Games like Paper Pirates
If Paper Pirates is your kind of game, the closest matches are Republic of Jungle, Play Together: Party Games and The Jackbox Party Pack 6 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its contemplative, funny 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 Paper Pirates: Grab a crew and jump aboard a haunted pirate ship for a social deduction party game, using your phones as controllers! Are you a human sailing home to shore or a ghost working against the crew? Throw your crewmates overboard, but fear not - nobody’s ever out of the game!
Players who liked Paper Pirates also play
Steam players who put hours into Paper Pirates 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.
Republic of Jungle
WHY THIS
Top pick for Paper Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Pirates.
Gather your friends (5 to 10 players) and play as advisors to President Puma. His re-election depends on your loyalty. In a social deduction party game, Leakers try to sneak into missions to leak Puma's secrets- Loyalists try to suss them out. Read the room and bluff your way to a political victory.
Play Together: Party Games
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Paper Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Pirates.
Play with up to 8 players using phones as controllers! Play action minigames, strategy, drawing and other fun challenges with your friends, locally or online. No extra downloads needed! Turn any screen into a party with Play Together: Party Games!
The Jackbox Party Pack 6
WHY THIS
Shares social deduction and a funny mood with Paper Pirates.
Third-strongest match for Paper Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Pirates.
It’s the wildest Party Pack yet, with the absurd deathmatch Trivia Murder Party 2, the weird word circus Dictionarium, the hidden identity game Push The Button, the comedy contest Joke Boat and the offbeat personality test Role Models.
Project Planet - Earth vs Humanity
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Paper Pirates.
Ranked #4 for Paper Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Pirates.
Destroy Humanity with virus outbreaks, asteroid impacts and more as Planet Earth! Or team up with up to five friends as the World Leaders, Industry, Media, Scientists and Public, and try to survive. Impossible dilemmas and choices-matter create countless paths in this strategy party game!
Star Words - The Board Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Paper Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Pirates.
"Star Words - The board game" is a collection of local multiplayer word games. Defeat monstrous aliens with your friends in a cooperative adventure or challenge each other in space battles in front of a single device in a galaxy of words!
Assimilate! (A Party Game)
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Paper Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Pirates.
Play with 5-10 players online or locally in this 50s-themed, social deduction party game about a cleverly-disguised robot infiltrating a local, "humans only" sockhop!
The Jackbox Party Pack 9
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Paper Pirates.
Ranked #7 for Paper Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Pirates.
Save your next party! 5 new games in 1 Party Pack: the trivia bluff-off Fibbage 4, the team test Quixort, the joke auction Junktopia, the silly guessfest Nonsensory and the reality TV game Roomerang.
Scribble Wolf
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Paper Pirates fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Pirates.
A Werewolf game (or social deduction game), in which you can control the character that you have drawn. Up to 10 players can play online. Perhaps the key to victory is to "draw tracing" of an opposing team's character and "disguise yourself" as it...? 😏
Reviewers mention these as similar to Paper Pirates
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Mafia
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Paper Pirates cross-mention this title as a similar play.
It’s 1930. After an inadvertent brush with the mafia, cabdriver Tommy Angelo is reluctantly thrust into the world of organized crime. Initially, he is uneasy about falling in with the Salieri family, but soon the rewards become too big to ignore.
Town of Salem
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Paper Pirates cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Casual with Paper Pirates.
Inspired by the party games Werewolf and Mafia, Town of Salem is a game of murder, mystery and deception.
Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Heart of the Forest
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Paper Pirates.
Reviewers of Paper Pirates cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Paper Pirates.
Explore the myths and monsters of Europe’s last primeval wilderness. Play as Maia, who arrives at the ancient Białowieża Forest looking to explore her family history. Discover Rage in an adventure game inspired by the experience of the legendary tabletop roleplaying game Werewolf: The Apocalypse.
BLACK WEREWOLF
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Paper Pirates cross-mention this title as a similar play.
BLACK WEREWOLF - Werewolves from neighboring lands invaded your lands and began to destroy all your property. The village elder had no choice but to send you to deal with the enemies and find out what was going on.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Paper Pirates at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Paper Pirates on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Pirates.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Paper Pirates on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Pirates.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~42% under Paper Pirates on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Paper Pirates.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~52% under Paper Pirates on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Pirates.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Paper Pirates on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Pirates.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Paper Pirates on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Pirates.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under Paper Pirates on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Paper Pirates.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under Paper Pirates on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Paper Pirates.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Pirates.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paper Pirates.
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 with Paper Pirates.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Pirates.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Paper Pirates.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Paper Pirates.
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 with Paper Pirates.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
The Jackbox Party Pack 6
WHY THIS
Shares social deduction and a funny mood with Paper Pirates.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Pirates.
It’s the wildest Party Pack yet, with the absurd deathmatch Trivia Murder Party 2, the weird word circus Dictionarium, the hidden identity game Push The Button, the comedy contest Joke Boat and the offbeat personality test Role Models.
Project Planet - Earth vs Humanity
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Paper Pirates.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Pirates.
Destroy Humanity with virus outbreaks, asteroid impacts and more as Planet Earth! Or team up with up to five friends as the World Leaders, Industry, Media, Scientists and Public, and try to survive. Impossible dilemmas and choices-matter create countless paths in this strategy party game!
The Jackbox Party Pack 9
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Paper Pirates.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Paper Pirates.
Save your next party! 5 new games in 1 Party Pack: the trivia bluff-off Fibbage 4, the team test Quixort, the joke auction Junktopia, the silly guessfest Nonsensory and the reality TV game Roomerang.
Frequently asked about Paper Pirates
- Does Paper Pirates run on Steam Deck?
- Paper Pirates is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Paper Pirates cost?
- Paper Pirates is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Paper Pirates have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Paper Pirates supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Paper Pirates?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Paper Pirates are Republic of Jungle, Play Together: Party Games, The Jackbox Party Pack 6.
- Who developed Paper Pirates?
- Paper Pirates was developed by Iteration Games.
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