctico is a meditative, exploration and base-building game where you play a lone scientist on a quest to continue your mentor's legacy and grow food in the arctic.
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Far: Lone Sails is an exploration adventure video game.
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Selfloss is a narrative adventure game about a kind old man in a myth-filled world.
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Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP is an adventure game in miniature.
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Eidolon is a narrative game where you slowly explore a massive, post-human Western Washington.
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Bramble The Mountain King is a grim fairy tale adventure where you lead Ollie, a young child, through the fantastical landscape filled with hideous creatures.
Bramble The Mountain King is a grim fairy tale adventure where you lead Ollie, a young child, through the fantastical landscape filled with hideous creatures. You play by directing your young character through the world, running from dangers and traversing to safety.
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Breakwaters is an adventure set in an ever-changing oceanic world.
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Golf Club: Wasteland is a golf game in an unusual setting.
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Still Wakes The Deep is a horror narrative game set on the Beira D oil rig in 1975.
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Yarrr Har Hunt is a traversal game where you are a band of pirates working together to follow the clues and find buried treasure. You move from clue to clue but must work together and share movement to be efficient and find the treasure before the enemy pirate ship gets to the island.
Santorini is a strategy game where you place buildings on a Greek island in an effort to get your character to the top.
Santorini is a strategy game where you place buildings on a Greek island in an effort to get your character to the top. This creates a chess-like three-dimensional competitive puzzle that changes as each player adds pieces to the village.
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These are games of a similar genre mix to Highwater. This includes games from the Narrative, Traversal, Puzzle, Adventure and Fighting genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.
Bound is a traversal game where you play a dancer in an abstract world who must take on metaphorical monsters to protect her mother in the real world.
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Harold Halibut is a narrative adventure set on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean, after fleeing the Earth 2050 years ago.
Harold Halibut is a narrative adventure set on a city-sized spaceship submerged in an alien ocean, after fleeing the Earth 2050 years ago. It's beautifully created with real puppetry and fully voice-acted.
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Vokabulantis is a puppet-animated running and jumping game about two children, Karla and Kurt, who have fallen in love.
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This is a True Story is a narrative adventure based on actual events and interviews.
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American Arcadia is a running and jumping game where you solve puzzles to escape your televised life in an opulent but overly controlled futuristic city.
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Limbo is a narrative traversal game where you control a small boy as he runs, jumps and climbs through a dark, silhouetted forest that clanks and hums with foreboding.
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Summerhill is a narrative traversal game where you are a young shepherd and their dog.
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