Games like Waves of Steel
If Waves of Steel is your kind of game, the closest matches are War Thunder, Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts and Warwake — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its customizable difficulty, comedic and funny. 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 Waves of Steel: If you like warships but wish they could kickflip, Waves of Steel is for you! Build your own custom warship and embark on a sprawling campaign filled with enemy ships, planes, submarines, and bizarre superweapons. Fast-paced arcade naval action is here!
Players who liked Waves of Steel also play
Steam players who put hours into Waves of Steel 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.
War Thunder
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Top pick for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Waves of Steel.
War Thunder is the most comprehensive free-to-play, cross-platform, MMO military game dedicated to aviation, armoured vehicles, and naval craft, from the early 20th century to the most advanced modern combat units. Join now and take part in major battles on land, in the air, and at sea.
Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts
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Second-strongest match for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Simulation with Waves of Steel.
Design warships the way you want them, command fleets, win the naval arms race for your nation!
Warwake
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Third-strongest match for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Take the helm of a WWII battleship in this naval combat game as you steer, manage your speed, and lay your main guns by hand, fighting ship-to-ship duels where turning broadside triples your guns and doubles the target you present.
AKAGI SKIES
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Ranked #4 for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Tora Tora! is an air combat simulator, based on the conflict of the Pacific Ocean in WW2. An Indie development that aims to bring the player to live the experience of those pilots. through intuitive game dynamics and a special graphic style.
World of Warships: Legends
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Shares ship customization with Waves of Steel.
Ranked #5 for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with Waves of Steel.
Join this free-to-play PvP online naval shooter with fast-paced combat, easy-to-learn gameplay, intuitive controls, and cross-platform play on Steam, console, and mobile. Choose from 600+ warships and 150+ Commanders, and master tactics on diverse maps. Play now and become a legend!
Kamikaze Survivors
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Ranked #6 for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Kamikaze Survivors is a top-down Roguelike where players command, equip, and level up battleships from WW1 to the present day. Participate in the First Blitz on London, Pearl Harbor, and Operation Epic Fury in command of history's most famous warships.
Battlestations Pacific
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Shares mod support with Waves of Steel.
Ranked #7 for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Waves of Steel.
Experience one war through two epic sagas where you will be a part of history or change it. Feel the power of the historically authentic and decisive battles of the Pacific War. Relive some of the grandest and most critical naval battles of recent history and for the first time, choose to lead your fleet to a completely different ending...
Armored Train Warfare
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Ranked #8 for Waves of Steel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Operate a heavily armed armored train in a brutal warzone. Man turrets, manage ammunition, repair damage, upgrade your locomotive, and repel relentless enemy attacks while keeping your train moving through hostile territory.
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DYNASTY WARRIORS 9
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Reviewers of Waves of Steel cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Waves of Steel.
Experience the thrill of one versus thousands in an all new open world setting with DYNASTY WARRIORS 9! Travel through Ancient China depicted on a single, vast, open-world map, master the new State Combo System, and watch the Three Kingdoms story unfold through a cast of 90 playable characters!
TOKYO DRIVE
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Reviewers of Waves of Steel cross-mention this title as a similar play.
"TOKYO DRIVE" is a racing game that uses the location data of actual roads and buildings in Tokyo, Japan (Tokyo's 23 wards).
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Waves of Steel at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Waves of Steel on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Waves of Steel.
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
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Priced ~50% under Waves of Steel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~50% under Waves of Steel on Steam right now. Shares Action with Waves of Steel.
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
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Priced ~50% under Waves of Steel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Waves of Steel on Steam right now. Shares Action with Waves of Steel.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
Liquidators
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Waves of Steel.
Chernobyl, USSR, 1986. Three nuclear plant workers go on a daring mission to prevent a radioactive fallout that would affect half of Europe. Every moment is permanent, and all is at stake.
DFHack - Dwarf Fortress Modding Engine
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Waves of Steel.
Extensions for Dwarf Fortress, including bugfixes, interface improvements, automation agents, design blueprints, modding building blocks, and other tools.
Waves
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
Nazi Zombies
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Waves of Steel.
Nazi Zombies is a cooperative survival game where players fend off escalating waves of Nazi zombies, earning points by killing zombies and repairing barriers to buy weapons, upgrades, perks, and unlock new map areas to maximize their survival.
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Frequently asked about Waves of Steel
- Is Waves of Steel verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Waves of Steel 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 Waves of Steel cost?
- Waves of Steel is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Waves of Steel?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Waves of Steel are War Thunder, Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts, Warwake.
- Who developed Waves of Steel?
- Waves of Steel was developed by TMA Games LLC.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Waves of Steel.
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