Single-player games like Sail Forth
Below are 14 single-player Steam games similar to Sail Forth, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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King of Seas
Single-player alternative to Sail Forth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sail Forth.
King of Seas is an ARPG adventure game set in a nautical pirate world. Embark on an epic adventure across the seven seas where you’ll discover lost islands and treasures, fight rival pirates and menacing monsters, and become the most legendary pirate of all time!
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Salt 2: Shores of Gold
Single-player alternative to Sail Forth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sail Forth.
Salt 2 is a pirate-themed open world adventure focused on exploration, crafting, and survival. Play solo or with up to 5 friends, sailing the sea with your ship as a mobile base. Discover islands full of quests, towns, caves, and secrets. Level up, craft gear, hunt, fish, and customize your ship.
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Windward
Single-player alternative to Sail Forth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sail Forth.
Windward is an action-filled multiplayer sandbox game that puts you in control of a ship sailing the high seas of a large procedurally-generated world.
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Buccaneers!
Single-player alternative to Sail Forth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sail Forth.
Become a fearless captain in Buccaneers!, a classic pirate RPG. Join a band of pirates or a naval power and fight for supremacy in the Caribbean. Build and customise your fleet to take on any foe and rewrite history!
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The Caribbean Sail
Single-player alternative to Sail Forth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sail Forth.
Name your crew, purchase supplies, sail the world, harpoon fish, plunder your enemies, die horribly, unlock a new Captain and do it all over again!
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Captain Bones : A Pirate's Journey
Single-player alternative to Sail Forth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sail Forth.
Captain Bones is an action-adventure game set in an open pirate world. You must have survival skills to make ship battles and treasure hunts with your crew.
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Terror of the Seven Seas
Single-player alternative to Sail Forth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sail Forth.
Become a Mighty Captain in a Age of sail naval combat game, set in all of the Seven Seas! Sail the entire world: conquering, boarding, plundering, exploring and trading along the way! Gather your crew, ready your ship, hoist your sails and enter a world of swashbuckling and piracy!
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Cat Quest III
Single-player alternative to Sail Forth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sail Forth.
In Cat Quest III you play as a purrivateer in a freely explorable 2.5D open-world swarming with Pi-rats. You can sail the seas in your ship for treasures galore! But prepare for peril, as the Pirate King aims to hunt you down...
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Mount & Blade
Single-player alternative to Sail Forth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Indie with Sail Forth.
Calradia is a land at war, offering great riches and even greater dangers to adventurers and mercenaries that flock to shed their blood on its soil. With courage and a strong sword, an unknown stranger can make a name as a warrior. Free-form sand-box gameplay.
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Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™
Single-player alternative to Sail Forth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sail Forth.
Discover Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, the classic pirate action-adventure game from 2013. Command your ship, hunt Templars and carve your legend as Edward Kenway across the Caribbean's Golden Age of Piracy.
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LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game
Single-player alternative to Sail Forth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Adventure with Sail Forth.
LEGO® Pirates of the Caribbean: The Video Game is an action adventure game that brings the Pirates of the Caribbean world and all its colorful characters to life in LEGO Brick form. Players experience all the memorable scenes from all four films in the humorous and quirky LEGO Video Games style.
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Thief of Thieves
Single-player alternative to Sail Forth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sail Forth.
In Thief of Thieves you play as a cat burglar using stealth, social engineering and team members to pull off some high profile heists across the world. Based on the comic book series by Robert Kirkman, it’s time for Celia to make the leap from apprentice to master.
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Sid Meier's Pirates!
Single-player alternative to Sail Forth — playable solo, no multiplayer required.
Sail the Caribbean, marauding all on the high seas or ally your ship and crew as a privateer in search of riches - the life you choose is up to you. Face dogged enemies, raid unsuspecting villages, woo fair maidens, avoid capture or dig for buried treasure. Discover what it takes to become one of the most famous pirates in history!
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Pirates
Single-player alternative to Sail Forth — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with Sail Forth.
(Sandbox Game) You play as a pirate on a remote island, surviving alone or with other players as you battle hostile skeletons. Construct a shelter and gather resources to fortify your survival.