Games like Essex: The Whale Hunter
If Essex: The Whale Hunter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Isle Of Pirates, The Road To Harvest: Food From Across The Ocean and Dreaming Isles — 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 Essex: The Whale Hunter: Experience a great seas adventure inspired by the famous Moby Dick. Grab a harpoon and take on the largest animals on Earth – the whales. Hunt, harvest resources, gain fame and amass a fortune!
Players who liked Essex: The Whale Hunter also play
Steam players who put hours into Essex: The Whale Hunter 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.
Isle Of Pirates
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Top pick for Essex: The Whale Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
Ahoy, Captain! Build your pirate tavern, explore hidden islands, find treasures, and expand your crew. Defend your island from enemies and rise to become a legendary pirate in Isle of Pirates!
The Road To Harvest: Food From Across The Ocean
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Second-strongest match for Essex: The Whale Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
Become the God of Harvest, explore the world of food and adventure, plant, trade, and spread deliciousness to create your own path to prosperity!
Dreaming Isles
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Third-strongest match for Essex: The Whale Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
A farming life sim with high seas adventure. Grow crops, grow ammo, grow a backbone! Side with the Pirates or help restore Global Trade. Feed the islanders, forge relationships, find romance, and call people "scurvy dog"! Raise the mainsail, fire the cannons, and set sail for adventure!
Age of Magellan: Sail the entire Planet
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Ranked #4 for Essex: The Whale Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
An open-world Age of Exploration sailing sim where you can circumnavigate the entire planet and relive the feats of the great discoverers. Navigate by sextant, trade across thousands of real cities, and maneuver your ship to bring broadsides to bear in real-time naval combat.
Nantucket
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Ranked #5 for Essex: The Whale Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
Chase after Moby Dick, and live through the Golden Age of American whaling in this seafaring strategy game. Set sail around the world, manage your ship and crew, and live Ishmael's story, the sole survivor of the Pequod, a few years after the events narrated by Herman Melville in his masterpiece.
The Pirate Queen with Lucy Liu
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Ranked #6 for Essex: The Whale Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
The Pirate Queen is an Emmy-nominated narrative adventure starring Lucy Liu. Climb aboard a 19th century Chinese pirate ship, explore moonlit cabins, unearth treasure and embark on a journey to become the most powerful pirate of all time. Do you have what it takes to be crowned The Pirate Queen?
Sailing Era
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Ranked #7 for Essex: The Whale Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
Every voyage is a journey of "Sailing & Beyond" in Sailing Era! Navigate your fleet and sail for fun; run a business; have a romantic encounter in the tavern; capture pirates amid intense battle; explore inland for treasure... Experience foreign culture, make novel discoveries, and sail away!
The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt
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Ranked #8 for Essex: The Whale Hunter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
Hail to the Captain! Sail into the heart of the Caribbean in the Age of Piracy - the time of black flags and white skulls, blue waves and golden opportunities. Hoist the Jolly Roger and grab the steering wheel to sail through battles and raids, ransoms and treasures, to become the Crimson King of the Antilles!
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
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. Shares Indie with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
NGU IDLE
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
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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Task Force Elite
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Another title from TBD, the studio behind Essex: The Whale Hunter. Shares Indie with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
Tip of the Spear: Task Force Elite is a multiplayer FPS with old school roots. Engage in infantry combat across urban and terrain-based maps in classic game modes, like Team King of the Hill, and master a realistic ballistics system to snipe the enemy from a mile away.
Sailor Simulator
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Another title from TBD, the studio behind Essex: The Whale Hunter. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
Sail the seas and oceans on your own ship. Transport valuable goods, earn money, buy bigger ships. Fortune awaits you!
Moscow Rush
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Another title from TBD, the studio behind Essex: The Whale Hunter. Shares Indie with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
Ride through the ice-covered streets of Moscow in an old-school truck, leaving behind your clumsy competitors. Prepare your car in the garage – collect, buy and replace engine parts, chassis and wheels.
IndieSteam ↗Three Little Bears
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Another title from TBD, the studio behind Essex: The Whale Hunter. Shares Indie and Adventure with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
A great adventure of three little bears. Be the bear you want to be or... be them all. Riddles, puzzles and quite a lot of magic. Three bears, three adventures, one big goal. Can you reach it?
Abyss
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Another title from TBD, the studio behind Essex: The Whale Hunter. Shares Indie and Adventure with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
Abyss is an arcade-adventure game telling the story of a teenager who sets off on a dangerous and obstacle-filled journey. Take part in this thrilling adventure, explore 21 different levels, from the gloomy streets of Łódź to the infernal dungeons.
Narco Tycoon
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Another title from TBD, the studio behind Essex: The Whale Hunter. Shares Indie and Simulation with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
Narco Tycoon is a simulation game about building a drug empire. Manage and develop your own drug factories. Employ the best people in the "industry" and invest in new technologies. Influence local politics, destroy your rivals or take over their business. Become the real Drug Lord!
Roadside Assistance Simulator
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Another title from TBD, the studio behind Essex: The Whale Hunter. Shares Indie and Simulation with Essex: The Whale Hunter.
Roadside Assistance Simulator is an FPP game that will allow you to prove yourself as a road assistance specialist. Get behind the wheel of your mobile auto repair shop, complete orders and earn money to grow your business.
Frequently asked about Essex: The Whale Hunter
- What games are most similar to Essex: The Whale Hunter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Essex: The Whale Hunter are Isle Of Pirates, The Road To Harvest: Food From Across The Ocean, Dreaming Isles.
- Who developed Essex: The Whale Hunter?
- Essex: The Whale Hunter was developed by TBD and published by SIG Publishing.
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