Games like Anchor Up
If Anchor Up is your kind of game, the closest matches are Plunder Bay, Port Royale 4 and Battleships and Carriers - WW2 Battleship Game — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Anchor Up: A calming turn based puzzle game about out-manoeuvring your opponents ships by careful navigation and weapon placement. The weapons you choose, and where you place them on your boat are all part of the puzzle.
Players who liked Anchor Up also play
Steam players who put hours into Anchor Up 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.
Plunder Bay
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Top pick for Anchor Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
A pirate strategy board game! Sail across tropical, volcanic, and glacier oceans. Spin the helm, buy islands, build houses, collect treasures, and battle AI opponents with cannons, rockets, and mines. Will you become the richest pirate captain?
Port Royale 4
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Second-strongest match for Anchor Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
Set sail and join the colonial powers of Spain, England, France and the Netherlands in their fight for supremacy of the Caribbean in the 17th century.
Battleships and Carriers - WW2 Battleship Game
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Third-strongest match for Anchor Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
Search, move, destroy and build ships/subs/aircraft: casual turn-based naval strategy battleship game. More than 80 missions, Death-Match and Free Hunt scenarios and campaigns from Pearl Harbor and Lamansh to the Overlord and Okinawa battles, with over 50 ship and aircraft types.
Battleships and Carriers - Pacific War
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Ranked #4 for Anchor Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
Casual turn-based WW2 Pacific naval strategy: move, search & destroy, build units and technologies. Clear and simple combat and move. 2D, retro style, WW2. Easy to learn - hard to master.More than 90 missions and campaigns from Pearl Harbor and Midway to the Iwo Jima and Leyte battles.
Tortuga - A Pirate's Tale
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Ranked #5 for Anchor Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
Tortuga - A Pirate’s Tale tells the journey of a pirate captain with a lust for gold and glory who assumes command of a fleet of pirate ships to strike the Caribbean.
Horizon's Gate
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Ranked #6 for Anchor Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
Voyage into the wide world of Eral as an explorer, trader, or privateer. Defeat your enemies on land or at sea in deep but straightforward tactical combat. Unravel the secrets behind Dominio's betrayal – or sail off in search of your own adventure.
Battle Fleet 2
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Ranked #7 for Anchor Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
Welcome Admiral! Select your fleet, assign weapons, and sink the enemy fleet by controlling each of your ships down to setting the aim and range of each weapon's shot. Features include full open world Pacific & Atlantic campaigns, cross-platform multiplayer and awesome turn-based naval battles.
Blackwake
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Ranked #8 for Anchor Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
Blackwake is a multiplayer naval FPS focused on teamwork and cooperation. Fire the cannons, sink enemy ships or board them with firearms and steel.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Anchor Up at current Steam store prices.
Nodebuster
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Priced ~50% under Anchor Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.
shapez
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Priced ~83% under Anchor Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
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!
Tower Wizard
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Priced ~50% under Anchor Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
Help a wizard build and upgrade a wizard tower in this incremental game! Use the tower to study magic, summon spirits, create buildings, and influence the world.
Bejeweled® 3
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Priced ~83% under Anchor Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
The biggest, brightest Bejeweled ever! Discover all-new ways to play the world’s #1 puzzle game. Find your perfect match with 8 breathtaking game modes that meet all your moods.
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~83% under Anchor Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Hexcells Plus
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Priced ~50% under Anchor Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
Hexcells Plus is an ambient logic puzzle game for PC, Mac and Linux.
Lords of the Realm II
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Priced ~50% under Anchor Up on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
The great Lords of England have their eyes on the the English throne! Muster an army and overrun your enemies' castles in this classic, nail-biting strategy game that blends turn-based and real-time gameplay.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
Virtual Cottage
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
An Arcade Full of Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
100 Asian Cats
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Anchor Up.
🏮🐈 100 Asian Cats - Join the cutest adventure in the Asia! 😻 🌸 Explore the charming hand-drawn artwork of Asian temples 🏯 as you embark on a quest to find 100 adorable cats hidden throughout the game. 🕵️♂️❌ Can you find them all? 🕵️♂️🐈✅
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Frequently asked about Anchor Up
- How much does Anchor Up cost?
- Anchor Up is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Anchor Up?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Anchor Up are Plunder Bay, Port Royale 4, Battleships and Carriers - WW2 Battleship Game.
- Who developed Anchor Up?
- Anchor Up was developed by Cameron Fox.
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