Going Under similar games & best alternatives

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Going Under

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2020

Should you play it?

Going Under is a satirical dungeon crawler about exploring the cursed ruins of failed tech startups. As an unpaid intern in the dystopian city of Neo-Cascadia, you’ll wield office junk as weaponry as you make your way through the offbeat procedural dungeons beneath your company campus.

What works

  • Unique corporate satire and humor
  • Engaging and varied combat mechanics
  • Vibrant art style and soundtrack
  • Meaningful character interactions
  • Accessible difficulty options

Things to keep in mind

  • Difficulty spikes can be frustrating
  • Some repetition in dungeon design
  • Combat can feel clunky or unfair at times
  • Limited room variety
  • Lack of multiplayer or cooperative features

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion

  • Boyfriend Dungeon

  • Virgo Versus The Zodiac

  • Crashlands 2

  • Bloomtown: A Different Story

  • Possessor(s)

Less fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like Going Under but with less of a community feel

  • Penny’s Big Breakaway

  • Soda Girls

  • Ittle Dew 2+

  • Underhero

  • Little Big Adventure – Twinsen’s Quest

  • Death's Door

More social

Games that feels like Going Under but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Forge Quest

  • Frog Sqwad 🐸

  • Rotwood

  • Steven Universe: Save the Light

  • Young Souls

  • STUFFED

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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).

Going Under: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Cooperation, Leadership, Status.

Last update: 03/08/2026