Games like Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
If Breakwaters: Crystal Tides is your kind of game, the closest matches are Salt 2: Shores of Gold, ATLAS and Windrose — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its exploration feels peaceful, seamless multiplayer sailing and atmospheric. 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 Breakwaters: Crystal Tides: Survive in a world ravaged by massive Titans and an ever changing ocean sim. Displace water to find resources for building and crafting unique items. Swim, sail, and fly to explore new islands and fight Titans.
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Salt 2: Shores of Gold
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Top pick for Breakwaters: Crystal Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
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.
ATLAS
WHY THIS
Shares ship sailing with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Second-strongest match for Breakwaters: Crystal Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Set sail for the ultimate pirate experience! Embark on a grand adventure alongside thousands of other players in one of the largest game worlds ever built (and even claim a piece of it to call your own). Build your ship, assemble your crew, sail the high seas, and become a pirate legend!
Windrose
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Third-strongest match for Breakwaters: Crystal Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Craftopia
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Breakwaters: Crystal Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Craftopia is the brand new multiplayer survival action game made in Japan. We combined many features we find enjoyable, such as hunting, farming, hack-and-slash, building, automation to develop this game.
ASKA
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Breakwaters: Crystal Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
A new Viking age dawns with you at its helm. Forge a thriving colony from nothing in this mythic open-world survival sim. Earn the gods' favor and survive in a land ruled by ancient terrors and unforgiving seasons. Rally unique villagers, expand your settlement and defend your tribe - solo or co-op!
Smalland: Survive the Wilds
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Ranked #6 for Breakwaters: Crystal Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Experience a big adventure on a tiny scale! Enjoy multiplayer survival in a vast, hazardous world. Preparation is key when you're this small & at the bottom of the food chain. Craft weapons & armour, tame & ride creatures, build encampments & explore a strange new land.
Aloft
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Ranked #7 for Breakwaters: Crystal Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.
Project Zomboid
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Breakwaters: Crystal Tides fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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Valheim
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Reviewers of Breakwaters: Crystal Tides cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
A brutal exploration and survival game for 1-10 players, set in a procedurally-generated purgatory inspired by viking culture. Battle, build, and conquer your way to a saga worthy of Odin’s patronage!
Voyagers of Nera
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Reviewers of Breakwaters: Crystal Tides cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Voyagers of Nera is a cooperative survival-crafting game where you must survive a magical ocean world brimming with lost spirits and deadly monsters. Sail to distant islands, build beautiful villages and surf across the waves with up to 10 players.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Breakwaters: Crystal Tides cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Enshrouded
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Reviewers of Breakwaters: Crystal Tides cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
You are Flameborn, last ember of hope of a dying race. Awaken, survive the terror of a corrupting fog, and reclaim the lost beauty of your kingdom. Venture into a vast world, vanquish punishing bosses, build grand halls and forge your path in this co-op survival action RPG for up to 16 players.
Dawn of Defiance
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Reviewers of Breakwaters: Crystal Tides cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
You are the Defier, a Spartan beginning your afterlife on the Crossroads. In this Greek myth-inspired survival craft, ascend from weak soldier to god-like anti-hero. Build impressive Greek structures, craft legendary gear, and break the seals of the Underworld with up to 3 friends.
Soulmask
WHY THIS
Shares multiplayer co op and an atmospheric mood with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Reviewers of Breakwaters: Crystal Tides cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Don the Ancient Mask. Wield the power of gods. Possess any of your tribespeople, recruit followers, and build a thriving automated civilization. Survive, expand, and forge your own legacy across a vast ancient open world — together with friends.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Breakwaters: Crystal Tides at current Steam store prices.
Terraria
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Priced ~50% under Breakwaters: Crystal Tides on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Breakwaters: Crystal Tides on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Breakwaters: Crystal Tides on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Breakwaters: Crystal Tides on Steam right now. Shares Action with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Breakwaters: Crystal Tides on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Portal 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Breakwaters: Crystal Tides on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
The "Perpetual Testing Initiative" has been expanded to allow you to design co-op puzzles for you and your friends!
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Breakwaters: Crystal Tides on Steam right now. Shares Action with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Breakwaters: Crystal Tides.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Breakwaters: Crystal Tides
- Does Breakwaters: Crystal Tides work on Steam Deck?
- Breakwaters: Crystal Tides is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Breakwaters: Crystal Tides cost?
- Breakwaters: Crystal Tides is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Breakwaters: Crystal Tides have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Breakwaters: Crystal Tides supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Breakwaters: Crystal Tides?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Breakwaters: Crystal Tides are Salt 2: Shores of Gold, ATLAS, Windrose.
- Who developed Breakwaters: Crystal Tides?
- Breakwaters: Crystal Tides was developed by Soaring Pixels Games.
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