Games like Plunder
If Plunder is your kind of game, the closest matches are Torchlight II, CrossCode and Hyper Light Drifter — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative and lighthearted. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Plunder: Plunder is an Action Role-Playing Game set in a magical open world filled with oceans, islands, cities, and dungeons for you to explore! Decide your fate as a pirate legend when you find yourself caught in a war of competing factions, mystical beasts, and dark forces building beneath the surface.
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Steam players who put hours into Plunder also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Torchlight II
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Top pick for Plunder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
The adventure continues in Torchlight II! An Action RPG filled with epic battles, bountiful treasure, and a fully randomized world. Bring your friends along for the journey with online and LAN multiplayer.
CrossCode
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Plunder.
Second-strongest match for Plunder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
A retro-inspired 2D Action RPG set in the distant future. CrossCode combines 16-bit SNES-style graphics with butter-smooth physics, a fast-paced combat system, and engaging puzzle mechanics, served with a gripping sci-fi story.
Hyper Light Drifter
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Third-strongest match for Plunder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Orcs Must Die! 2
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Shares a challenging mood with Plunder.
Ranked #4 for Plunder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.
Infernax
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Shares a challenging mood with Plunder.
Ranked #5 for Plunder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
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Ranked #6 for Plunder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Full Metal Furies
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a contemplative mood with Plunder.
Ranked #7 for Plunder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
From the creators of Rogue Legacy comes a "true-cooperative" action RPG. FULL METAL FURIES puts an emphasis on team play with a unique combat system where everyone is important. Play on the couch, alone or with friends, or make it an online party for up to four players!
Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem
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Shares a challenging mood with Plunder.
Ranked #8 for Plunder fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
Carve your path in this Hack’n’Slash free from class boundaries. Purify a world shattered by corruption, and uncover the grim secrets and forgotten horrors lurking in the shadows of this forsaken land as you rise in Power. Your Inner aspect beckons—will you answer?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Plunder at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Plunder on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Plunder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Plunder.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Plunder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Plunder.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~80% under Plunder on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Plunder.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under Plunder on Steam right now. Shares Action with Plunder.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Plunder on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Plunder.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under Plunder on Steam right now. Shares Action with Plunder.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Plunder on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Plunder.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Plunder.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Trick & Treat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Plunder.
Trick or treating in a vampire's house.Trick & Treat is a light-hearted Halloween adventure. It's about exploring and solving puzzles in a spooky atmosphere. There will be some horror elements, romance, many bad ends and a happy ending of true love.
Realm of the Mad God Exalt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
Embark on an exhilarating journey into the pixelated Realm of the Mad God! Join, an action-packed, free-to-play MMO bullet hell game. Discover a world with danger, challenges, and hidden treasures as you battle through waves of enemies. Team up with players and conquer dungeons to become a legend!
Clicker Heroes
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Plunder.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Spiral Knights
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
Join the ranks of the Spiral Knights. Stranded on an alien world, you must explore the ever-changing Clockworks beneath its surface.
Dark Deception
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
Death awaits you in Dark Deception, a story-driven first-person horror maze game. There's nowhere to hide & nowhere to catch your breath. Run or die - it's your choice. Trapped in a realm of nightmarish mazes with a mysterious woman, your only hope of survival is to find a way to escape.
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Hyper Light Drifter
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Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.
Infernax
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Plunder.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
Infernax is the adventures of a great knight who returns to his homeland only to find it plagued with unholy magic. Uncover the mysteries of the curse and face the consequences of your actions.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Plunder.
Death's Gambit: Afterlife is a challenging 2D action platformer with deep RPG elements. As an agent of Death bound to his service, unravel the mystery of Siradon and discover the true price of immortality.
Frequently asked about Plunder
- How much does Plunder cost?
- Plunder is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Plunder?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Plunder are Torchlight II, CrossCode, Hyper Light Drifter.
- Who developed Plunder?
- Plunder was developed by IB Games.
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