Games like Cleo - a pirate's tale
If Cleo - a pirate's tale is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet, Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™ and Orbital Cargo Division — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, emotional and nostalgic. 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 Cleo - a pirate's tale: Cleo is a solo-developed, top-down, pixel-art, retro, pirate adventure with a lot of nostalgic flair, humor and a linear story, inspired by the old Zelda games and the classic LucasArts adventure games.
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Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Top pick for Cleo - a pirate's tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Pirate heroine Nelly Cootalot takes on the villainous Baron Widebeard in this point and click adventure game. Meet a hilarious cast of characters including Tom Baker (Dr Who) and face perplexing challenges in your search for the Treasure of the Seventh Sea.
Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Second-strongest match for Cleo - a pirate's tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Wannabe pirate Guybrush Threepwood, and the now zombie pirate LeChuck, return in what has long been considered one of the greatest LucasArts adventure games of all time.
Orbital Cargo Division
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cleo - a pirate's tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
The crew of a cargo ship arrives at what appears to be an abandoned space station. Power appears to be there, but no one is responding to their radio messages. A pixel art point & click adventure with an exciting story and lots of humor.
Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy! HD
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Ranked #4 for Cleo - a pirate's tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Nelly Cootalot is the stupidly named pirate adventurer with a heart of gold. Uncover corruption and wanton punning in this HD revival of a classic freeware adventure game.
Crushed In Time
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cleo - a pirate's tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Embark on an adventure with Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson on this surprising and elastic point-and-click game. Grab, pull, and release to help them solve a bizarre investigation full of humor and meta-time travel!
Tales of Monkey Island: Complete Season
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a nostalgic mood with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Ranked #6 for Cleo - a pirate's tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
While explosively stripping the evil pirate LeChuck of his demonic mojo, Guybrush Threepwood inadvertently infects the entire Caribbean with the arch-fiend's expelled voodoo, which threatens to transform buccaneers into unruly pirate monsters.
The Secret of Monkey Island: Special Edition
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and a nostalgic mood with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Ranked #7 for Cleo - a pirate's tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Back by popular demand, The Secret of Monkey Island™: Special Edition faithfully re-imagines the internationally-acclaimed classic game (originally released in 1990) for original and new audiences alike.
Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!
WHY THIS
Shares point and click and a nostalgic mood with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Ranked #8 for Cleo - a pirate's tale fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Hair metal's not dead, it just smells funny! Get your denim vest, bandana and makeup, and dive into a point-and-click adventure as a middle-aged teddy bear planning a comeback with his old glam metal band – in a world where glam metal has been dead and buried for decades.
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Return to Monkey Island
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Reviewers of Cleo - a pirate's tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Return to Monkey Island is an unexpected, thrilling return of series creator Ron Gilbert that continues the story of the legendary adventure games.
The Darkside Detective
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Reviewers of Cleo - a pirate's tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Grab your trench coat, tune your sixth sense and join the Darkside Division as they investigate the outright bizarre, the downright dangerous and the confusing cases of Twin Lakes. Flesh-hungry tentacles, mafian zombies, and the occasional missing sock are no match for The Darkside Detective.
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Reviewers of Cleo - a pirate's tale cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Originally released by LucasArts in 1993 as a sequel to Ron Gilbert’s ground breaking Maniac Mansion, Day of the Tentacle is back in a remastered edition that features all new hand-drawn, high resolution artwork, with remastered audio, music and sound effects.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cleo - a pirate's tale at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cleo - a pirate's tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
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 ~67% under Cleo - a pirate's tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
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!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Cleo - a pirate's tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Cleo - a pirate's tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Cleo - a pirate's tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cleo - a pirate's tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
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 ~67% under Cleo - a pirate's tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Cleo - a pirate's tale on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
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 Cleo - a pirate's tale.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
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 and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
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 Cleo - a pirate's tale.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cleo - a pirate's tale.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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Frequently asked about Cleo - a pirate's tale
- Is Cleo - a pirate's tale verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Cleo - a pirate's tale is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Cleo - a pirate's tale cost?
- Cleo - a pirate's tale is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Cleo - a pirate's tale?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cleo - a pirate's tale are Nelly Cootalot: The Fowl Fleet, Monkey Island™ 2 Special Edition: LeChuck’s Revenge™, Orbital Cargo Division.
- Who developed Cleo - a pirate's tale?
- Cleo - a pirate's tale was developed by Christoph Schultz.
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